Instrumental music, once relegated to being a background sound for certain activities, has evolved to become a key element of ...

And it seems that in 2025 there was not only an abundance of new jazz releases, but the quality bar was raised again, with ...

Gunther Schuller leads the NEC Jazz Orchestra in rehearsal in Jordan Hall, 1990. Schuller coined the term "Third Stream" when referring to the genre that blends classical and jazz. From jazz to ...

Jazz was all over the place in 2022. I mean that as a compliment, and with an intended double meaning: We saw some great examples of improvisers flowing through the culture, and we also heard ...

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 ...

April is Jazz Appreciation Month, which celebrates a genre of music that holds much importance to the many ASU students and faculty who study and perform jazz. JAM is meant to celebrate the rich ...

There’s a reason Miles Davis recorded “My Funny Valentine” and John Coltrane “My Favorite Things.” Jazz musicians work via a strategy of theme-and-variation. They plant a melodic/rhythmic motif in the ...

Editor’s note: City Journal congratulates Ted Gioia, who has received ASCAP’s 2021 Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism for this article. When people ask how I became a jazz pianist ...

Charles McPherson is an American alto saxophonist and composer with a career spanning eight decades. He has worked closely with a host of artists, among whom are some considered to be originators and ...