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Cal State Long Beach’s jazz ensemble Pacific Standard Time is getting ready to take their vocals abroad to a place most Americans don’t get to go — Cuba. The backstory: Royce Smith, dean of the ...

Musician Jon Batiste opened a jazz club at Baha Mar in the Bahamas — here's why it's a game changer. Jon Batiste likes warm weather, so when the Oscar- and Grammy-awarded music artist got a call last ...

Whenever the word "Afro-Caribbean" appears in an album's title, there are sure to be plenty of bold and exciting rhythmic passages, and Fiesta at Caroga, recorded by the Afro-Caribbean Jazz Collective ...