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10 Albums You Need to Know: July 2020

A star-studded quartet’s first studio album in 25 years; previously unreleased Art Blakey and Thelonious…

JAZZIZ Weekly Discover Playlist: June 15, 2020

Pianist Gerald Clayton will release his Blue Note Records debut, Happening: Live at the Village…

Year By Year: Essential Albums of 2008

Jazz may not have an official yearbook, but it does have a vast and well-documented…

JAZZIZ Weekly Discover Playlist: March 20, 2020

On April 24, Blue Note Records will release Just Coolin’, a never-before-released studio album by…

Made in Miami: Snarky Puppy’s Michael League and His GroundUP Music Fest Call the Magic City Home

Bassist Michael League is co-founder of the genre-fusing jazz collective Snarky Puppy and the brains…

JAZZIZ Weekly Discover: October 28, 2019

Nicholas Payton has released a new album, Relaxin’ with Nick, on which he plays keyboards…

JAZZIZ Backstage Pass: 10 Albums You Need To Know for October 2019

JAZZIZ editors Brian Zimmerman and Matt Micucci are back again with another episode of 10…

Van Morrison, Marvin Gaye, Spyro Gyra: The Week in Jazz

The Week in Jazz is your roundup of new and noteworthy stories from the jazz…

JAZZIZ Weekly Discover: October 7, 2019

The Comet Is Coming, featuring Danalogue, King Shabaka and Betamax, has released a new EP,…

JAZZIZ Editors’ Choice Playlist: Blue Note Favorites

Eighty years ago, a German immigrant and passionate jazz fan named Alfred Lion produced his…

Listen to the Lineup: The 40th Annual Montreal Jazz Festival

Summer is upon us, and with it comes the 40th edition of the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal presented by TD Bank Group in collaboration with Rio Tinto. The fest is all set to take place June 26 through July 6 in downtown Montreal, with several hundred thousand people descending upon the Canadian city to experience the biggest jazz celebration in the world.

New Norah Jones Album ‘Begin Again’ Gathers Seven Eclectic Singles

Norah Jones will release Begin Again, a new collection of singles gathering seven eclectic songs…

Celebrate 80 Years of Blue Note with these Exclusive Playlists

Eighty years ago, on January 6, 1939, a German immigrant named Alfred Lion produced his…

International Jazz Day Celebrates the ‘Universal Language of Peace’

Herbie Hancock, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and the chairman of the newly named Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz, had a message for the thousands of spectators on hand at the Hamer Auditorium in Melbourne, Australia, on April 30, as well as for the millions of fans watching him online via live web stream: “Jazz,” he said, “is the universal language of peace.”