When Hanna Cesario picks up a ukulele, musical magic flows out of her fingertips. She’s a little bit jazz, a little bit blues and a little bit tropical — but she’s simply a girl who grew up loving ...

Lyle Ritz, in the studio with Ray Charles. Lyle Ritz has logged over 5,000 sessions on the bass as a studio musician. But for his latest project, he wanted to figure out a way to make music on a ...

"Aloha, everyone!" is Cynthia Lin's cheerful greeting to start her ukulele instructional videos which have compiled millions of views on YouTube. It is like a dear friend's individual welcoming. Her ...

Years ago, an interviewer asked ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro whether there was any song he couldn’t play. “If you can hum it, you can play it on the ukulele,“ Shimabukuro said. The interviewer ...

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. Some of what we now call jazz standards originated on Broadway, while others were initially ...