The artists featured here, some with careers of as long as 60 years and half of whom are still living and recording, made albums that prove the timelessness of jazz. The albums featured in the fourth ...

Musicians both established and up-and-coming stretched themselves in fresh ways over the last year, creating poignant moments of collaboration and challenge. By Hank Shteamer In 2024, jazz continued ...

Even if you aren’t actively seeking out jazz, it’s inescapable. It directly informs so much hip hop and electronic music, and we frequently hear it popping up in punk, metal, and indie rock too. It ...

Back in the late sixties, when rock musicians started to explore more complex things, the music became at the same time more interesting and, well, complicated at the same time. It was the advent of ...

Assessing the best jazz albums of any current year could be a tricky affair. The tricky part lies in the term current, as during any given year there is a slew of reissued jazz albums that can ...

Jazz can be a confusing genre if you don’t know a ton about it. There are lots of records out there to investigate and the sounds can be challenging. Some music listeners want to know what they’re ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against The Machine and Primus are not the bands a Grammy Award-winning jazz bassist, composer and band leader usually cites as key early influences. But there is nothing ...

In today's session, we have a very special guest: one of jazz's great ambassadors and, perhaps, the finest jazz pianist to hail from South Africa. In the '60s, Ibrahim left South Africa due to ...

The National Endowment for the Arts is enhancing its Jazz Masters program by organizing an annual tour and collaborating on a CD project and radio profiles of its honorees. NEA Chairman Dana Gioia ...

The NEA Jazz Masters fellowship began in 1982, establishing a lifetime achievement honor for practitioners of a uniquely American art form. One of the first three inductees was Sun Ra — a composer, ...

As a teenager of 18 in 1970, I was heavily into rock music, The Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix and the Grateful Dead. I subscribed to Rolling Stone Magazine and really enjoyed the record ...

It’s officially 2023 year-end list season, and the staff-wide BrooklynVegan list of our favorite albums of the year is just around the corner, but first, here’s a list of 10 jazz albums from this year ...