After celebrating 25 years last year, New York jazz spot Smoke begins its next quarter century run. I spoke to owner/founder ...

A modern-day renaissance man, jazz trumpeter and opera composer Terence Blanchard is an 8-time Grammy Award-winner whose film ...

The Jazz Education Network Conference (JEN) is an annual four-day event that welcomes jazz musicians and ensembles from ...

In the late 1960s, the recording industry lost interest in America’s greatest art form. But in a small, dark club on the ...

The 48th annual two-day festival returns to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center with Cory Wong, Gregory Porter, Cassandra ...

Some Nation writers went out of their way to avoid discussing race in their critiques of the new music, even as loaded ...

Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, Luke Combs and Lil Wayne & The Roots are among the big acts set to headline the New Orleans ...

The recently announced 2025 North American leg of the band's "Dark Matter" tour includes several springtime dates in the ...

Julia Keefe is a jazz singer, composer, arranger and big band leader currently working in New York City. But she's also an ...

The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz, but the best guitarists have taken up the challenge of finding ...

We need to get back to the roots of the music and grow to bring in new people otherwise who are we trying to share it with?” ...