The flute is one of the more overlooked instruments in jazz, but it’s been making an impact on improvised music for more than 50 years. Let 10 experts take you on a guided tour. By Giovanni Russonello ...

Detroit-based jazz vocalist Olivia Van Goor serves as the bandleader for "Holiday Jazz Duets with Olivia Van Goor & Reuben Stump" on Dec. 14, 2024, at Merrimans' Playhouse in South Bend. SOUTH BEND — ...

Tony Bennett loves to sketch. It’s something he’s done since the age of 5, when he would do chalk drawings on the sidewalk in Queens, where he grew up. During one recording session for “Cheek to Cheek ...

That collaboration between Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett finally got a release date. The pair arrived at Today this morning (July 29) in a white Rolls Royce to announced that their jazz duets album, ...

Around halfway through a set during his Blue Note residency last Thursday, André 3000 took some time to survey his tools. The musician crouched over a rug arrayed with around a dozen varieties of the ...

It's a flute-off. In November, rapper and classically trained flautist Lizzo challenged Will Ferrell to a jazz flute duel. His "Anchorman" character Ron Burgundy accepted in January. She pulls a flute ...

*Flute-playing soul-jazz phenomenon Ragan Whiteside has releasesed a brand-new single titled “Off The Cuff” on the Randis Music label (scroll down to HEAR it). The flirty new groove, co-written by ...

It's easy to make the case for a symbiosis between wine and jazz but harder to sound persuasive when arguing that the perfect accompaniment to listening to jazz on a crisp autumn afternoon is a nice ...

The flute is one of the oldest known instruments, but it gets little respect. Ever since Neanderthals held cave-dwelling jam sessions on perforated bear bones, humanoids have panned the instrument's ...

SOUTH BEND — Merrimans’ Playhouse presents “Holiday Jazz Duets with Olivia Van Goor & Reuben Stump” at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 14 at 401 E. Colfax Ave., Suite 135. According to a press release, vocalists ...