Every year, people from around the world pilgrimage to a leafy Harlem brownstone on E. 126th Street in hopes of conjuring history. It was there in 1958 that 57 jazz icons, from Thelonious Monk to ...

Max Roach was excited by the premise and promise of rap when it first hit the music scene. Roach was introduced to the burgeoning genre by his godson and hip hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy, and would later ...

Will Grammy Award-winning tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery have a tennis racket on stage when he performs here Wednesday at a concert that will include music by San Diego-bred jazz sax great Harold ...

Jazz and hip-hop are technically different genres of music, but for bassist and composer Giulio Xavier Cetto, the connection between the two is indivisible. “My main goal is to support as a bass ...

The Boston area has produced a long line of world-class musicians — from Aerosmith to New Edition to the next generation being trained at Berklee — so it’s no surprise our music clubs are teeming with ...

As a teenage pianist, Shane Dylan frequented Wally’s Jazz Cafe Club. It fed his love of jazz, but also introduced him to new artists and provided a space to play with fellow musicians. “I used to go ...