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 ...

The primitive native music—its complicated rhythms pounded out with hands or curved sticks on crudely made drums—made him think inevitably of the origins of jazz. He recorded some of it on ...

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 ...