They weren’t too familiar with the musician, but they knew his song. When David Benoit’s rendition of Linus and Lucy leapt from the keyboard, about 200 kids danced in their seats. Some even stood up.

Imagine what it would have been like to be at the very first New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival or Florida's Seabreeze Jazz Festival. Now is your opportunity to be able to say you were there when it ...

CALL HIM POP. Call him jazz. Call him, if you must, a smooth operator. But whatever you do, don’t call the music that trumpeter Chris Botti makes smooth jazz. “We’re not smooth jazz,” Botti says, ...