mDecks Music, a leader in innovative music education resources, has released a groundbreaking new book series dedicated to mastering jazz standards. This comprehensive collection provides musicians ...

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. Some of what we now call jazz standards originated on Broadway, while others were initially ...

Virtually every band plays a few cover songs. Some play nothing but. In the jazz world, the term "jazz standard" is code for a classic song that's been covered many times by many artists over the ...

Looking back over the hundreds of jazz albums that have crossed my desk this year, it's clear that many things stay the same. That's not a bad thing: Jazz is rooted in deep traditions that have ...

Though women have always played a leading role as jazz performers, they have seldom gotten the credit they deserve as writers. Jazz drummer, composer/producer and three-time Grammy winner Terri Lyne ...

The term “standard” seems antithetical to something as freeform and limitless as jazz. But, time has proven that these songs are not rigid at all. The only strict parameter is the lyrics, and yet ...

An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's acclaimed compendium of jazz standards, featuring 15 additional selections, hundreds of additional recommended tracks, and enhancements and additions on almost ...

We are two female jazz singers, jazz researchers and lovers of jazz. And we have discovered jazz gave us another shared experience – sexism. We’d both experienced garden variety sexism. Wendy was ...

The SFJAZZ Collective performs at the Jazz Standard in New York, October 2012: (L to R) Edward Simon, Stefon Harris, Robin Eubanks, Matt Penman, Avishai Cohen, David Sánchez, Miguel Zenón and Jeff ...

Like a lot of people right now, I’m grieving the loss of one of New York’s most popular jazz clubs, the Jazz Standard, which announced on December 2 that it would not be reopening in the basement ...