It seems at last the banjo's long winter (or perpetual summer, perhaps) may be over. With such practitioners about as Eugene Chadbourne, Joe Morris and Brandon Seabrook (to name a few), the plucky ...

Oregon natives like to tell visitors, “If you don’t like the weather, just wait a few minutes.” A similar admonition applied Sunday at the second day of the Playboy Jazz Festival: If you didn’t like a ...

Pianist Marcus Roberts is a legacy man. His music – his jazz – celebrates the genius of Duke Ellington, Scott Joplin, George Gershwin and Jelly Roll Morton, but always with an original signature. He's ...

Texas is a guitar-loving state. From T-Bone Walker to Stevie Ray Vaughan and on to Gary Clark Jr., Lone Star State string slingers are front, center and in the spotlight. Howard Elkins sits in the ...