Happy Jazz Appreciation Month, a fitting time for music critics to name their pick for the greatest jazz song of all time.

This has been the year that musicians collaborated and cross-pollinated, experimented within and outside jazz. Best of all, some of the more avant-garde musicians seemed to find value in sculpting ...

The history of jazz music is told in hundreds of cities from coast to coast in America. From the cradle in New Orleans and the Mississippi River delta, the great migration of Black Americans northward ...

And that’s only a sample of shows on “Neighborhood Jazz Night,” which takes place April 28 as part of UNESCO International ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After much consternation, I’ve managed to pare down a long list of fine jazz-improv recordings from 2025 to a top 10. So, apologies to Marshall Allen, The ...

I always wanted to write how Miles Davis talked: abrupt, profane, contemptuous, in a stiletto rhythm that jabbed and stung and threw off unexpected sparks of enlightenment and tenderness. Of course, ...

If you think about it a certain way, one of the defining qualities of jazz is earnestness. This is one of the reasons why jazz and metal have so much in common, and so often appeal to the same ...

Universal Music Group‘s Global Classics & Jazz division has launched Everything Jazz, a new digital platform and online store ...

Rising young talents and revered veterans helped take jazz to a multitude of exciting new destinations in 2025. But the most notable debut album of the year, the aptly titled “New Dawn,” came from a ...

Tickets for the Monterey Jazz Festival’s 69th year will go on sale Friday. Also available will be a three-day package for the ...

With Local Note jazz club expected to open in downtown Evanston within months, ʼCats will have more opportunities to hear ...