Penelope Keep ’28 offers backstage memories from Stanford Jazz Orchestra's concert last week and previews an energetic jazz ...

Roberta Flack, who inspired generations of singers with her subtle folk/jazz/blues storytelling that captured romance.

To many, composed music and improvised music seem to be opposites, but in jazz, they merge in a unique fashion. It has been said that the best improvised music sounds composed, and that the best ...

No Jazz Messengers, no Blue Note. It’s like that. When one thinks of the careers that were born from the Messengers (or Art Blakey’s 1954 Quintet) and who recorded for the label, during or ...

In “Farm Fresh Jazz (notes from a saxophonist)” Penelope Keep ... setting a lovely tone for the music ahead. Faux candles flickered on cloth-covered tables, while purple and red lights ...