At age 76, George Griffin, a local jazz pioneer, knows drumming. These days, Griffin lives in a Rainier Valley housing complex for seniors of limited income. The slow movements there are a long way ...

Audiences will get to hear two stories – one haunting, one playful – told over a jazz melody at the New Mexico Highlands ...

Last month, the Yale Undergraduate Jazz Collective organized a pilot program offering free jazz lessons to a set of Yale undergraduate students from all musical backgrounds. The program offers remote ...

Babatunde Lea's latest album is seeing greater success than any other in his four decades of playing jazz. By last week, "Suite Unseen: Summoner of the Ghost" had spent seven weeks among the College ...

Former Lyndhurst Police Chief Rick Porrello worked, beginning as an 18-year-old, as the drummer for the band of famed entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. The Cleveland Heights High graduate traveled the world ...

There is a lot going on at Donn Bennett Drum Studio in Bellevue in the next week. Original CHICAGO drummer Danny Seraphine, jazz great Winard Harper and swingster Donny Osborne will all be here. Space ...

Davis Rogan entered the Homer Plessy classroom like he was walking onto a stage, jovially greeting the third graders before taking a seat at the keyboard. In seconds, they had launched into the "Mardi ...

San Jose, Calif., -- Enter Music Publishing, publishers of diverse, hip drum/percussion magazine worldwide, has made available its January 2008 Issue of DRUM! In its interactive edition at drumdigital ...

Jack DeJohnette died of congestive heart failure on Sunday, Oct. 26, in a hospital in Kingston, N.Y. He was 83.

While the originations of the dhol are not known with complete certainty, what is known is that it is a sound that has migrated. Sunny Jain After composing and transcribing music for my wedding day, ...