In the jazz up and comers of today the hallmarks of improvisation, musicality, humanity and depth are very much present. From Annahstasia to Aron!, here are seven new artists keeping the spirit of ...

Monk embodied jazz’s highest calling: to sound radically like yourself. “Father Flanagan,” a song composed and played by the great Barry Harris, is one of my favorite songs highlighting the ...

Tough to find any guitar lead jazz album that is smoother than that capture. No one song is necessarily my favorite “jazz guitar” song, but being this is Kevin’s second release as a label, it showed ...

It directly informs so much hip hop and electronic music, and we frequently hear ... speaking from a personal standpoint, my favorite jazz albums of 2024 offered a type of escapism that nothing ...

Coltrane’s rendition of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s “My Favorite Things.” A regular had recently shown Coltrane the sheet music one night at the Jazz Gallery, a club on St ...

Berkeley. "My favorite place to have delicious vegetarian pizza and listen to great live jazz music. You can find it by the long line up the street. Or you can come and hear me sing standards on ...

Chicago-based guitarist Bobby Broom is one of my favorite jazz guitarists and, thankfully, a fairly regular performer at The Jazz Kitchen, as he was on August 17, 2024. On this occasion ...

Mentioned or ignored, all the artists appearing in this article are worthy of a listen. A return to Japan to enjoy music at my favorite jazz kissa is long overdue. Billy Taylor’s Interlude, purchased ...

One of my favorite parts of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is what happens ... The blocks around it swell with festgoers and live music from the adjacent porch. If it were any more ...