It’s the first weekend in May, which means a happy, toe-tapping jazz concert will be performed Sunday afternoon at the United Methodist Church. The program will be the 10th annual concert of hymns and ...

This is an excellent debut for Dreyer. On it, he shows both a strong sense of composition and arrangement, but it is his bass playing that always stands out. He has incorporated many influences in his ...

Whether it's meant deliberately or not, the cover image for Hymns in a Jazz Mood, vol. 2 is a pretty apt illustration: the simple church building is central, but doesn't need to be at the front and ...

Bertha Caroline Lyles, whose soprano voice and memorable renditions of jazz classics and hymns earned her the sobriquet of the “Song Bird of Sandtown,” died Jan. 18 of heart failure at Sinai Hospital.

Tigran Hamasyan won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition in 2006, but the music that resonates even deeper for him is centuries removed — and a sound world away — from jazz. In ...