Types of Jazz: Every Jazz Genre and Subgenre Explained
What You’ll Learn in This Guide A plain-language definition of jazz and why it resists a single category All 16 major types of jazz music, explained in chronological … Read more
Terence Blanchard: From New Orleans Trumpet to the Metropolitan Opera
Terence Oliver Blanchard (born March 13, 1962, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and educator. Blanchard has won eight Grammy Awards, scored more than 80 … Read more
Jazz Instruments: The Complete Guide to Every Instrument in Jazz
Jazz instruments are the specific acoustic and electro-acoustic instruments, including trumpet, saxophone, double bass, piano, drums, trombone, guitar, clarinet, flute, vibraphone, and organ, that form the core vocabulary … Read more
Karl Berger’s Stone Workshop Orchestra
Karl Berger: Vibraphonist, Educator, and Creative Music Pioneer Karl Berger spent six decades proving that improvisation is not chaos — it is conversation. Born in Heidelberg, Germany in … Read more
Dayramir Gonzalez: Award-Winning Cuban Jazz Pianist and Composer
Dayramir González is a Grammy-nominated Cuban jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and educator from Havana, Cuba. As a leading voice in Afro-Cuban jazz today, he bridges Cuban rhythmic traditions … Read more
Grammy-Winning Terence Blanchard Composed Original Music for Broadway’s A Streetcar Named Desire
Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard composed the original musical score for the 2012 Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. Directed by Emily … Read more