The debut album from the L.A. jazz supergroup SML is a thrilling elegy for a dead nightclub. Over two packed nights last year, the quintet recorded raw, long-form improvisations at the Highland Park ...

In the late 1960s, the recording industry lost interest in America’s greatest art form. But in a small, dark club on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, jazz legends were playing the best music you’ve ...

When you think about memories of enjoying jazz in Cincinnati, what comes to mind? Does your mind take you to the Blue Wisp Jazz Club or Schwartz’s Point? Do you think back to the early days of The ...

Originally published in London in 1986 by Quartet Books LTD, Bob Gordon's seminal work on the jazz styles and groups that developed primarily in Los Angeles in the 1950s has long been out-of-print and ...

Jazz may have originated in New Orleans in the late 19th century, but New York City is where it expanded—physically, sonically, and culturally. By the 1920s, Harlem had become a national hub, where ...

I know it's hard to imagine with today's governmental overreach telling people what cars to drive, what bathrooms to use, and the highest personal, property and commercial taxes of any state in the ...

When Chris' Jazz Cafe owner and executive chef Mark DeNinno first considered taking over the Sansom Street music club 20 years ago, he knew he needed to do some recon. He and his wife went to the ...

In the mid-1990s, a jazz combo called Al Cardillo and Friends began playing at Papa Razzi, an Italian restaurant on Jericho Turnpike in Westbury. At the time, the idea met with more than a little ...

Jazz pianist Gary Motley is a highly regarded performer, producer and composer who creates arrangements for the likes of Cynthia Erivo, Freddy Cole and Jennifer Holiday when he’s not performing his ...

The Boston area has produced a long line of world-class musicians — from Aerosmith to New Edition to the next generation being trained at Berklee — so it’s no surprise our music clubs are teeming with ...

House of Aama enters the latest season of New York Fashion Week with a continued commitment to ritual, exploring new modes of materiality. The intentional mother-daughter design duo has used its ...