Jon Batiste

An extra day and the lure of an appearance by the Rolling Stones pushed attendance at the 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival to a half a million people, organizers said on May 6.

That was the second highest attendance in the festival's history — just behind the 600,000 attendees in 2001. In 2023, more than 460,000 people passed through the festival's gates.

Pop powerhouse Taylor Swift on Sunday made Grammy history by winning her fourth Album of the Year award for "Midnights" — the most ever by any artist.

With her record-breaking triumph, the 34-year-old surpassed music icons Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder with the most wins of the top Grammy.

The "Barbie" power ballad "I'm Just Ken" and AP and Frontline's documentary "20 Days in Mariupol" just got one step closer to an Oscar nomination.

Jon Batiste wears so many hats he may need a closet for them all; recording artist, bandleader, musical director, film composer, museum creative director, and scion of New Orleans musical royalty. The multi-instrumentalist won five Grammys on April 4 and despite being on TV all week, not many people may know fully.

Industry watchers had tipped pop superstars as the likely big winners at Sunday's Grammys -- but jazzman Jon Batiste instead was crowned king, taking home five awards including the prestigious Album of the Year prize.

Music's legends and hitmakers turned out on April 1 to honor Joni Mitchell, the Canadian-born folk icon behind classics including "A Case Of You," at a charity gala that featured moving tributes and glassy eyes.

The top names in music will gather on April 3 to honor their own at the Grammys, now in its 64th edition, with pop juggernauts joining jazzman Jon Batiste as the leading nominees.

The Grammy music awards will be held in Las Vegas for the first time this April after being postponed because of the surge of Omicron-variant COVID-19 cases across the United States.

The 64th annual Grammys, featuring nominees including Justin Bieber, Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo, had been due to take place in Los Angeles on Jan. 31.

The 21st Istanbul Jazz Festival, which kicked off on July 1, will introduce “Jazz in Parks,” a new project aiming to bring together accomplished jazz musicians at outdoor venues throughout Istanbul.

The Jazz in the Parks’ event will take place at Nişantaşı’s Arts Park club, which has two open-air stages, on July 5 at 6:00 p.m.