From modern jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette to masterful scatter and vocalist Nancy King, KNKX remembers the lives of notable jazz musicians who passed away this year.

Branford Marsalis, Joshua White and Patricia Brennan are just some of the artists who released head-turning albums this year.

While music-loving tourists don't necessarily flock to Frenchmen Street to hear modern jazz, if they're lucky and curious enough, they're likely to run into some of these next-generation, hugely ...

A group of local true believers keeps the beat of America’s original art form, improvising and riffing to grow audiences and support musicians. It’s a sultry summer evening in Eden Park’s Seasongood ...

It may be coincidence, or just a reflection of my own state of mind, that this dreadful year’s list of favorite jazz albums leans toward the meditative, the balladic, the Romantic, sometimes the Zen, ...

From 2015 through 2020, a personal research project included my reading dozens of jazz books and related media. They included mainstays such as the massive reference The Penguin Guide to Jazz ...

NORTHAMPTON You know your jazz festival isn’t “missing a beat” when Downbeat Magazine — considered by many as the best jazz magazine in the world — pays attention to you. “Mention the word ‘festival’ ...

Every city has its own music culture and sound. That’s especially true for jazz, a genre so deeply rooted in Sacramento history that its improvisational style became a rhythmic reflection of the ...

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Charles McPherson is an American alto saxophonist and composer with a career spanning eight decades. He has worked closely with a host of artists, among whom are some considered to be originators and ...