Classical music and jazz. They’re like jealous siblings who deep down love each other, but just can’t stop rowing in public.

The names of Johann Sebastian Bach, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff do not necessarily conjure images and sounds of jazz in one's mind, that is until one has listened to recordings by ...

Since the appearance of jazz in the early 20th century, jazz and classical have mostly lived on opposite sides of town, separated by tracks that most listeners won’t cross. This has long remained the ...

Jazz people like to brag that their idiom is “America’s classical music.” But if you catch some of them in a certain mood, you’ll find that they long to merge their art with what much of the Western ...

Gunther Schuller leads the NEC Jazz Orchestra in rehearsal in Jordan Hall, 1990. Schuller coined the term "Third Stream" when referring to the genre that blends classical and jazz. From jazz to ...

ASPEN ” “Blue Notes,” Aspen Music Festival’s theme for this year, celebrates the mutual influences of jazz and classical music. This hits close to home for me, as these are my two favorite forms of ...

People tend to listen to various kinds of music over the course of the day: rock at the gym, jazz on the drive home, maybe a little Vivaldi while waiting at the dentist’s office for the root canal.

Throughout jazz history there has been a desire among the jazz community to see the music respected on the same level as western classical music. It is after all, jazz is America's classical music. As ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Apparently the difference between playing at Blue Note or David Geffen Hall is hard-wired into musicians' brains, making it difficult for even incredibly talented musicians to ...

In early November, a trio of top-notch classically trained musicians took to the stage in front of a full house. With William Ransom accompanying on piano, tenor Timothy Miller and soprano Bethany ...

In early November, a trio of top-notch classically trained musicians took to the stage in front of a full house. With William Ransom accompanying on piano, tenor Timothy Miller and soprano Bethany ...