Photo provided Indiana University jazz professor and professional musician Sam Butler, along with IU-trained performer, composer and arranger Garrett Fasig, were commissioned to create jazz ...

Yoko Miwa is a fixture in the Boston jazz scene. She’s a piano professor at Berklee, an internationally acclaimed touring ...

Of all the folk songsters from the 1960s, Mitchell has proven to have the strongest influence on jazz singers. Joni's Jazz features her collaborations with stars like Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock.

Joni Mitchell, Canadian-American icon of folk music and champion of the singer-songwriter genre, released “Joni’s Jazz,” a four-part collection of new and old music, on Friday, Sept. 5.

This was shaping up to be a banner year for Boston singer John Minnock. He had finished a new album, “A Different Riff: Minnock Sings Shire," that found him collaborating with noted film and theater ...

Aficionados, and her fellow musicians, considered her one of the best living vocalists. But she chose not to seek a bigger spotlight.

San Rafael native Jackie Ryan didn’t set out to sing jazz. Her early tastes ran toward soul singers like Gladys Knight and Sam Cooke, and she spent seven years touring the country with an R&B revue ...