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Renee Klahr/Think of the best songs of 2021 as a playlist catering to the most basic human urges. Within it, booties were called, muffins were buttered and bloody revenge was contemplated. It was quite a year. -
Renee Klahr/Think of the best songs of 2021 as a playlist catering to the most basic human urges. Within it, booties were called, muffins were buttered and bloody revenge was contemplated. It was quite a year.
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The NEA Jazz Masters are announced, a sideman in the spotlight and some pianists speak their minds. -
Davis' bluesy alto sax rasp is straight out of Charlie Parker's playbook, but he makes it his own in a new live recording from the Smalls Jazz Club.
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The jazz musician didn't make his burden any lighter by choosing to play tenor and soprano saxophones — the same instruments his father, John Coltrane, indelibly stamped. But critic Kevin Whitehead says he speaks in his own voice on the album Spirit Fiction.
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Mingus wrote, Miles talked, Sonny picked, Bean assessed, Trane spoke — and that's just the start.
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We're in a guitar world, from Pakistan to Brazil and from steel strings to nylon, as the Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet and Trio da Paz play in turn at the Newport Jazz Festival.
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The bass drummer, singer and a public face of the Treme Brass Band died last weekend.
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Watch a live video webcast from coastal New England during the weekend of August 4-5.
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Bassist Linda Oh's story is so compelling, everyone who writes about her mentions it: how she was born in Malaysia to Chinese parents, who emigrated to western Australia when she was 3.
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Gary Walker, music director of WBGO in Newark, highlights the pianist's take on a Miles Davis classic.
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The percussionist gathered musicians featured on his new album, Bamako By Bus, for a studio session with WBGO's The Checkout. Listen to the entire set and watch a slideshow of photos from the session.
