Like sidewalk superintendents, jazz fans like to watch and listen to a clicking combo even if they know little about what is actually going on. The least among the initiates can watch a hot lick go ...

A toe-tapping tune with a quick tempo began as soon as the clock struck 1 p.m. on a recent Saturday at the Norris Center in downtown Naples. Clarinet, trumpet and banjo solos rang throughout the hall ...

Manhattan recording studios last week were rocking to the loose-jointed two-beat tempo of slap bass and honkytonk piano, the syncopated blast of gutbucket trumpet, tailgate trombone and high-flying ...