Mellon Awards $6.5M to Institutions Advancing Jazz Scholarship and Storytelling. Posted in “Award / Grant” column. Published: November 13, 2025 @ All About Jazz ...

Welcome to the Thompson Jazz Studies Program at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music! CU Boulder jazz ensembles offer students exposure to a variety of jazz styles through the rehearsal ...

When jazz pianists are improvising riffs, their brains act much more like the dreaming brain, with inhibition turned down and creativity cranked way up, a new study finds. It seems almost a ...

Music and language seem to be processed in the same part of the brain, a new study has found. Researchers studied the brain activity of 11 male jazz pianists while they engaged in a spontaneous ...

If there seems to be an air of pretension among aficionados of jazz and classical music, psychological research is giving them good reason. A new study published in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences ...

We thought it would be a fun exercise to conduct various searches on jazz and compile the results. What are the defining characteristics of jazz? After all the searching, only a handful of elements ...

under-recognized Black female jazz performers and composers. Dr. Angela M. Wellman is an award-winning musician, scholar, educator, and activist. As a third-generation musician, Wellman has performed ...

Oberlin College and Conservatory benefactors and jazz lovers James R. and Susan Neumann have made another gift to the school to support one of the quintessential American art forms. The conservatory ...