The New York City listening room Close Up lives up to its name—and on the evening of Oct. 22, local musicians, industry ...

Malou Oheix, a 27-year-old singer from Nantes, France, took first place at this year’s Herbie Hancock Institute International ...

It’s challenging to pinpoint a defining element of this year’s San Diego Tijuana International Jazz Festival (SDTJ Jazz), ...

Margie Baker, a San Francisco-based jazz, blues and gospel singer and educator, died Sept. 27 at age 92. Born on Oct. 11, ...

Why do standards endure? Duchess, Yoko Miwa & Mikayla Shirley and Lizz Wright & Kenny Banks Jr. offer very personal reflections on the love of performing classic secular and gospel songs. It’s ...

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Benny Goodman used Billie on a record (Columbia) of “My Mother’s Son In Law” when [Jack] Teagarden, [Gene] Krupa and others were in his recording band—before he really organized his present combo. The ...

Miguel Zenón’s recent forays into Latin American songbooks have yielded some of his most rapturous music yet. As the follow-up to 2019’s sumptuous Sonero (The Music Of Ismael Rivera), on which he ...

Featuring a near perfect mixture of standard jazz tunes and popular musical mainstays, pianist Nat Adderley Jr.’s Took So Long is a fine trio album. The trio features two bassists (Belden Bullock and ...

Pianist Irène Schweizer has a lustrous and historically deep approach to the piano, informed by her early study of boogie-woogie and stride, and eshed out through the exploration of other traditions: ...

Peplowski first came to prominence in legacy swing bands, including the final iteration of the Benny Goodman Orchestra, before beginning a solo career in the late 1980s. (Photo: Courtesy Ken Peplowski ...

Jon Batiste, the critics’ choice for Jazz Artist and Beyond Artist of the Year as well as Beyond Album of the Year. (Photo: Stu Brinin) The 70th Annual DownBeat International Critics Poll has made ...