Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes) and at Apple Music here, and sign ...

An American art form now more than a century old, jazz emerged from the streets of New Orleans. The city has produced some of the world's great jazz musicians ... South at the time, Armstrong ...

Award-winning jazz bassist, educator and mentor Hayden, at age 68, is today the youngest recipient of Detroit’s highest arts ...

Embedded in the music, in its riveting biographies and ... Today, I can't find the other records. I listen to jazz all the time — old and new, straight-ahead and avant-garde and fusion, swing ...