Bassist Victor Wooten's book The Music Lesson is a tour de force, a bold and courageous exploration of how to shift one's consciousness and engage the world from a nonordinary perspective. This is not ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. There is the old joke "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" The ...

Since 2023, the Napa Valley Unified School District has contracted with Benicia-based In Harmony Music to provide music ...

Frank J. Barrett, a professor of management and global public policy at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., is also a jazz pianist who has led his own trios and quartets and traveled ...

Trombone at the ready, head cocked slightly to the right, Joe Giordano is listening hard to his big band mates during a rehearsal of "Tiptoe," a Thad Jones tune that's bright, crisp and swinging, all ...

Saxophonist Wayne Shorter has had a long and storied career in jazz. He played hard bop with Art Blakey, explored new styles with Miles Davis and pioneered fusion with his group Weather Report. Music ...

Last month, the Yale Undergraduate Jazz Collective organized a pilot program offering free jazz lessons to a set of Yale undergraduate students from all musical backgrounds. The program offers remote ...