In this episode of Backstage Sonoma, host Steven Roby sits down with the core members of The Smooth Jazz Alley—keyboardist and producer Marco Montoya, drummer and producer Kevin Lewis, and saxophonist ...

Event producer James Taylor says the August festival will balance global award-winning acts with hometown talent.

Jazz goes back to the 1930s in the "Paris of the East" and though the heydays are a haze of nostalgia, Shanghai is again a magnet for jazz musicians. This month fusion and smooth jazz are featured.

The City of Clermont is hosting its first-ever Clermont Art & Jazz Fest, a two-day celebration of world-class jazz, visual ...

CALL HIM POP. Call him jazz. Call him, if you must, a smooth operator. But whatever you do, don’t call the music that trumpeter Chris Botti makes smooth jazz. “We’re not smooth jazz,” Botti says, ...

The more I explore the jazz, fusion and experimental music scene of Chicago, the more apparent it becomes that it is way underrated. It's easy to think of it personified by the Art Ensemble of Chicago ...

Jazz, with its roots in African American culture and its ability to constantly change, has made a wide array of styles over the years. From its origins in New Orleans to its global impact today, jazz ...

Have you ever heard a Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone in the 1840s? It is a versatile woodwind instrument known for its smooth, expressive sound. Saxophonists are musicians who use the smooth, ...