After two years of flux following the departure of artistic director Tim Jackson, the 2026 Monterey Jazz Festival roared back ...

As emcee Mark Ruffin noted at the commencement of an epic tribute to saxophonist Sonny Rollins at the Cathedral of Saint John ...

Like much of the United States, New York officially marked the nation’s semiquincentennial in July with grandiose displays of one-dimensional patriotism.But over at the Jazz Gallery, a modest space ...

What would a 200-piece orchestra including three contrabass saxophones, five tarogatos, solovox, bass marimba, electric ...

Immanuel Wilkins, an alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader and Blue Note recording artist based in Brooklyn, New York, is ...

Reinforcing modern jazz’s interaction with other genres associated with Black American music remains a hallmark of the ...

In 1968, Geordie Hormel purchased the 22,000-square-foot Masonic Temple in West Los Angeles for $125,000. He was the heir to the giant Hormel meatpacking company, yet he had no interest in pursuing ...

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There are many roads to jazz, as any collection of fans will demonstrate. But for many of those fans, whose age today can fall anywhere between 10 and 80, that road has been paved with issues of ...

Mingus occupies an image in the popular imagination, by all accounts well-deserved, as a force of nature, an iconoclastic truth-teller, a volatile, emotional man with a violent streak. Resonance ...

“This is the most explicit and boldest expression of what I believe,” Joel Ross said of his latest album, Gospel Music. On a stormy afternoon in January, Joel Ross led a quartet at the Louis Armstrong ...

“Cerebral and academic thought is a different way to approach music,” Flea says of his continuing dive into jazz. “I’ve always relied on emotion and intuition and physicality.” (Photo: Gus Van Sant) ...