SALT LAKE CITY — Patricio Caumont may be a big soccer fan. In his native Uruguay, as in the rest of South America, it's far and away the top sport, practically coursing through everybody's veins. But ...

The bossa nova wave was one of the first significant impacts on jazz since Miles Davis, Claude Thornhill and Gil Evans restored balance between the ensemble and the soloist in the late 1940s. As ...

This remarkable ensemble, created by Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute (WMI) in 2018, annually brings together 22 of the most outstanding teen jazz musicians from across the United States to train ...

The country has a rich, original relationship to jazz, with American techniques layered into regional traditions and rhythms. Explore 50 years of recordings picked by musicians, poets and writers. By ...

Ever since I heard the Argentine saxophonist Gato Barbieri back in the Seventies, I've been fascinated by musicians from South America who found their way to jazz. Lately there seems to be a strong ...

1:00-2:00 PM- Virginia MacDonald (Clarinet) with Small Group X (with support from the Humanities Council's Fund for Canadian Studies) 2:15-3:15 PM- Michael Rodriguez (Trumpet) with Small Group A (with ...

At 64, McCoy Mrubata is a commanding presence on the South African jazz scene. A Cape Town native who now resides in Johannesburg along with his wife and four children, Mrubata has won many awards and ...