Saxophonist Bob Mintzer, a New Yorker who left home long ago to see the world, is a professor of Jazz Studies at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music and chief conductor of ...

The Grammy Award-winning vocal group New York Voices celebrates its 25th anniversary presenting their first full live album with New York Voices Live offering a collection of past favorites and brand ...

Vince Mendoza won a Grammy for his arrangements of Joni Mitchell’s reinterpretations of standards for orchestra and he has also worked with Joe Zawinul and Bjork. Here he is in very different terrain, ...

STEPS Ahead founder Mike Mainieri has been enjoying expanding the long-running fusion outfit’s music lately. In June the vibraphonist joined the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra for a Steps Ahead ...

Early in the first set of a two-night/four-show run at Birdland by the WDR Big Band, its musical director, Bob Mintzer, gave the capacity crowd a brief bit of background on the ensemble we were ...

Performing in the U.S. for the first time in decades, Germany’s WDR Big Band, with musical director Bob Mintzer, will be among the featured artists at the 58th annual Elmhurst University Jazz Festival ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Maestro Hendrik Meurkens isn't just an acclaimed artist, whom we have all ...

Hersch often works in small settings, either as a piano soloist, or in a duo or trio. But he amplifies his message on his latest album by teaming up with Germany's WDR Big Band. This is FRESH AIR.

Pianist composer Bill Laurance loved Brad Mehldau's record The Art of the Trio and listened to Radiohead and Roni Size as a teenager which, he says, is reflected in chords on the middle section of ...

The four-piece New York Voices celebrate their 25th anniversary in grand style with this stunning recording made in 2008. Working as an ensemble or individually, their voices are completely integrated ...