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By Beth Wood A veritable hotbed of musical activity, UC San Diego’s Jazz Camp is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary this year. Held on the UC San Diego campus, the camp will run June 26–30. Trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos, who has taught at the camp...

Research says that people imprint on music in their dating years, and carry those tastes with them through the rest of their lives. Lately, this has spelled trouble for jazz music, which is failing to attract new and younger fans in a competitive musical...

Jazz. It’s the music that many men say they like, but don’t actually know anything about. Which is a shame for a whole host of reasons. For starters, jazz has had a major influence on most popular music genres in the 20th century &mdash...

© -  Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved. "A short, model primer on jazz, in which Mr. Williams triumphantly makes a difficult subject seem difficult and absolutely comprehensible. He spells out in an even, shoulder-to-shoulder...

Throughout my adult life I have read extensively on all aspects of Jazz, but the subject that has most interested me the most is the personal struggles of many Jazz musicians. Their stories are wrought with sadness, tragedy, drug addiction, alcoholism...