Award-winning jazz bassist, educator and mentor Hayden, at age 68, is today the youngest recipient of Detroit’s highest arts ...

A cornerstone in the Metro Detroit jazz community, musician and educator Marion Hayden is the recipient of the 2025 Kresge ...

Hayden is the youngest Kresge Eminent Artist at age 68 and the second recipient to have also received a Kresge Artist ...

Ain’t None of Them Play Like Him Yet” explores the profound impact a white kid from Iowa who died at age 28 had on the ...

When Mary Lou Williams arrived at Duke in 1977 as the University’s first artist-in-residence, she was already an icon in the ...

MSU jazz studies director Rodney Whitaker was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in September.

Chappell Roan nodded to painter Edgar Degas with her look at the 2025 Grammy Awards on Sunday in Los Angeles. The singer dug ...

At age 32, he was promoted to director of jazz studies ... and Whitaker has an eye toward developing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree. But the early days at MSU were not easy for him.

The long-gone attraction, which ran from 1975 to 1986, is the subject of a new book, Knott's Bear-y Tales: The Complete ...

Charles McPherson Quintet featuring Terell Stafford at Murry's At age 85, the Joplin native and saxophone stalwart continues both to innovate and provide a bridge to jazz's manifold history.

ICONIC cartoon characters Charlie Brown, Snoopy and their Peanuts pals may not seem a likely springboard for jazz, but ...