The first of many specials that Schulz and Guaraldi would collaborate on with Mendelson and animator Bill Melendez, A Charlie Brown Christmas came together in just six months. “We brought Vince ...

VARIOUS ARTISTS, “Verve // Remixed Holiday”: This expanded edition adds five new tracks. DJs Tourist, Ginton, Bolden and more ...

Holiday playlists change every year, but a handful of Christmas records from the 1950s and 1960s still feel like the season’s ...

The 1960s offered a soundtrack for a decade of immense change, producing tunes that have managed to stick in our heads for decades. These songs are more than just oldies; they are cultural artifacts ...

Playing jazz alone on piano might sound hard, but it’s simpler than you think. With a few key techniques, you can make one instrument sound like an entire group. This lesson shows you how to do it ...

Gabrielle Ulubay is a Music writer at Collider. She has previously been published in The New York Times, Bustle, HuffPost Personal, and other magazines, and wrote at Marie Claire for nearly three ...

It is rare to hear a vocalist who makes you feel every note in your heart, but WashU has one right in its music department: Candice Ivory. Ivory, who is a teacher of jazz and contemporary voice, ...

D’Angelo, who died Tuesday at the age of just 51, was indisputably a musical genius, but he didn’t leave much behind: Just three studio albums and an under-the-radar live disc over the course of two ...

With a band name that bespeaks fluid motion in the general direction of ascent, Smooth Elevator has set a high bar for itself. But the international trio of guitarist Will Bernard, bassist Danilo ...

Nica is the timeless social club Austin’s been missing. Named after British-born jazz patron and Rothschild baroness, Kathleen Annie Pannonica de Koenigswarter — whose nickname was "Nica" — the new ...

I’M JENNIFER BAILEYS, OUR FRIENDS WITH DESTINATION SMOOTH JAZZ ARE HERE TO TELL US ABOUT THE EVENT. FIRST, INTRODUCE YOURSELVES AND LET’S TALK ABOUT THIS AMAZING EVENT. I’M MARK BURTON, EXECUTIVE ...