Val Lemen had no idea that the singer who auditioned for his jazz band years ago would some day become his wife. It was back in 2009 that Lemen was on keyboard along with Chris Brown on tenor sax.

This weekend in central North Carolina, an adventurous music festival will pursue an explicit goal: to get more people to listen to jazz. The event is easily the biggest production to date from the ...

For those who don't quite get East Coast cool jazz or why it's special, I have two words for you: Half Nelson. The song, credited to Miles Davis, was first recorded for Savoy in 1947 by the Miles ...