Gary Bartz is nobody's jazz musician. What he has built and created as an artist with a career that spans six decades defies labels, especially ones that have storied racist connotations and otherwise ...

What does finding an authentic musical voice in a genre so deeply connected to history and geography mean? The answer for Danish double bassist, composer, and educator Kenneth Dahl Knudsen is to ...

A new fellowship announced this week gives 20 jazz musicians $100,000 each, no strings attached. Just one stipulation: They have to be at least 62 years old. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation came up ...