Those who crowd into the Hollywood Bowl for the JVC Jazz Festival know what to expect: a marathon injection of so-called smooth jazz. And with one refreshing exception during this edition, there was a ...

There are a few things you can count on the Chicago Jazz Festival to do: balance programming to reflect the music’s breadth and long history, commission original music from some present or past ...

Kicking off on Saturday and running through Aug. 11, the Stanford Jazz Festival will present today's top jazz artists in 32 concerts and special events, designed to showcase the full spectrum of jazz ...

While last year's opening session of the Playboy Jazz Festival looked like a bellwether for the future -- celebrating the surge of African and Latin influences in jazz -- this year's opener pointedly ...

Will the Utah Jazz ever fade? Lately the team has given its critics a resounding "NO," maintaining a one-game lead over the San Antonio Spurs in the Midwest Division, and winning eight of their last ...

Calling attention to last year's underappreciated jazz recordings is akin to posting a snow warning for Mount Everest. The jazz albums that sneak onto critics' year-end lists in high-profile ...

Today's jazz scene is a scattered mess. No longer the focal point of American pop culture (or even the soundtrack for Kerouac-inspired rebellion), jazz has branched off in so many different directions ...

Tommy Flanagan's self-effacing nature, as a man and an artist, tended to keep undue praise at bay. Still, it can be said that with his death last month at the age of 71, jazz lost its most ...