Five-decade review catalogs 1976 albums that shaped music and sustained influence. Genre range spans punk, arena rock, soul, ...

The 2026 HSL Properties Tucson Jazz Festival returns Jan. 16 through 24 with concerts, education, and free events across ...

Rising young talents and revered veterans helped take jazz to a multitude of exciting new destinations in 2025.

The Local announces its Winter/Spring 2026 season, featuring global music, jazz standouts, and boundary-pushing performances in Saugerties.

Katchie Cartwright's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025 article by Katchie Cartwright, published on January 3, 2026 at All About Jazz.

Of course you’ve missed some great stuff since 1985! A lot of you weren’t even born then! Not only has the advent of digital ...

If your Christmas wish list included the music lineup for the 2026 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, you're in luck. UPDATE: The lineup is out. See it here. Producers of the festival revealed on ...

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 ...

It’s been a good year for jazz, diverse in every way—styles, influences, tastes, and demographics too. I didn’t aim the list to turn out this way, but four of the albums’ leaders are women, and five ...

A decade ago, the Manchester CT Jazz Festival was designed to bring top musical talent to Manchester’s Cheney Hall theater. Just as importantly, it was conceived as a fundraiser for Manchester’s Beth ...

Alabama’s Jazz McKenzie made a triumphant return to “The Voice” on Monday night, delivering a stunning performance in the Knockouts. McKenzie, 31, has been absent from the NBC reality series for a few ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade's end, ...