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 ...

Discover four innovative records from artists including Thundercat and Adrian Younge that stretch the definition of jazz for ...

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The history of jazz music is told in hundreds of cities from coast to coast in America. From the cradle in New Orleans and the Mississippi River delta, the great migration of Black Americans northward ...

Rising young talents and revered veterans helped take jazz to a multitude of exciting new destinations in 2025. But the most notable debut album of the year, the aptly titled “New Dawn,” came from a ...

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Master jazz improvisation, syncopation, and blue notes through the lens of New Orleans history. From Congo Square to Chicago, ...

The are many annual jazz festivals around the world, but the one known to millions as simply Jazz Fest is the one held every ...

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 ...