From Orrin Evans' big 50th birthday celebration to a Roscoe Mitchell-Tyshawn Sorey twofer at Solar Myth, it'll be a very ...

Herbie Hancock is an all-time jazz great, so it is reassuring to hear that he suffers from the same modern day ...

“I dreamed about being born in medieval times,” says composer Yelena Eckemoff. Yelena’s newest album is not a rendering of early-music tropes in modern jazz feels. Rather, in her writing on this album ...

and modern jazz. Using music sung by Sicilian fishermen, sulphur miners, and folk musicians as a starting point, the music is like a trip on the Mediterranean that detours to Mali, Jamaica ...

“He’s a continual, consummate student of the music,” Turner said of Hart ... doubles as a vivid portrait of the evolution of modern jazz. Could the young Billy Hart, growing up in Washington ...

In the Village Voice bestselling author T.J. English interviews saxophonist Darryl Yokley about his ambitious take on a literary masterpiece.

A lot can happen in a decade. In the music world alone, we saw significant sonic shifts in genres, artists rise and fall, and ...

So, let’s look at five genres that changed how modern music sounds. The Dawn of Jazz: A Foundation for Modern Sound Jazz is a significant period in musical history that arose from the lively ...

During one characteristically productive period in the mid-1980s, Doherty wrote what many consider to be his finest work, Spondance, music for a modern jazz ballet that was commissioned by the ...

Musicians have been paying tribute to the "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" icon, whose influence has shaped R&B, hip-hop and neo-soul.

His biggest discovery came in 2005, when the library received a large collection of jazz ... modern — analog magnetic tapes in the 1980s and, later, digital files. He worked not only with music ...

Sitar maestro Ravi Chary blends tradition and innovation, transforming classical ragas into dynamic global soundscapes. In an ...