STG Presents Starbucks Hot Java Cool Jazz at The Paramount Theatre in Seattle on Friday, March 19, 2010. The successful Starbucks jazz program, Hot Java Cool Jazz, celebrates its 15th Anniversary at ...

In the late 1950s, detective shows were all the rage. Today, the series Peter Gunn, starring Craig Stevens as the titular gumshoe, has faded a bit from popular memory. Its theme music, however, ...

Anyone familiar with the sound of West Coast jazz from the 1950s knows the sound of Los Angeles-born drummer Chico Hamilton. A musician who often emphasized a subtle musical grace in his playing over ...

Hands down the best name for a jazz album is Birth of the Cool. It doesn't make it to The 100 Greatest Jazz Albums of All Time nor is it among the Village Voice's Ten Jazz Albums to Hear Before You ...

For the past decade, on one summer weekend the cool and hot sounds of jazz reverberate through the downtown. The 10th annual Scranton Jazz Festival was no different. On Sunday, for the festival’s last ...

Ahmad Jamal, the pianist and band leader who helped pioneer the influential style that would come to be called cool jazz, died Sunday of prostate cancer at his home in Ashley Falls, Mass. He was 92.

In the late 1950s, detective shows were all the rage. Today, the series Peter Gunn, starring Craig Stevens as the titular gumshoe, has faded a bit from popular memory. Its theme music, however, ...