While walking along Chicago Avenue on the first Thursday of the month, you just might hear a crooning saxophone solo wafting ...

Luminaries from the Harlem Renaissance and beyond are celebrated and memorialized in 25 commemorative plaques that now bear ...

Discover an exposé of great recent new and reissued jazz music releases that will appease even the most discerning jazz music ...

In May 2024, just days after celebrating his 100th solar return, the legendary Marshall Allen continued a legacy of immense ...

This label’s 86-year run has been one of the most storied in jazz — and it’s still going. Hear tracks by Wayne Shorter, Sonny ...

For over four decades now, bassist John Patitucci has proved his mettle with some of the most iconic artists in the history ...

The group also brought home a pair of individual recognitions. Emma Plamp and Jared Burk received outstanding solo awards at ...

It’s a leisurely, jazz-chorded ballad ... and Allen’s alto saxophone solo scurries down polytonal paths, still frisky. Galactic and Irma Thomas, ‘Lady Liberty’ Two New Orleans stalwarts ...

George Gershwin called one of his early classic songs, first created by Fred and Adele Astaire, “Fascinating Rhythm”. It was ...

The most legendary jazz-funk band of all time is coming to Ann Arbor. The Headhunters, co-led by percussionist Bill Summers ...

Now, with his arsenal of flutes and appropriately sensitive accompanists on harp, trombone, percussion and hip-hop poetry — ...

Presenting never-before-seen ephemera and the works of 19 contemporary Black artists, the Hammer Museum pays homage to the ...