Jazz may not have the mainstream cultural dominance that it once did, but it remains a thriving, multi-faceted form of music that continues to have so much more to say. Jazz informs so much of the rap ...

Jazz lives onstage. It’s a music that requires in-the-moment interaction between players, in front of audiences, to grow, develop, and thrive. And yet, in a year that was effectively without live ...

In our penultimate collection of half a dozen jazz thrillers this week, it becomes clear that brilliant, compelling music comes in all shapes and sizes. As we start to wind down to the 72nd jazz ...

Collaborative Jazz Septet; Gollem's People; No One Can Change You; Keep The Time; The Walker; Falling Feeling; Autumn Blues For Rainy Days; Pentatonic Show Collaborative Jazz Septet is made by two ...

This year's edition of A Jazz Piano Christmas almost didn't happen. But with the cooperation of the Washington, D.C. city government, the staffs of both NPR Music and the John F. Kennedy Center for ...

This was a rough fuckin’ year for jazz. Once upon a time, I’d begin almost every one of these columns with an account of a live performance I’d witnessed sometime in the previous month. I haven’t done ...