Instrumental music, once relegated to being a background sound for certain activities, has evolved to become a key element of ...

It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing — all you’ve got to do is stagger your timing. For decades, fans of jazz music have debated why some songs have swing — the characteristic swaying ...

When jazz pianists are improvising riffs, their brains act much more like the dreaming brain, with inhibition turned down and creativity cranked way up, a new study finds. It seems almost a ...

There’s a popular myth that divides people into “left brain” and “right brain” categories, whereby the former are analytical and logical, while the latter are creative and innovative. The reality, of ...

Thank you for your interest in the jazz studies program at Sacramento State. To learn more about our jazz degree offerings, entrance auditions, ensemble placement auditions, performing opportunities, ...

Music and language seem to be processed in the same part of the brain, a new study has found. Researchers studied the brain activity of 11 male jazz pianists while they engaged in a spontaneous ...

And it seems that in 2025 there was not only an abundance of new jazz releases, but the quality bar was raised again, with the bellow 11 albums, listed in artists’ alphabetical order, are among those ...

hundreds of people will descend on Greenwood Community High School to get a taste of jazz this weekend. Dozens of high school and middle school students will break out their instruments and show off ...

Saxophonist Vincent Herring has worked with a variety of jazz legends including Horace Silver, Freddie Hubbard and Jack DeJohnette. He will perform with the Sac State Faculty Jazz Ensemble in a free ...