Be it progressive metal bands like Tool and Meshuggah or a 19th-century poet who died at 21, jazz artist Tigran Hamaysan mines all kinds of influences to arrive at a signature sound.

"The Jazz Century" is being staged in an ethnological museum, the Musée du Quai Branly, but don't expect a collection of native curiosities from a strange, lost world.

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Shire co-produced “A Different Riff” with Liebman. The composer says at first Minnock recorded one of his songs, “I Don’t Remember Christmas,” as a straight jazz song.

Caelan Cardello fell in love with jazz after learning the "Peanuts" theme as a child. Now he's a finalist for Indianapolis' American Pianists Awards.