For too long, British jazz artists of the 1950s have been viewed unfairly as dandified lightweights by American jazz fans. There always has been plenty of love for George Shearing, Marian McPartland, ...

The UK brass group pay tribute to the British jazz legend’s music with a wide ranging set of bebop, cool jazz, and the Latin ...

Peter Ind was a British jazz double bassist and record producer. Ind was born in Middlesex. His father was a builder. Ind began to learn the violin at the age of eight and played in his school ...

Cleo Laine, a British jazz, pop and classical singer who received Grammy nominations in all three of those categories, has died. Her family announced the news today. She was 97 years old. Laine was ...

Hermeto Pascoal, the innovative Brazilian composer famed for his blend of jazz and traditional music, has died at the age of ...

Cleo Laine, considered by many to be the U.K.’s preeminent jazz singer, and an accomplished theater actress in her home country as well as on Broadway, died Thursday at age 97. The death was announced ...

Cleo Laine, an English singer who moved easily among musical genres with a dazzling vocal range of almost five octaves and who nurtured a dual career as an actress, performing in musicals and dramatic ...

The very first Newport Jazz Festival in 1954 included London-born pianist George Shearing. The next year, his fellow British pianist — and future NPR host — Marian McPartland was on the bill. More ...