There had been a very vibrant modern jazz movement back in New York ... been about taking the less aggressive aspects of the music and making a style out of that. Now, there have always been ...

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

As a social-media-savvy artist who always sought to make such genres more accessible to a modern audience ... with classical music. Later on, she would develop a taste for jazz after combing ...

Hall's genius with a guitar had profound implications for the jazz band format, as six-strings replaced piano in the rhythm section ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

During the 1940s, jazz gradually parted ways with popular music. A new generation of modern jazz performers known as beboppers developed a style of lightning-fast improvisation meant for serious ...

Raúl Molina's Live at Ecuador Jazz Festival is a rare album that is more than just a collection of songs, it is a declaration of purpose. On his first live album, Molina carves out an artistic vision ...