In a recent essay in Commentary, Terry Teachout, arts and culture critic for the Wall Street Journal, makes an argument for the date on which the jazz era officially ended and the rock/pop era ...

On “Short n’ Sweet” last year, the singer became one of pop’s new queens of quirk. On its follow-up, “Man’s Best Friend,” she’s hiding behind her characters. By Jon Caramanica A tempestuous new work ...

Laufey (pronounced lay-vay) grew up in Iceland as a multi-instrumentalist kid prodigy, schooled in classical as well as jazz. Now, living in L.A., she’s one of our unlikeliest as well as most talented ...

Chuck Mangione is an American flugelhorn player, trumpeter, and composer, best known for his smooth jazz sound and crossover ...

David Bennett (of David Bennett Piano) and I decided to each make a video about the influence of jazz on popular music. Here's my take on it. United, Frontier CEOs Offer Major Warning to Travelers ...

Laufey Lin, a 24-year-old Icelandic musician and songwriter (known by the mononym Laufey to her fans), never dreamed that her music, which she started writing while she was a college student in Boston ...

The Virginia Arts Festival this week announced the latest addition to its 2023-24 season: Laufey. An Icelandic-Chinese singer-songwriter, Laufey (pronounced lāy-vāy) fuses jazz and pop. Her influences ...

The jazz singer Kate McGarry already had one Grammy nomination in 2009, when she arrived in Durham from New York with Keith Ganz, her partner in music and life, who grew up in the area. She’s earned ...

With the Grammys coming next week and the Oscar nominations out, I've been thinking about the ways the culture industry — including writers like me — throws things into buckets in order to see what ...

Seoul, Korea—With nearly 25 years of profound long listed accolades under his belt, the legend and creator of the “New Jack Swing Genre" has been non-stop producing, performing, composing and ...

Jazz musician Chuck Mangione, who had one of the biggest pop-jazz instrumental crossover hits of all time with “Feels So Good” in the 1970s, died Tuesday at age 84. The death was reported by multiple ...