“Komorebi” is a mid-tempo bop workout with soloists trading licks in a relaxed pulsating groove. “Petrichor”, which is a hint ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After much consternation, I’ve managed to pare down a long list of fine jazz-improv recordings from 2025 to a top 10. So, apologies to Marshall Allen, The ...

The achievement ranked the ensemble as the nation's top jazz band from a historically Black college or university and the top ...

If you think about it a certain way, one of the defining qualities of jazz is earnestness. This is one of the reasons why jazz and metal have so much in common, and so often appeal to the same ...

Jazz is music made in the moment and our moment is an increasingly perilous one. As a writer trying to keep up, I often feel as if I’ve exhausted the power of words to describe where we are, how we ...

DANBURY -- Think of some of the greatest jazz musicians of the past half century -- Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan, ...

NORTHAMPTON You know your jazz festival isn’t “missing a beat” when Downbeat Magazine — considered by many as the best jazz magazine in the world — pays attention to you. “Mention the word ‘festival’ ...

Trumpeter Pharez Whitted returns to the Jazz Showcase, Angel Bat Dawid pays tribute to W.E.B. Du Bois at the Harris Theater, ...

So... what kind of a year was 2025 for jazz? Well, it marked the centennial of saxophonist Gene Ammons, drummer Roy Haynes, critic Nat Hentoff, pianist Jutta Hipp ...