Bolton’s Eagley Jazz Club is one of the six places in the North West you can hear live traditional or trad jazz. 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 ...

Eagley Jazz Club, which is a not-for-profit organisation run by volunteers, will host Manchester Jazz! at its next club evening. It will be held on Monday, November 17 at Dunscar Conservative Club, ...

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 ...

Together with Kenny Ball and Acker Bilk, he was one of the 'Three B’s' who defined traditional jazz in Britain and spearheaded the 'Trad' revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Barber had briefly ...

For years, purist fans of traditional New Orleans jazz have worried their favorite music is a dying art form. Oh, sure, something like trad jazz, loud and frenetic with a side helping of street funk, ...

For decades Sacramento was known as the “epicenter” of traditional jazz. The city hosted one of the world's largest trad jazz festivals, originally called The Old Sacramento Dixieland Jazz Jubilee, ...

Queen Esther, a trad jazz vocalist, strikes a pose at Ginny’s Supper Club in Harlem. About sixty years before car stereos filled New Yorkers’ public lives with music, early jazz bands kept us humming ...

Nickel-A-Dance, a concert series now in its 25th year and sponsored by the New Orleans Jazz Centennial, will return for five Sunday afternoon concerts at The Maison on Frenchmen Street. The entire ...

Music lovers are gathering through the weekend for the Danny Barker Banjo & Guitar Festival, a celebration honoring the life and contributions of the New Orleans jazz legend. As his legacy is ...