Sonoma Valley’s integral role in the naming of jazz and its early history will be discussed in a lecture by musician and ...

Few jazz venues have shaped the music quite like The Blue Note in New York City. Since opening in 1981, it has become one of ...

Basie's output during the fifties and the early sixties was staggering, and most of his best albums from that period remain in print, including April in Paris (Verve 2641), Basie (popularly known as ...

On a November night in 2025, drummer Joel Taylor tightened his cymbals to begin a set at 1881, a jazz club perched on the ...

The 27-year-old jazz musician, scholar and radio veteran shares her family's love for jazz at the 55-year-old Minneapolis ...

Saxophonist Kate Olson is releasing "So It Goes" in January, her first full-length studio album under her own name.

Epiphanies come, as epiphanies do, in unexpected and often far-flung settings. For trumpeter Amir ElSaffar, three such ...

Streaming’s algorithms make it easy to avoid whole discographies – so in the interest of deeper listening, our writers dedicate time to the ones who might have got away ...

Mr. Blumenfeld writes about jazz and Afro-Latin music for the Journal and is editorial director of Chamber Music America.

There have been a lot of words to describe good funk music. Dirty. Gritty. Grimy. When done right, funk should make your face scrunch up, your head nod and your body move in ways even you might not ...

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Jazz music always has a way of lifting my spirits. With the stress of finals beginning to sink in, the Jazz Repertory Ensemble’s performance at Voxman Music Building was a welcome relief. As the ...