A new Berlin-based radio station named after jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald is aiming to revive the genres fortunes. As the ...

Jazzdor Berlin is one of the few truly, consistently and enduring European minded and spirited jazz festival events around—an initiative taken by Phillip Ochem, the artistic leader of the Strasbourg ...

Benny Lackner, a jazz pianist and composer based in Berlin, believes that interpreting contemporary songs using melodic hooks and grooves is the new trend in jazz. "All the 20 year-olds that I've ...

Jazz, with its inherent call to freedom, is becoming steadily more popular in Eastern Europe, and a subterranean nightclub here has become the region`s premier jazz showcase. The club, called ...

It's not every day you hear an electric bass played with the old-school verve of an upright acoustic instrument. Jeff Berlin offers a good reason—make that several good reasons—to change that way of ...

Celebrations for the 70th birthday of legendary jazz label Blue Note Records are taking place at an unlikely venue. The Jewish Museum Berlin is tooting its horn with an exhibition of photographs by ...

I was instantly stunned by the original ‘Jazz at the Philharmonic’ series, established in 1945 by the American jazz impresario Norman Granz. I was five years old then and 12 years later was privileged ...

Joyful or sometimes plaintive, the singular tones of jazz fill the concert hall. The audience shouts, “Bravo,” as exotic sounds are made by the sad melody of the daegeum, a large bamboo flute, of the ...

Even by the usual stressful standards of world premieres, the run-up to this one was a particularly nail-biting affair. I attended the dress rehearsal for Marsalis' new work, Swing Symphony, which the ...