When the music becomes too complex, it no longer functions well as popular music, and the converse is also true— when it gets too simple, it loses its ability to capture and hold the attention of a ...

Saying that a piece of music is lyrical presupposes a quality that is hard to define. You know what it is until you need to explain it. The Cambridge Dictionary says that it means: "expressing ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Brad Mehldau, described as one of the most lyrical and intimate contemporary jazz pianists of his generation, will return to St. Cecilia Music Center on Nov. 30. He'll perform with ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century of American music, ...

It is not every day that a Santa Barbara–bred musician releases an album on the mighty and venerable ECM Records label. Come to think of it, has there been any such day? As of this month, Santa ...

Steven Boyd, a nationally known teacher of jazz dancing and a choreographer who founded his own dance ensemble, was found dead July 25 in his home in Tomball. He was 47. The cause of death has not ...

When jazz was in its infancy, people thought of it as music—if they regarded it as music at all—that was invariably loud, fast and rambunctious. From the beginning, “to jazz something up” meant to ...