When I last spoke with Terence Blanchard, in 2015, I asked him to discuss the…
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Like all of his brother and sister jazz musicians, pianist Emmet Cohen has had to…
The next generation of jazz leaders does not hesitate to push past artistic boundaries. From…
Feature photo courtesy of Universal Music The fact that musicians love film should come as…
Each year, we ask our writers and editors to select their top 10 albums of…
Jazz history offers an endless array of stories to tell, from the outsized characters who’ve…
Feature films about jazz artists frequently get it wrong. Take, for example, Clint Eastwood’s darkly…
Duke Ellington and the movies grew up roughly at the same time. Edward Kennedy Ellington…
In the documentary Herb Alpert Is…, which was released in theaters and on Watch @…
To commemorate their 25th recording, the Yellowjackets decided to do something extra special. Joining forces…
Drummer Cindy Blackman Santana and her husband, guitarist Carlos Santana, make their best music where…
Seth MacFarlane became one of the youngest executive producers in television history when Fox premiered…
A long lost live album from the First Lady of Song; the return of an…
In April of 1923, King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band filed into the tiny Gennett recording…
Using a rather primitive recording device — a suction-cup microphone attached to a telephone receiver,…
In Michael Jarrett’s book Pressed for All Time, excerpted in this article, pioneering producer and…
It’s a sensation familiar to many jazz fans: An album catches your eye from a…
The first time most people caught a glimpse of musician and producer Don Was, he…
Charles Tolliver was a relative unknown when jazz scenester Jim Harrison first heard him during…
Before bassist Brian Bromberg received his first GRAMMY nomination, before he had a single hit…