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

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

For decades, this 1960’s oil painting by Davis Quinn hung in the study of my…

Trombonist (and occasional slide trumpeter) Wycliffe Gordon, a longtime member of the Jazz at Lincoln…

Over the course of its 35-year history, JAZZIZ Magazine would occasionally run exclusive issues dedicated…

Jon Batiste is one of jazz’s greatest ambassadors. As the bandleader for The Late Show…

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

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

Jazz, obviously, did not originate from one single personality, yet Buddy Bolden seems to have…

Record Store Day, the internationally celebrated day of vinyl records dedicated to supporting local independent…

Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis once said, “When the music stopped being about dancing, people stopped listening.”…

In the ’20s and ’30s, marijuana was the jazz world’s drug of choice. Many musicians…

Recorded in Chicago on this day in 1926, Louis Armstrong’s “Heebie Jeebies” is said to contain the first example of scat singing in jazz history.

The Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, Queens, is the largest museum dedicated to a…

In this issue, we remember trumpet icon Roy Hargrove, examine saxophonist Marcus Strickland fresh new…

A lesser-known holiday tune from the legendary Louis Armstrong, “‘Zat You, Santa Claus?” is a swinging homage to Ol’ Saint Nick.

The Louis Armstrong House Museum Collections, the world’s largest archives for a single jazz musician,…

Deutsche Grammophon (DG), the world’s oldest and most renowned classical music label, is celebrating its…

The Joy of Jazz Festival has announced the lineup of its 21st edition, which will…

The Queens Library (New York City, New York) will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Louis…

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