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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Two new box sets feature Oscar Peterson both live and in studio. (Photo: DownBeat Archive) Nineteen years after his passing, Oscar Peterson (1925–2007) still has the ability to amaze listeners with ...

As emcee Mark Ruffin noted at the commencement of an epic tribute to saxophonist Sonny Rollins at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, on Sept. 19, the gigantic ...

Herbie Hancock and jazz impresario Darlene Chan were honored at a September gala in support of the L.A. jazz club Sam First. (Photo: Craig Allyn) In 1968, Geordie Hormel purchased the ...

Wilson’s ability to connect to audiences helped her to win two Grammy awards and multiple other accolades. She was named an NEA Jazz Master in 2022. (Photo: Mark Sheldon) Cassandra Wilson, a singer, ...

“The love from the jazz and music community restored my faith in humanity,” Walia wrote in an online post upon his release from detention at an ICE facility. (Photo: Courtesy Pritesh Walia) Indian ...

Johnson provided the slithery, smoky sax lead on Henry Mancini’s theme for the 1963 Peter Sellers film The Pink Panther. (Photo: Michael Jackson) Plas Johnson, a jazz and R&B tenor saxophonist whose ...