While I am no jazz expert, there are many wonderful pianists in jazz who make me think, "This person is great," the more I ...

Documentary portrait of jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, combining archival material of Monk playing solo and with his quartet, ...

Yet despite the genre’s overall scroll of innovators, jazz as a whole has scrambled for the spotlight in-between (and ever ...

Verve at 70 on November 20, bringing its year-long 70th anniversary celebration to a close. Produced by Steve Jordan, the collection assembles musicians from several generations to revisit ...

When Louis Armstrong landed in Léopoldville (now Kinshasa) in October 1960, his trumpet was meant to herald American ...

Bruce Klauber is the author of four books, an award-winning music journalist, concert and record producer and publicist, producer of the Warner Brothers and Hudson Music “Jazz Legends” film series, ...

He paid just $30 for a painting that had been forgotten for decades. After being identified, it has gone on to break the ...

While Legacy Recordings' regular release schedule has been feast or famine in recent months, Sony Music's catalogue label has got some great picks for Record Store Day Black Friday. Its seven titles ...

The recording is from 1974. I first learned of this quartet in 1981, when they held their farewell concert in Japan. It was ...

Stockholm Jazz Festival doesn’t have a festival site. Instead, concerts are spread across the city from October 9 to 18, taking place at jazz clubs, concert halls, museums and bars. The festival ...

Grammy nominated Bassist Brian Bromberg has appeared on more than 150 recordings and collaborated with everyone from Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie and Andrea Bocelli to Sarah Vaughan, Lalo Schifrin, ...

Resonance Records will release a newly discovered 1976 live recording of saxophonist Clifford Jordan performing with pianist ...