Peyroux first began performing popular jazz and blues songs as a teenager in the streets of Paris,France.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

He mixes this with a little jazz and a little blues and adds a Latin sound.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

This week We travel to Louisiana for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival And answer a question about a group of landscape painters.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

This year's additions to the eighth yearly National Recording Registry include jazz and rock songs, rap music and a classic motion picture theme song.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

He was a skillful guitarist who played an energetic mixture of jazz and country songs.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

Beyond the main stage, Cajun,brass bands,gospel,country, blues and folk, with a continuous offering of traditional and contemporary jazz and world music.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

For the first time in its history, the Sirius/XM radio network dedicated one of its channels exclusively to a jazz artist,trumpeter Miles Davis.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

He says whatever you call it, jazz has played a huge role around the world in opening up musical creativity.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

This week, we report about poetry and jazz because April is a special month for both arts in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

Here is some jazz music by the Vince Guaraldi Trio from the television show, "A Charlie Brown Christmas."

VOA: special.2009.10.25

He was a skilled piano player and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet for almost fifty years.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

In nineteen twenty-four, jazz musician and orchestra leader Paul Whiteman decided to organize a special concert to show that jazz was serious music.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

This is the sound of a traditional jazz chord progression: But Miles Davis designed the music on "Kind of Blue" around a modal form.

VOA: special.2010.10.18

Nash studied the works of seven important painters who lived during a one hundred year period, a time frame similar to that of jazz.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

This band's mix of jazz,world music, folk and rock is a perfect fit for the festival.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

John Lewis was interested in jazz,blues,and bebob, a music with a great deal of energy.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

Vijay Iyer is a jazz pianist, composer,producer and bandleader who has received much critical praise.

VOA: special.2010.10.01

Later he learned that the Voice of America wanted to start a jazz program.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

Here is a 1968 recording of Willis Conover and the jazz great Louis Armstrong.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

In nineteen fifty-six, the Modern Jazz Quartet played a series of concerts in Europe.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

And we play music from a new album by jazz drummer Terri Lyne Carrington.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

These are some of the other recordings added to the National Recording Registry: A nineteen twenty-three recording of "Canal Street Blues" by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

Then,he created a jazz composition in seven parts influenced by their art.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

Since then Dave Brubeck has had many different quartets His best known jazz works include "In Your Own Sweet Way," "The Duke" and "Blue Rondo a La Turk."

VOA: special.2009.11.30