Performing was predestined for Tom "TomCat Trumpet" Burke. Growing up around musicians and the touring lifestyle as the son of a Broadway musician, Burke spent his early years moving around the ...

In a quiet backyard nestled in the Sherman Oaks hills, seasoned jazz musician Larry Goldings begins to play the punchy opening notes to Van Halen’s “Jump” on his prized melodica. Standing beside him ...

Alto saxophonist Charles McPherson has a reputation as one of the last true followers of the bebop tradition but this release shows that his talents stretch beyond that. The music consists of scores ...

To date, the Latin dance album that holds the record for sales remains Tito Puente's Dance Mania. Recorded in November and December of 1957 and released in early 1958, Dance Mania was the first ...

A whole lot of soul is the goal every time Giordano Dance Chicago commands the stage. The award-winning, Chicago-based jazz dance company even has its own technique: the Giordano Technique, which is ...

Big bands were built in the 1920s and ’30s to blast young dancers with layers of rhythm, but creative composers seeking a larger canvas have kept the form alive. Hear 12 big selections. By Giovanni ...

Jazz Music and its Choreographies of Listening -- "Its Bite and Its Feeling" : The Quadroon Ball and Jazz's New Orleans Plaçage Complex -- "Lindy Hopper's Delight" : The Chick Webb Orchestra and the ...

The dance troupe has influenced generations of artists and continues to captivate audiences worldwide. The dancers are technically assured, individual, and, more than most, attuned to their inner ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Reggae, house, step, ballet, tap, jazz: Listen to the sounds that have inspired great choreographers. In the past we’ve chosen the five minutes or so ...

When Alvin Ailey's seminal dance work Revelations was first performed in 1960, it was about twice as long as the version that's now been seen by millions of people around the world. The company that ...