Jazz musicians with string ensembles: Perhaps the most famous examples might be Charlie Parker with Strings or Clifford Brown with Strings. On those well known CDs, the string arrangements, while very ...

The College of Music’s Thompson Jazz Studies Program is excited to announce the addition of Applied Jazz Strings—taught by recent alumna and current Jazz Studies Lecturer Enion Pelta-Tiller—to the ...

Charlie Parker With Strings and Clifford Brown With Strings are probably the best-known albums by jazz artists backed by a string section. The concept of placing strings behind a jazz soloist became ...

Welcome to the jazz strings studio at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music! Our jazz and American Roots strings program trains violin, viola and cello students in the essential skills ...

When cellist Tomeka Reid first shifted from classical to jazz as a college student in the late 90s, she didn’t know of many musicians who’d taken similar paths. In 2013 she founded the Chicago Jazz ...

Up next in our series of interviews with notable, in-the-know locals: Tomeka Reid, who hosts the third annual Chicago Jazz String Summit May 12 and 13 at Elastic Arts and Constellation Chicago. What’s ...

American musicians Eddie South, Stuff Smith, Claude Williams and Joe Venuti tucked the instrument under their chins in the very early days of jazz. But it was a European, Stephane Grappelli, who ...

A Grammy-winning guitar trio is headed to the Theatre at Innovative Square.

A little something for everyone — classical music and jazz — are featured this week at the Lorain County Community College Stocker Arts Center. The Black River String Quartet will play in a free ...