The producer helped bring about the swing era in the 1930s, but a new set highlights the later jazz recordings he oversaw in ...

From music producer Quincy Jones, to critic and archivist Dan Morgenstern, jazz historian Kevin Whitehead remembers just a few of the influential musicians and personalities we lost this year.

It may be coincidence, or just a reflection of my own state of mind, that this dreadful year’s list of favorite jazz albums leans toward the meditative, the balladic, the Romantic, sometimes the ...

Wayne Shorter was a key figure in popularizing the soprano saxophone, recording indelible albums for Blue Note Records.

“We should do another record, but let’s make it a visual product,” suggested Charlie Hunter, celebrated guitarist and producer, just months after Maritzaida’s stunning debut albums, Boleros Clásicos ...

International jazz pianist and composer Roberto Magris (b. 1959) from Trieste, Italy, has over 40 recordings to his credit and has toured in over 42 different countries in Europe, America, Asia, ...

The trumpeter took jazz music out ... is a lush, romantic blues, on which Adams’ baritone gives the main riff a thick bottom as Charlie Rouse’s tenor sax fills in the middle.

December 19, 2024 • On this special holiday episode, we gather around the fire for a special listen to pianist George Burton's burning Christmas record, The Yule Log. We'll hear some favorites ...

Aaron Brown, a veteran television news anchor whose steady hand helped guide CNN viewers through the unfolding tragedy of the ...

We’re fully in Christmas movie season, which has some intersection with the best romantic comedies on Netflix right now, but not as much as you might think. Netflix has quietly become a bit of a ...