Annie Ross summoned the spirits of departed jazz legends in a performance of her song "Music Is Forever," providing an emotional highlight at the annual NEA Jazz Masters Awards Ceremony. The 79-year-old Ross, among the early practitioners of "vocalese" on songs like her "Twisted" — in which ...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Acclaimed trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, arguably the world's most prominent jazz musician, is set to premiere a major new project -- composing a Blues Symphony for orchestra. In keeping with a career that spans jazz, classical music, band leadership and high-profile advocacy for the arts, Marsalis' symphony is epic in scope -- to celebrate American history from Revolution to the ...