J ust because we’re deep in autumn’s serenade for John Coltrane’s 100th birthday doesn’t mean we can’t break off some love ...

Bassist Nicki Parrott is truly a musician’s musician. Except that she also sings. Although she came a little late to the vocals game, she’s become an accomplished singer, both as a recording artist ...

“Man, there is no other gig like this,” Jon Batiste declares buoyantly, settling onto a sofa in his New York office. It’s a little after 11 a.m., and the Louisiana-born musician has just arrived for ...

A look at the music on the TV show that inspired generations of children—and even introduced them to jazz Johnny Costa and Fred Rogers working together on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (photo c/o PBS) ...

The last of Tony Williams’ fusion albums, The Joy of Flying was the drummer’s first since the mid-’60s without some form of the Lifetime name attached to his band. It’s a far-flung effort with a large ...

Life looks good in La Jolla, California. The bay where it sits, 12 miles north of San Diego, has the white sand beach of your … Read More “Review: Tord Gustavsen Trio Live in La Jolla at the Athenaeum ...

Jazz singer Andy Bey, who died at 85 on April 26, 2025, was a striking vision at the piano: a compact, muscley, mahogany-skinned man, half-smiling and lost in his own inscrutable world. Bey’s midnight ...

This exemplary release pairs a fine record of an underappreciated giant (Marsh) with an essential piece of jazz history-the definitive 1949 recordings by Tristano’s sextet featuring Marsh, Lee Konitz, ...

We’re heading toward the end of 2025 and tallying up lists, which might take a few different forms here as December unfolds. But this first list is mine — no committee, no poll, just my subjective ...

The pianist Vijay Iyer has a mathematical mind; in his compositions there is much to take in. Structurally, they’re complex. Iyer is rarely satisfied with one rhythm or one harmony within a tune. Add ...

Although it’s not unusual for record labels to apply some ballyhoo techniques to their promotional campaigns, it does seem especially misleading that RCA chose to cloak its most recent Glenn Miller ...

Some interesting parallels can be drawn between Ornette Coleman and Frank Zappa: Both are iconoclastic composers and self-taught visionaries who developed their own idiosyncratic instrumental ...