The Modern Jazz Quartet continued to perform all over the world for sold-out crowds until the late nineteen seventies.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

One reason the Smithsonian picked April to honor jazz is because many great jazz artists were born this month.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

For example, in South Africa, Cape Town's jazz festival included performances by more than forty international and African jazz performers.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

He says whatever you call it, jazz has played a huge role around the world in opening up musical creativity.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

When repairs are not possible, Pat Metheny returns to what he is famous for --- simply great jazz guitar.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

This week, we report about poetry and jazz because April is a special month for both arts in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

The twenty-five year old plays jazz that is influenced by the sounds of funk,soul, samba and blues music.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

For the United States, one of the most successful public diplomacy efforts of the late twentieth century was the Jazz Ambassadors programs.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

He is the youngest jazz instrumentalist ever to perform at Washington's Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and at the White House.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

Here is some jazz music by the Vince Guaraldi Trio from the television show, "A Charlie Brown Christmas."

VOA: special.2009.10.25

Through the years, John Lewis worked with some of the biggest names in jazz,including trumpet player Miles Davis.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

Every year thousands of bands and fans travel to the southern state of Louisiana for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

Alexander Kuzin wants to know about Willis Conover's jazz programs that were heard for 40 years on VOA.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

Over the years, they have been sung and played in every possible way -- from jazz to country.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

In nineteen twenty-four, jazz musician and orchestra leader Paul Whiteman decided to organize a special concert to show that jazz was serious music.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

It was the result of hours of recorded discussions with New Orleans jazz great Jelly Roll Morton.

VOA: special.2010.01.25