Peter and Will Anderson, with their sensational jazz quintet, whisk audiences to the streets of Paris and the French countryside with rollicking swing and hot gypsy jazz. With a set list filled with ...

According to Tom Lord's Jazz Discography, the French horn in jazz dates back to 1921. By the 1930s, the instrument was popping up on recordings by Bing Crosby and Woody Herman. In the 1940s, Artie ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

“Jazz was an integral part of the artistic scene that centred around the St-Germain-des-Pres. So it was only logical that the young, new wave directors made films by day using the same music they ...

Even if you don’t know psychedelic French jazz-funk legends Cortex by name, you have probably know have probably heard elements of their 1975 album Troupeau Bleu. Tracks from it have been sampled by ...

The Les Haricots Rouges jazz combo is due to appear at the New Orleans Festival at the Tel Aviv Museum from November 27-29. Norbert Congrega just wants us to smile. That’s not too much to ask for, is ...

New Orleans — Bob French, a third-generation New Orleans musician who led the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band for more than 30 years and was well-known as a disc jockey on WWOZ, died Monday from ...

Scott Tixier takes a swig of his coffee, sits back in his chair and reflects on the tremulous start of his music career in New York, in a thick French accent that somehow makes it all sound more ...

NEW ORLEANS — For the past 19 years, Chris and Bill Stotesbury have traveled from their home south of London for the French Quarter Fest along with a large group of fellow jazz enthusiasts. For most ...

TOO. WELL, THIS WEEK THE COMMUNITY WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO PAY ITS RESPECTS TO NEW ORLEANS SINGER AND BASSIST GEORGE FRENCH, WHO PASSED AWAY LAST WEEK AT THE AGE OF 81. FRENCH BEGAN HIS CAREER IN THE ...