The photograph shows the hero of this tale, Roger Glenn, sometime in the late 1940s when he was five or six, learning to play ...

Being nominated for a Grammy Award is an amazing accomplishment — especially when it happens more than once, as one University of Massachusetts Amherst professor knows. Ben Barnett, an adjunct faculty ...

Jazz legends joined Chuck Mangione in Rochester for an eight-hour benefit that raised over $50K for Italy’s 1980 earthquake ...

The trombonist’s collection features bebop music recorded across sessions between 1953 and 1955.

Live At Smoke Nate Chinen’s informative sleeve note claims that the late Al Foster was born in 1943 but The New Grove ...

When Devin Booker exited Monday's game against the Lakers, all looked to be lost for the Suns. But like a Phoenix from the ashes, an unlikely hero, Collin Gillespie, dropped a career-high 28 points to ...

PHOENIX -- There were plenty of questions surrounding the Phoenix Suns' backcourt and how it would function moving into the 2025-26 season, though Collin Gillespie's provided plenty of answers.

AMHERST — University of Massachusetts Amherst jazz trombone faculty member Benjamin Barnett says receiving news of his second Grammy nomination was a lot like ...

Verve’s Straight From The Vault series revisits Dizzy Gillespie’s Sonny Side Up—a 1957 hard bop classic featuring Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt—beautifully reissued on AAA vinyl by Optimal. This hard ...

AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – UMass jazz trombone faculty member Ben Barnett has secured his second career Grammy nomination, recognized in the Best Latin Jazz category as a member of The Afro Latin Jazz ...

The duo joins Kal Penn, Booboo Stewart and Nicole Elizabeth Berger in the directorial debut for the Emmy-nominated producer Artisha Mann-Cooper. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief They join Kal Penn ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - If the Port City had a soundtrack -- the Excelsior Band would top the list. The marching jazz band has been playing in Mobile since 1883. This weekend they were playing for Frank ...