Grammy and Emmy award-winning bassist Endea Owens and her band, the Cookout, dazzled Bowker Auditorium with an evening of jazz on Friday, Feb. 7. Owens would go on to win a Grammy Award for her work ...

When Delfeayo Marsalis brought his sharp, party-timing, and abidingly swing-empowered Uptown Jazz Orchestra (UJO) to the Lobero Theatre last Friday, it was more than just a Mardi Gras week soiree.

*Larry & Alphonso “Fonce” Mizell enjoyed an out-of-nowhere run in the `70s as producers of loosely arranged musical nuggets that felt good, painted in broad strokes lyrically, and became bedrock ...

Herbie Hancock, who at 85 years young is one of the elder statesmen and authorities of jazz, says jazz is a spirit. Though traditions of the genre remain consistent through the decades, jazz has also ...