Enslaved people would sing work songs while working the plantations and religious spirituals in church. Combined with the African rhythms, these musical styles were the foundation of blues. The ...

Jazz was all over the place in 2022. I mean that as a compliment, and with an intended double meaning: We saw some great examples of improvisers flowing through the culture, and we also heard ...

The chapter “Our Mainstream Jazz” describes how, by 1970, jazz gained a modernist, formalized sensibility after the influence ...

Trumpeter, bandleader, singer, soloist, film star and comedian – Satchmo was a virtuosic performer and one of the most influential artists in jazz history. His was truly a Wonderful World.

Younge and Shaheed Muhammad navigated an enlightening, educational conversation alongside Yonas at this vinyl playback session, discussing the origins and future of jazz. A unique thread that the ...

This type of jazz had deeper resonance beyond the oceanfront views it conjured. The origins of Brazilian jazz are often traced to the late 1950s, to the advent of bossa nova by the composers ...