Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk—all jazz greats had to start somewhere. For those locally who want to get great, the Milwaukee Jazz Institute has been offering programming since 2020.

Jazz is complex music that even some professional musicians have difficulty playing. Yet somehow, jazz-band teachers create new jazz musicians out of youngsters who just a few years earlier knew ...

Although there have been jazz violinists ever since the music began, formal jazz education programs in schools usually are set up to cater mostly to trumpets, trombones, saxophones and rhythm sections ...

Aretha’s Jazz Café is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Sunday educational jazz jam sessions. The weekly sessions, led by Scott Gwinnell, provide a mentored learning environment for musicians of ...

After a seven-year hiatus, Saturday morning music lessons have returned to the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. The Birmingham music hall and arts nonprofit has restarted Saturday Jazz Greats, its longtime ...

Whether they’re swinging to the tunes of Duke Ellington and Count Basie, making a Brazilian samba come alive, or simply laying down a heavy funk groove, the musicians of the “Superband” (as director ...

In this final article of the series on India's evolving jazz landscape, we examine the growing role of contemporary Western music education in shaping new generations of musicians. For generations, ...

The future of jazz is bolstered by the fact that many school and university music programs teach jazz. Learning to playing any musical instrument is hard, but playing jazz is the ultimate challenge.