The fest, in its third year, is largely the vision of San Diego Jazz Ventures' Daniel Atkinson, who wanted to launch an event ...

Big bands were built in the 1920s and ’30s to blast young dancers with layers of rhythm, but creative composers seeking a larger canvas have kept the form alive. Hear 12 big selections. By Giovanni ...

Jazz, with its roots in African American culture and its ability to constantly change, has made a wide array of styles over the years. From its origins in New Orleans to its global impact today, jazz ...

Offering,” a piece from “Expression,” the last album that John Coltrane conceived before his death in July 1967, begins like a balm. Over luminous piano chords from his w ...

September is the city’s unofficial jazz month, and there’s still plenty of world-class music to be heard with events in ...

The 15th annual Northampton Jazz Festival is taking place this weekend, featuring live music across multiple city venues rain ...

It's taken some time, about a century in fact, but finally, thanks chiefly to editor and jazz historian Francesco Martinelli of Siena Jazz, the first comprehensive, pan-European history of jazz sees ...

In 2020, I published A Map of Jazz: Crossroads of Music and Human Rights (WS Publishing), a book that looks at the culture of jazz on a timeline with cultures of the world. At more than 500 pages, the ...