The third track and first single from pianist Tommaso Perazzo & drummer Marcello Cardillo's upcoming release for Red Records, "Portrait of a Moment," featuring bassist Buster Williams. This song ...

The blues is a distinctly American music genre. (SOUNDBITE OF JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA & WYNTON MARSALIS' "MEMPHIS BLUES (2015)") SHERMAN IRBY: I've been listening to the blues ever ...

At a moment when jazz still loomed large in American culture, 1959 was an unusually monumental year. Those 12 months saw the release of four great and genre-altering albums: Charles Mingus’s Mingus ...

Even among the greatest jazz albums, Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue stands apart. It is the one jazz album everyone has heard of, even if they don’t like jazz, and it is easily the best-selling ...

The blues is ripe with legends and myths, not least the oft-touted claim that W.C. Handy was the father of the blues. But as Darryl. W. Bullock tells it, there is an important tract of blues ...