This article was originally published on Moment Magazine. Music, at its core, is freedom. It cannot be caged by ideology or controlled by propaganda. The Nazis understood that, which is why they tried ...

The Jazz Age was a time of excess, creativity, and passion that lunged jazz music into the mainstream. It produced music icons like Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, whose innovative sounds advanced ...

Renowned trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis has launched a new project, a kind of call and response for these times.

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 ...

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Happy Jazz Appreciation Month, a fitting time for music critics to name their pick for the greatest jazz song of all time. Music publisher Primary Wave is sharing its take on the genre’s greatest song ...

On Tuesday, July 22, Grammy-winning Jazz musician Chuck Mangione peacefully passed away in his sleep at his home in Rochester, New York, according to Rochester First, which reported the news today.

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 ...

The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz, but the best guitarists have taken up the challenge of finding their own way. Fourteen musicians and writers share their favorites. Credit..

Newly released archival live performances by Ahmad Jamal, Joe Henderson, and Cecil Taylor illuminate their legacies and the art form at large.

On a single day later this month, jazz-lovers can hear a world premiere by Ernest Dawkins in Englewood, or a tribute to Randy Weston and Melba Liston in Hyde Park. On the West Side, they can enjoy a ...