From the looks of them, you probably wouldn't peg the four dudes in Toronto-based BadBadNotGood as the group leading a new generation of jazz-drunk hip-hop. But since the band's inception, BBNG have ...

Jazz thrives in cities with history: New Orleans, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago. These cities are also places where you’d expect a new festival to pop up and have success, taking full advantage of a ...

From piano to guitar, these 17 singers know how to play instruments too. Explore how artists like H.E.R. and Beyoncé shaped ...

Classical instruments and orchestrations aren’t unknown in hip-hop music, but nobody mingles those sounds like the Illharmonic Orchestra. On Nov. 22, the New York-based ensemble is playing the Shubert ...

Eddie Moore is trained in classical music, but now he fuses jazz and hip hop. Kansas City pianist Eddie Moore describes his music like this: "rolling down a hill on a bike with no brakes. You just ...

I should’ve known that something was in the air when the first songs I heard at the biggest jazz music festival in the world were by Outkast, Arrested Development, Common, and A Tribe Called Quest. As ...

Hip hop and jazz have a long shared history. In the 1990's artists like A Tribe Called Quest and Digable Planets were introducing younger listeners to jazz musicians like Grant Green and Bobbi ...

Senior year of high school is only as memorable as its soundtrack. For the Class of 1992, it was raining masterpieces our senior year: Nevermind, Use Your Illusion I & II, Achtung Baby, We Can’t Be ...

As a teenage pianist, Shane Dylan frequented Wally’s Jazz Cafe Club. It fed his love of jazz, but also introduced him to new artists and provided a space to play with fellow musicians. “I used to go ...

Separated by decades but bound by spirit, both Black-American art forms thrive on improvisation. Their fusion is conversation, intergenerational and unforced. There’s a scene in The Get Down, ...