Jazz is music made in the moment and our moment is an increasingly perilous one. As a writer trying to keep up, I often feel as if I’ve exhausted the power of words to describe where we are, how we ...

It’s been a good year for jazz, diverse in every way—styles, influences, tastes, and demographics too. I didn’t aim the list to turn out this way, but four of the albums’ leaders are women, and five ...

It may be coincidence, or just a reflection of my own state of mind, that this dreadful year’s list of favorite jazz albums leans toward the meditative, the balladic, the Romantic, sometimes the Zen, ...

Following up on 2024's outstanding Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic), vibraphonist Brennan shows no signs of slowing down on Of the Near and Far, an enigmatic and gripping release which highlights ...

DANBURY -- Think of some of the greatest jazz musicians of the past half century -- Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan, ...

Essentially Ellington once again brought the world’s best high school jazz musicians to New York. Over the last 30 years, the event has reshaped how jazz is taught. The atmosphere was festive at the ...

NORTHAMPTON You know your jazz festival isn’t “missing a beat” when Downbeat Magazine — considered by many as the best jazz magazine in the world — pays attention to you. “Mention the word ‘festival’ ...

Trumpeter Pharez Whitted returns to the Jazz Showcase, Angel Bat Dawid pays tribute to W.E.B. Du Bois at the Harris Theater, ...

The Fort Mose Jazz & Blues Series returns Feb. 6-15 to St. Augustine’s Fort Mose Historic State Park. The lineup of ...