Like it or not, a new wave of young composer / arrangers has surfaced, scrupulously guiding big bands into heretofore uncharted waters, now and then smooth, at other times choppy, but always ...

In a Count Basie performance of the “Basie Boogie,” the musician's fingers fly across the piano keys as if they are doing the dance themselves. Saxophone, clarinet and string soloists add their own ...

For most contemporary music consumers, listening to jazz is a historical exercise. Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue is, at the time of writing, still No. 3 on Billboard's Jazz Albums chart 61 years after it ...

From one end of my iTunes library to the other, there is generally a different type of music for every occasion, so to speak. For example, rainy days, full of storm clouds and grey skies, I make sure ...

The pianist tells it straight about avant-garde music, the Rothko Chapel, laying into André 3000, and championing a Constitutional right to hate on Donald Trump. Not since Miles Davis was captured ...

In 2020, I published A Map of Jazz: Crossroads of Music and Human Rights (WS Publishing), a book that looks at the culture of jazz on a timeline with cultures of the world. At more than 500 pages, the ...

In the 2019 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll, five of the top 10 new releases were recordings led or co-led by women artists — a startling 50%. In fact, it is the largest number of projects led by women in ...

Nashville's jazz and blues scene is alive and well. Music City is home to many intimate clubs, bars and live music venues ...

Big improvements are coming to the downtown Phoenix jazz scene. The Nash Jazz Club and Jazz in Arizona have announced a $2.5 million expansion of the club's facilities, including the creation of a ...

Throughout his time working for the Daily Gazette, WAMC and A Place for Jazz, he took his passion for jazz and blended it ...