Lou Donaldson released almost 50 records during his time as a jazz musician, and he started all the way back in 1954. As of 2024, Donaldson is 97 years old.

There are not many young guys around who are interested in playing the old unconfined jazz. Music has survived some strange invasions but we’ve done an awfully good job of being relevant for qui ...

Allen said jazz music is just as important today as it was when he was starting out. The routine of preparing for a show and testing his instruments never seems to get old for Allen, who turns 101 ...

Jordan Mobley, a 24-year-old jazz composition major at Santa Fe College, has also been a musician for most of his life. Mobley has been drumming for 20 years and uses a “laid-back” approach ...

An old saxophone rests in its balding velvet-lined case. The worn keys seems fragile, the screws maybe loose, the metal tarnished. It’s on loan from local jazz musician Tom Hall, in an exhibit ...

While Detroit offers no shortage of jazz music venues, there aren’t many that can take audiences back to the genre’s original time period. But the Detroit Historical Museum’s “Jazz in the ...