I suspect a resourceful academic could make a career out of tracing the genealogies of the dishes sold at New Orleans Jazz Fest. I’d read a book of histories on the festival’s soups alone. You can ...

CATSKILL — A cultural exchange program by the award-winning Catskill-based Planet Arts recording label will bring a handful of Tunisian jazz artists to Catskill this spring for a week of musical cross ...

Listening to Brahem's new CD, Le Pas Du Chat Noir, it's easy to hear what the 45-year-old composer is talking about. As in much of the famed American pianist's work, Brahem's beautiful melodies, ...

“The kind of gig you watched and prayed would never end, charged with such magic that you knew you would be telling people about it in years to come.” —Straight No Chaser Tunisian-born singer and oud ...

Q. How did the idea of collaborating with Zakir Hussain and Niladri Kumar for this concert emerge? A. Last summer, I had the pleasure to collaborate with Zakir Hussain on Sounds Of Mirrors for three ...

There are other great Messenger albums, but this may be the perfect combination of great personnel and the greatest bop tune of all time. Dizzy Gillespie's "A Night in Tunisia" has been done almost to ...

It's quite a stretch to call this CD the very best, since all of the music was recorded between 1946 and 1949. Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993) was one of the leaders of bebop but also forged an important ...