According to Tom Lord's Jazz Discography, the French horn in jazz dates back to 1921. By the 1930s, the instrument was popping up on recordings by Bing Crosby and Woody Herman. In the 1940s, Artie ...

Say what? While the French horn is not exactly unknown in jazz—step forward players Julius Watkins and John Graas and orchestrators Gil Evans and Miles Davis, amongst others—it's still enough of a ...

At its best, jazz is hand-tailored music that can be shaped to fit just about any setting. For French-horn master Tom Varner, a concert in the intimate, resonant Chapel Performance Space at the Good ...

Bob French was one of the legends of New Orleans' jazz. French was a drummer, singer and bandleader of the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band. He died Monday at the age 74. And let's take a moment to remember ...

As a seasoned jazz musician, Benjamin Petit is well skilled in the art of impromptu creation. However, there can’t be too many purveyors of the improvisatory art form who combine their evening gigging ...

Montreal is a city of two cultures: French and English, usually commingling, sometimes colliding. In their fight for cultural relevance, they are often at odds. In literature, they call this "two ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

NEW ORLEANS >> Jazz guitarist Raphael Bas says French Quarter Festival is as close as it gets in the U.S. to the music festival he grew up attending with his family in Bourges, France. Bas recalls ...

Jazz Fest’s homepage, unchanged for months, still displays the initial announcement about the 2020 cancellation, which states the “2021 festival will take place April 22-May 2.” When that announcement ...