The Santa Monica College Music Department wraps up the 2025 Fall Friday Night Jazz Series with the Peter Erskine Quartet, ...

George Prado turned 70 last week. "And I can still carry my bass to the gigs," he said, laughing. Prado has been carrying his bass - his upright bass - to the gigs for more than 50 years. Born at home ...

You may have seen the 2014 documentary Jaco, produced by Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo. It's an astonishing tale, which follows Jaco Pastorius from his early life through to stardom with Weather ...

With Chamber Music America, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park will present an evening of jazz performed by Rising Star jazz vocalist ...

Jazz bassist, composer and educator Ray Drummond died on November 1, 2025 at the age of 78. Drummond can be heard on hundreds ...

Pianist, composer and lyricist, Dave Bass, is a great American success story that reads like a riveting bio-pic script. This Cincinnati kid began piano lessons at age seven, and shortly after ...

Isaac Mingus originally wanted to follow his father and study the clarinet when he was a kid. But his Pine View Orchestra director told him that with a name like Mingus – as in the jazz great Charlie ...

Anthony Jackson, one of the most versatile recorded bassists in music history and creator of the “contrabass guitar,” died in Staten Island.

The two genres are, on the surface, very different from one another, and yet, the humanity and creativity that shines through across time and space speak to something else at play here... Jazz and ...