This spring, PBS Kids is introducing preschool children to jazz music concepts and important life skills through the new series of music videos Acoustic Rooster: Jazzy Jams. Based on bestselling ...

"Organic Unity" the approximate center point of the Acoustic Jazz Quartet’s new recording Organic, fairly well sums up in an aural sense the constantly evolving vision of this fine West Coast quartet.

Jazz is littered with examples of starry duos aligning in one-off recording projects that do not quite match expectations. Often the lack of real spark comes down to too much deference being shown.

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

The latest in the author’s Acoustic Rooster franchise, a PBS Kids special and series aim to teach children the beauty of collaboration and improvisation. By Laurel Graeber In 2010, the poet and ...

Flemington DIY has launched a series of monthly jam sessions including jazz, bluegrass, and the more structured acoustic players. Participants may also attend and just watch and listen. Third ...

The electric guitar is the alpha instrument in rock music, but there have been plenty of great acoustic songs as well.