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 ...
The Bloomington community filled IU Cinema’s auditorium Saturday night for a screening of “ The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit ,” followed by a post-show Q&A with producer and writer Mark Stryker ...
The Huston-Tillotson University Jazz Orchestra brought its East Austin sound to one of the most prestigious stages in the ...
Bassist Ron Carter, a graduate of Cass Tech in Detroit and a member of the pathbreaking Miles Davis Quintet in the 1960s, is the most recorded bassist in jazz history, appearing on roughly 2,300 ...
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, ...
Next-level cover bands, nineties indie folk-pop darlings, and the possible birth of a brand-new genre in the San Diego music scene this week.
The city has its own jazz district this weekend as part of the 11th anniversary Springfield Jazz & Roots Festival, which returns on Friday for two days of music, art, and community in Stearns Square ...
The Downtown Oak Park Business Alliance presents a free Jazz festival on Saturday, March 14, from 1 PM - 12 AM, and on ...
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, ...
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 ...