Jazz music can have many moods and themes, but as we soon round off our second year in a global pandemic, our hosts found themselves turning to joyful and expressive music. Feel the many moods of the ...

More than most, 2021 was a year of mixed results — an endless scroll of gains and losses, halting progress and hard retrenchment. For jazz musicians and the community of listeners around them, it ...

The Best Albums of 2021? My picks from the world of jazz including some Blue Note Tone Poet Series albums you need to own. It’s that time of year again as we approach mid-December to take a hard look ...

Despite what we’re sometimes led to believe, jazz hasn’t been relegated to the halls of academia, it isn’t background music, and it certainly isn’t dead. It’s constantly in the DNA of the music that ...

Saxophonist Sam Gendel, pictured above, had a busy 2021 working on his own projects and contributing to albums such as Mach-Hommy’s “Balens Cho.” (Austen Hooks) Perspective by Andy Beta In 2018, Los ...

A host of outstanding duet albums emphasized musicians not only collaborating but truly listening to each other. By Giovanni Russonello The violinist and multimedia artist Laura Ortman stood onstage ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... December means “best of” list time. And here’s the list I think about putting together all year long. My criteria are pretty simple: What albums, out of the ...

Jazz is a music of accumulated wisdom, so it means that much more when we bid farewell to our elders: they're guardians of the art form, keepers of the flame. And as we did last year, we're pausing to ...

Throughout the pandemic, the music’s flexibility has become an asset. Where will artists take it next? Hosted by Jon Caramanica. Produced by Pedro Rosado. Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, jazz’s ...

Pop music had a year like no other, beginning 2021 with shuttered venues and ending with an explosion of concerts. Not that music wasn't being made. In the early months of the year, many musicians ...

As with countless other areas of American culture, the contributions of Black women in jazz have been underappreciated for decades. Just look at Betty Carter as an example. One of the most celebrated ...