Find the best Duke Ellington songs every jazz fan should know. We rank the must hear tracks that defined an era. Check out the full list now.

Freebie of the week: Some people keep saying jazz music is dead, but there are a lot of signs to the contrary. One hundred ...

Now, let me preface this by saying I love all types of music: blues, rock, metal, classical, hip-hop, soul/r&b, etc. I would suspect that most reading this probably have a great affinity for all ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After much consternation, I’ve managed to pare down a long list of fine jazz-improv recordings from 2025 to a top 10. So, apologies to Marshall Allen, The ...

I always wanted to write how Miles Davis talked: abrupt, profane, contemptuous, in a stiletto rhythm that jabbed and stung and threw off unexpected sparks of enlightenment and tenderness. Of course, ...

The Jazz Age was a time of excess, creativity, and passion that lunged jazz music into the mainstream. It produced music icons like Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, whose innovative sounds advanced ...

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A documentary telling Detroit’s jazz legacy premieres at the 2024 Freep Film Festival. A local documentary premiering at the 2024 Freep Film Festival, “The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit,” ...