Gary Fukushima

Let’s keep going to concerts. Let’s continue to write and perform music, to make things that bring us joy and bring us together....

Thanks to its 2017 music director, celebrated jazz pianist Iyer, the 71st edition of the classical music festival looks to be one of its most diverse and boundary-pushing yet....

At the Bootleg in Echo Park and ETA in Highland, jazz is finding two new, unconventional homes in Los Angeles....

We spoke to several jazz artists, including some who worked on the soundtrack, to find out what the Oscar-nominated fllm got right — and where it missed the mark....

It's considered by many to be music's sexiest instrument. Its versatile sound, so like a great singer's voice — sweetly seductive one moment, growling and blustery the next — has become virtually synonymous with the entire genre of jazz. Yet less than a century ago, the saxophone was considered a......

The 85-year-old head of UCLA's jazz studies program, who has played with Coltrane, Gillespie and Goodman, celebrates 20 years at UCLA with a special concert on Saturday, Dec. 3....

Since reopening in a new, larger space earlier this year, the tiny but legendary jazz venue founded by Billy Higgins has been revitalized....

For a number of years, Anthony Wilson would walk or bike regularly from his home in Northeast Los Angeles into a little-known neighborhood between the 5 freeway and the L.A. River. Elysian Valley (or “Frogtown,” named for the hordes of Western toads who used to hop out of the river)......

When asked about the importance of music to communities like the South Side of Chicago or South Central Los Angeles, alto saxophonist and MacArthur "Genius Grant" recipient Steve Coleman pauses. “We often use words like ‘community,’ but it’s really ‘people,’ and I try to never forget that." Coleman grew up......