To celebrate the softer side of jazz, AccuJazz Internet radio has introduced a new channel called “Mellow Jazz." Playing over 1,000 recordings of ballads by great jazz musicians, the channel is ...

Instrumental music, once relegated to being a background sound for certain activities, has evolved to become a key element of ...

Excursions, Opus 20: I Un Poco allegro; Excursions, Opus 20: II In slow blues tempo; Excursions, Opus 20: III Allegretto; Excursions, Opus 20: IV Allegro molto; Four Piano Blue: I Freely Poetic; Four ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X French vocalist Cecile McLorin Salvant. Credit: Spoleto Festival USA French vocalist Cécile ...

John Coltrane wrote “Naima” for his first wife, and it first appeared on his 1959 Atlantic album Giant Steps, on which the tour de force title track re-wrote the book on tenor saxophone playing.

Thelonious Monk’s best-known composition, “’Round Midnight,” was first recorded 80 years ago this month. His slow, moody ballad ranks as among his finest work and one of the most enduring in jazz.

Jazz pianist Michael Wolff put out a two years ago called “Joe’s Strut”. The Joe is Joe Zawinul, a Viennese pianist who was admired by Miles Davis (Joe once turned his invite down to join the band), ...

Beach Fossils' sound evolved quite a bit over the course of the 2010s, from a dreamy ragtag lo-fi to a more mature, immaculately sighing form of guitar-pop. None of that prepared us for the band's ...

The JC Hopkins Biggish Band's debut album, Under a Brooklyn Moon, sounds like a throwback to an earlier time, but its songs are definitely original and grounded in the present. The music features a ...

There has been only a tiny handful of jazz figures so respected by the world at large that they were welcomed as genuine aristocrats. It's been even rarer still for members of Europe's aristocracy to ...