It’s late at night in a smoky 1950s New York City nightclub, and Bird Parker is onstage. You’re mesmerized by the impossibly brilliant music cascading from his horn as you sip your gin—but what can ...

To establish its architecture in the growing field of licensable DSP, Improv Systems Inc. today will introduce the second-generation version of its Jazz core. The new core, executives said, will allow ...

Given what Mozart initially improvised in his head and what he later wrote out are one and the same, the listener will derive equal satisfaction listening to Mozart spontaneously invent at the piano, ...

It was nice to finally, after all these years, have the opportunity to sit down with the celebrated jazz pianist Jan Lundgren and talk about what it actually is that we do as jazz musicians when we ...

Trumpeter Kris Tiner is waxing esoteric, describing how he and his partners in the Mears/Tiner/Kikuchi/Johnson Quartet play free jazz. “It is more like the liquid ...