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 ...

Annie and the Fur Trappers headline the Bay State Hot Jazz Festival in Medford this weekend. Their front woman spoke to GBH Music about the magic of ‘20s jazz, and what to expect at the free festival.

The musicians seated closest to him nodded their acquiescence, but a few others were too busy chatting between numbers to have heard, and had to be shushed by their fellows. As Mazzy began quietly ...

A trad band has to do with traditional jazz music that really is associated with New Orleans. Honestly, I have mixed feelings about it in this sense: It is true that the music started and was ...

The Austin Traditional Jazz Society welcomes back La Grosse Tete. Formed in early 2013, this New Orleans Jazz inspired band share their love for traditional jazz with music lovers and dancers all over ...

He is a 10-time Grammy winner, recipient of the Latin Grammys' Lifetime Achievement Award, and was honored at the Kennedy ...

With the Grammys coming next week and the Oscar nominations out, I've been thinking about the ways the culture industry — including writers like me — throws things into buckets in order to see what ...

Come see why Broadway World named The Bryce Edwards Frivolity Hour one of the ”not to be missed,” best cabaret shows of 2024, ...

The new Jazz Jubilee Central Coast Festival is making its way through San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties for the next week and a half. The series brings together local jazz bands, swing ...

Annie Linders fell in love with traditional jazz while riding a boat down the Mississippi River. There are other ways, other places to fall in love with traditional jazz, but none of them are nearly ...

Growing up in Chicago, Amir ElSaffar’s most vivid contact with Iraqi culture came through food. Though his mother’s ancestors settled in America during the 1600s, she had learned to prepare the ...

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 ...