Today's Beautiful Music is a rousing concert featuring the United States Coast Guard's Traditional Jazz Band. It's their 2017 Veteran's Day performance on the Millennium Stage at The Kennedy Center.

When singer and trumpeter Anne Linders moved from St. Louis to Boston in 2020, she wanted to put together a new version of her lively traditional jazz band Annie and the Fur Trappers. That proved to ...

That U.S.-hip-sounding line, strangely enough, is as British as “jolly good,” or “raw-ther.” It describes a musical fad that has washed over Britain. “Trad” is traditional jazz, the 1920s variety now ...

The lineup for this year’s Tucson Jazz Festival, as has become the norm, is blessed with a fine balance of well-known names and some that are waiting to be discovered, some traditional jazz bands and ...

Bob Ashman, of Cape May, loves Dixieland jazz but said it was hard to find any good traditional jazz bands in south Jersey. While other clubs did feature other types of jazz music, Ashman wanted to ...

New Orleans’ streets echo with the sounds of brass bands, and iconic venues like Preservation Hall offer an intimate experience with traditional jazz. Also, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival ...

The Secret Six Jazz Band, led by bassist John Joyce, will take the stage April 6 to play the Dew Drop Jazz & Social Hall in Old Mandeville. The band's lineup of musicians rotates, as everyone still ...

Ragbone Saints from San Luis Obispo County and the High Sierra Jazz Band from Three Rivers and will be playing hot swingin’ jazz at the Basin Street Regulars’ Sunday afternoon concert on Jan. 27. The ...

The 50th annual Three Rivers Jazzaffair will be the last. The festival takes place April 10-13 and features 19 bands across three venues. The festival has given out over $200,000 in scholarships to ...

For the past couple of months, OffBeat has posted a survey on our website, just to get an idea of what our readers like, their opinions on political matters related to music, how they use information ...