This week it’s time for the Best Jazz Albums of 2023, or maybe more precisely, the jazz albums I enjoyed the most and played the most over the last 12 months. Counter to some of the trends in the ...

Where jazz is concerned, the 2010s could be divided almost precisely in half: BK (Before Kamasi) and AK (After Kamasi). The burly LA saxophonist's triple album, The Epic, was released on May 5, 2015, ...

Jazz was all over the place in 2022. I mean that as a compliment, and with an intended double meaning: We saw some great examples of improvisers flowing through the culture, and we also heard ...

Grammy-nominated saxophonist embraces role as elder statesman ahead of Dec. 4 performance at Universal Preservation Hall in ...

Sick of winter? Based on the e-mails I've been receiving from readers over the past two days, you're not alone. To help cheer you up, I offer you my final top-10 list of jazz songs with spring in the ...

A decade ago, the Manchester CT Jazz Festival was designed to bring top musical talent to Manchester’s Cheney Hall theater. Just as importantly, it was conceived as a fundraiser for Manchester’s Beth ...

Literature, philosophy and all that jazz, indeed. For nearly a decade, virtuoso jazz pianist and Duke literary scholar Maya Kronfeld has maintained a dual career of music and literature where she ...

Newspaperman Bruce Fessier chronicled an amazing story in 1982 as told to him by his friend Irving Mills. By then, Mills had retired to a big house in the south of Palm Springs and would regale ...

Here’s a winning strat for living your best Jazz and Heritage Festival life this weekend in New Orleans. The annual Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans is a truly epic celebration of music, art ...