Michel Portal, a French pioneer of European modern jazz and a prolific writer of film music, has died aged 90, his agent said ...

According to Tom Lord's Jazz Discography, the French horn in jazz dates back to 1921. By the 1930s, the instrument was popping up on recordings by Bing Crosby and Woody Herman. In the 1940s, Artie ...

New Zealand-born jazz trumpet player Lex French, hailed by Radio Canada jazz critic Stanley Pean as “an extraordinary trumpeter,” is fast becoming a bright star on the Canadian jazz scene. French ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

French singer, Chloe Perrier has just released a new album: Petite Fleur with her band, the French Heart Jazz Band! The French Heart Jazz band is a mix of French chansons and American jazz standards ...

Julius Watkins, jazz’s first major French horn player, would have been 100 years old this weekend. It naturally fell to D.C.’s only major jazz French horn player — 27-year-old Abe Mamet — to mark the ...

George French, the versatile and prolific New Orleans jazz and rhythm & blues bassist and vocalist, died Aug. 28 of complications from COVID and cancer at a care facility in Metairie, his son Gerald ...

Peter and Will Anderson, with their sensational jazz quintet, whisk audiences to the streets of Paris and the French countryside with rollicking swing and hot gypsy jazz. With a set list filled with ...

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival gave itself an out, then opted not to take it. Contracts often stipulate that the festival must pay deposits to bands 60 days before opening day. Jazz Fest’s ...

Bob French was one of the legends of New Orleans' jazz. French was a drummer, singer and bandleader of the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band. He died... Jazz Musician Bob French Dies At 74 (SOUNDBITE OF JAZZ ...