Emerging in the late 1940s and early 1950s amid a postwar cultural ferment, avant‑garde jazz carved out a distinct identity by daringly shattering conventional jazz dogma. While bebop and hard bop had ...

Bill Dixon, the maverick trumpeter, composer, educator and major force in the jazz avant-garde movement of the 1960s, died on Wednesday at his home in North Bennington, Vt. He was 84. In the early ...

Honoring the legacy of radical improvisation while pushing its boundaries, Billie Davies fuses raw American avant-garde grit with intellectual European free-jazz experimentation. Cobra Basement ...

2023 was an eventful year for acclaimed saxophonist, flutist and composer Anna Webber. She released her new album, Shimmer Wince, in October and was appointed New England Conservatory’s New Jazz ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

A first-time music festival by the owner of the music venue Constellation is coming to the Bricktown and Avondale neighborhoods this September. Sound & Gravity, created by Mike Reed, will be Sept.

Plus: Pianist Javier Red releases an album devoted to empathy for autistic kids, and world-weary cabaret singer Mister Tom Musick showcases his many moods on a new record. Javier Red’s new album uses ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – For a lot of music fans, The Bad Plus came to public attention as a piano-based trio, covering the likes of Nirvana, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Rush and Blondie alongside their own ...

When the lineup was announced for the 25th Concert of Colors — Detroit’s free annual diversity-themed music festival — Griot Galaxy immediately jumped out. No Detroit jazz ensemble is more legendary ...

99-year-old Millie Baran collaborates with Albert Marquès — composer, pianist and New York City public school teacher — as part of a musical project to amplify marginalized voices. Holocaust survivor ...

The group that started at Antioch College in Ohio went to Africa and returned “transformed,” one of its members said. A new boxed set collects its little-heard albums from the 1970s. By Marcus J.