KNKX receives thousands of fresh songs per year for programming consideration. Here are the jazz releases from 2025 that rose ...

A new Berlin-based radio station named after jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald is aiming to revive the genres fortunes. As the ...

Gunther Schuller leads the NEC Jazz Orchestra in rehearsal in Jordan Hall, 1990. Schuller coined the term "Third Stream" when referring to the genre that blends classical and jazz. From jazz to ...

Jazz music is an inherently elusive genre. While its roots stem from influences like European harmonics, African rhythms, ...

One of the more adventurous and transformative eras in jazz happened amid the societal turbulence of the mid- to late-1960s, and Miles Davis and John Coltrane were leading the way. In his new book ...

EXCLUSIVE: Billy Porter has joined the producing team of the Broadway-aimed Billy Strayhorn: Something to Live For, a new musical about jazz great Strayhorn set to make its world debut next month at ...

When the music becomes too complex, it no longer functions well as popular music, and the converse is also true— when it gets too simple, it loses its ability to capture and hold the attention of a ...

A trailblazer in the new generation of Brazilian jazz, Augusto Baschera is redefining the traditional role of instruments in composition with his fresh and innovative approach. Augusto Baschera is an ...

Nobody expects jazz musicians to play symphonies. But some high-brow concert audiences still think that symphonic musicians can play jazz. Symphonies are made to be played in concert halls for people ...

Historic Washington State Park will host a free summer concert series, "An Evening of Jazz," featuring the Majestic Jazz Band, William McNally, and the 106th Army Arkansas National Guard Jazz Band on ...