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 ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - An encore from the best jazz band in the world was held Tuesday night. Memphis' Central High School held its spring concert on the heels of its jazz band winning an international ...

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 ...

Before she won three Grammy Awards as a jazz singer, the teenaged Cécile McLorin Salvant had many musical favorites — including the Backstreet Boys, the Spice Girls, Pearl Jam, Mariah Carey and ...

For almost half a century, the Atlanta Jazz Festival has gathered crowds in Piedmont Park over Memorial Day weekend to groove to the sounds of snapping snares, brassy trumpets and sultry singers at ...

The Central High School jazz band performs at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater on Saturday, May 10, 2025, at the 30th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival. (Photo: ...

So... what kind of a year was 2025 for jazz? Well, it marked the centennial of saxophonist Gene Ammons, drummer Roy Haynes, critic Nat Hentoff, pianist Jutta Hipp ...