Welcome to the Thompson Jazz Studies Program at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music! CU Boulder jazz ensembles offer students exposure to a variety of jazz styles through the rehearsal ...

A piece of a western Massachusetts estate was repurposed in the 1950s as a musical haven. Listeners spent summer nights with ...

A decade ago, the Manchester CT Jazz Festival was designed to bring top musical talent to Manchester’s Cheney Hall theater. Just as importantly, it was conceived as a fundraiser for Manchester’s Beth ...

The jazz program offers a wide range of ensemble opportunities in jazz, world and popular music. All instruments and all majors are welcome to audition and participate.

When jazz pianists are improvising riffs, their brains act much more like the dreaming brain, with inhibition turned down and creativity cranked way up, a new study finds. It seems almost a ...

Music and language seem to be processed in the same part of the brain, a new study has found. Researchers studied the brain activity of 11 male jazz pianists while they engaged in a spontaneous ...

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