SOUTH BEND — Singer Gabrielle Goudard performs her project “The French Quarter” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13 at Merrimans’ Playhouse, 401 E. Colfax Ave., Suite 135. With Meghan Stagl on piano and ...

Paris has always embraced and celebrated jazz. Starting after World War I, jazz musicians flocked to Paris to play this new, unique sound unfamiliar to the French. Post-World War II, Paris welcomed a ...

Martial Solal, a French Algerian jazz pianist who honed his fleet-fingered style alongside American musicians in postwar Paris and became a master of mood-rich improvisations that included the pulsing ...

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 ...

YOU CAN. WELL, SOME SAD NEWS THIS AFTERNOON. NEW ORLEANS SINGER AND BASSIST GEORGE FRENCH HAS PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 81. FRENCH BEGAN HIS CAREER IN THE TRADITION OF HIS FATHER, THE LATE ALBERT PAPA ...

TOO. WELL, THIS WEEK THE COMMUNITY WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO PAY ITS RESPECTS TO NEW ORLEANS SINGER AND BASSIST GEORGE FRENCH, WHO PASSED AWAY LAST WEEK AT THE AGE OF 81. FRENCH BEGAN HIS CAREER IN THE ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The term “Gypsy jazz” can be considered offensive. The term “jazz manouche” is a more contemporary term, but this article contains some references to the other term in direct quotes and ...