Musicians both established and up-and-coming stretched themselves in fresh ways over the last year, creating poignant moments of collaboration and challenge. By Hank Shteamer In 2024, jazz continued ...

It didn’t take long after its release on August 17, 1959, for Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue to ascend to a throne it has yet to vacate in all of the decades that have followed. With its scepter, came a ...

This has been the year that musicians collaborated and cross-pollinated, experimented within and outside jazz. Best of all, some of the more avant-garde musicians seemed to find value in sculpting ...

Fergus McCreadie and friends are driving Scottish jazz to ever greater heights, writes Jim Gilchrist Fergus McCreadie: Stream (Edition Records) Storm, the opening track of multi-award-winning pianist ...

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Since 1959, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences has awarded the greatest achievements in music. Originally called the Gramophone Awards, the Grammys have become synonymous with the ...

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, ...

Even if you aren’t actively seeking out jazz, it’s inescapable. It directly informs so much hip hop and electronic music, and we frequently hear it popping up in punk, metal, and indie rock too. It ...