Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

New Orleans — Bob French, a third-generation New Orleans musician who led the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band for more than 30 years and was well-known as a disc jockey on WWOZ, died Monday from ...

The term "creole" is one of those protean things whose meaning hinges on the context in which it is used. At the very least, it tends to suggest some degree of acculturation or multiple ethnic ...

If the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band can bring as much unvarnished energy to its playing as leader Bob French does to a telephone interview, it will be a bracing performance. French seems to remember ...

The Les Haricots Rouges jazz combo is due to appear at the New Orleans Festival at the Tel Aviv Museum from November 27-29. Norbert Congrega just wants us to smile. That’s not too much to ask for, is ...

Amid the myriad holiday club gigs, concert performances, and jazz parties, the Iridium was the scene of a serendipitous collaboration between Cyrus Chestnut and Kevin Mahogany. Cyrus led a trio that ...

Mr. Solal, who also wrote music for films and symphony orchestras, was revered in Europe and hailed in the United States on his rare visits there. By David A. Andelman Reporting from Paris Martial ...

Michel Portal, a French pioneer of European modern jazz and a prolific writer of film music, has died aged 90, his agent said Sunday. A multi-instrumentalist at home with the clarinet, saxophone and ...

George French, the versatile and prolific New Orleans jazz and rhythm & blues bassist and vocalist, died Aug. 28 of complications from COVID and cancer at a care facility in Metairie, his son Gerald ...