The New York City listening room Close Up lives up to its name—and on the evening of Oct. 22, local musicians, industry ...

It’s challenging to pinpoint a defining element of this year’s San Diego Tijuana International Jazz Festival (SDTJ Jazz), ...

Margie Baker, a San Francisco-based jazz, blues and gospel singer and educator, died Sept. 27 at age 92. Born on Oct. 11, ...

Malou Oheix, a 27-year-old singer from Nantes, France, took first place at this year’s Herbie Hancock Institute International ...

Why do standards endure? Duchess, Yoko Miwa & Mikayla Shirley and Lizz Wright & Kenny Banks Jr. offer very personal reflections on the love of performing classic secular and gospel songs. It’s ...

Miguel Zenón’s recent forays into Latin American songbooks have yielded some of his most rapturous music yet. As the follow-up to 2019’s sumptuous Sonero (The Music Of Ismael Rivera), on which he ...

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Benny Goodman used Billie on a record (Columbia) of “My Mother’s Son In Law” when [Jack] Teagarden, [Gene] Krupa and others were in his recording band—before he really organized his present combo. The ...

Featuring a near perfect mixture of standard jazz tunes and popular musical mainstays, pianist Nat Adderley Jr.’s Took So Long is a fine trio album. The trio features two bassists (Belden Bullock and ...

Pianist Irène Schweizer has a lustrous and historically deep approach to the piano, informed by her early study of boogie-woogie and stride, and eshed out through the exploration of other traditions: ...

Ran Blake, the master auteur of film noir in notes and tones, offers the latest instantiation of his sui generis improvised dreamscapes on Night Harbor, thanks to one-time student Jared Sims, who ...

Pat Senatore, a well-regarded bassist and club owner, died Sept. 8 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 91. He grew up in the Down Neck neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey. Violin was his first ...