The French Riviera isn’t famous only for its Cannes Film Festival and rose wine. It also hosts one of the world’s oldest jazz festivals in Nice — an event that dates to 1948. Yank music impresario and ...

In 1957, Quincy Jones moved to Paris. There, he studied with Nadia Boulanger, a French composer who educated numerous expatiate American composers and bandleaders. As Boulanger told Jones, “Your music ...

Henri Texier is a French jazz double bassist born in Paris. He is perhaps best known for his 1960s work with Don Cherry and for his 1980s band the Transatlantik Quartet, which featured Joe Lovano, ...

Françoise Hardy, a French actress and singer who had a number of hits in the 1960s with songs like “Tous les garçons et les filles (All the boys and girls),” has died at the age of 80. She also ...

For nearly two decades, Varner has argued passionately--through his recordings and performances--for the role of the French horn in jazz. With “Second Communion,” he achieves a breakthrough, moving ...

Barney Wilen,59, the French pioneer of 1960s “free jazz” and a sizzling saxophonist who once toured with Miles Davis, died of cancer Saturday in Paris. He became a big name in the 1950s and enjoyed a ...