After two years of flux following the departure of artistic director Tim Jackson, the 2026 Monterey Jazz Festival roared back ...

As emcee Mark Ruffin noted at the commencement of an epic tribute to saxophonist Sonny Rollins at the Cathedral of Saint John ...

Like much of the United States, New York officially marked the nation’s semiquincentennial in July with grandiose displays of one-dimensional patriotism.But over at the Jazz Gallery, a modest space ...

What would a 200-piece orchestra including three contrabass saxophones, five tarogatos, solovox, bass marimba, electric ...

Immanuel Wilkins, an alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader and Blue Note recording artist based in Brooklyn, New York, is ...

In 1968, Geordie Hormel purchased the 22,000-square-foot Masonic Temple in West Los Angeles for $125,000. He was the heir to the giant Hormel meatpacking company, yet he had no interest in pursuing ...

Reinforcing modern jazz’s interaction with other genres associated with Black American music remains a hallmark of the ...

“It was just that suddenly … I could hear it,” Ravi Coltrane said of an epiphany he experienced during his late teens regarding his father’s music. “And it was almost like a calling, like something ...

On The Devil I Knew (La Reserve; ★★★★ 77:32), Nicole Zuraitis has written a five-part album that combines many aspects of popular music — jazz, poetry and a few standards — to create a psychologically ...

Record producer Bob Thiele’s classic photo that became the cover of John Coltrane’s landmark album A Love Supreme. (Photo: Bob Thiele) A tribute to John Coltrane is one thing, but there is much more ...

A solo concert by saxophonist Joshua Redman will close the first night of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival on Sept. 26. (Photo: Courtesy Joshua Redman) The Hyde Park Jazz Festival will take place for the ...

I wanted to make a crack about how BCDELUXE is “the solo bass clarinet album the masses have been clamoring for,” but, by God, the masses should have been ...