The French Riviera isn’t famous only for its Cannes Film Festival and rose wine. It also hosts one of the world’s oldest jazz festivals in Nice — an event that dates to 1948. Yank music impresario and ...

The term "creole" is one of those protean things whose meaning hinges on the context in which it is used. At the very least, it tends to suggest some degree of acculturation or multiple ethnic ...

Montreal is a city of two cultures: French and English, usually commingling, sometimes colliding. In their fight for cultural relevance, they are often at odds. In literature, they call this "two ...

According to Tom Lord's Jazz Discography, the French horn in jazz dates back to 1921. By the 1930s, the instrument was popping up on recordings by Bing Crosby and Woody Herman. In the 1940s, Artie ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Martial Solal, a French Algerian jazz pianist who honed his fleet-fingered style alongside American musicians in postwar Paris and became a master of mood-rich improvisations that included the pulsing ...

Rock n’ roll veteran Iggy Pop (who graced our cover two years back) has announced the release of a jazz-influenced album entitled Préliminaires (French for ‘foreplay’). The record, released through ...

When the word “beat” is used in the context of the arts, it’s usually in reference to the Beat Generation writers: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, and William S.

Claude Bolling, a French jazz pianist and composer whose work can be heard in over 100 films, died on Dec. 29 in Garches, France. He was 90. Bolling’s representatives announced his death on his ...