The fest, in its third year, is largely the vision of San Diego Jazz Ventures' Daniel Atkinson, who wanted to launch an event ...

Big bands were built in the 1920s and ’30s to blast young dancers with layers of rhythm, but creative composers seeking a larger canvas have kept the form alive. Hear 12 big selections. By Giovanni ...

Essential jazz albums: from Miles Davis to Herbie Hancock, these 13 albums reveal the many faces of jazz – soulful, swinging, ...

*Los Angeles, CA, the 31st Annual Central Avenue Jazz Festival is one for the record books. People were feeling both festive and sad. Everyone was happy to attend this year’s iteration of the jazz ...

September is the city’s unofficial jazz month, and there’s still plenty of world-class music to be heard with events in ...

It's taken some time, about a century in fact, but finally, thanks chiefly to editor and jazz historian Francesco Martinelli of Siena Jazz, the first comprehensive, pan-European history of jazz sees ...

In 2020, I published A Map of Jazz: Crossroads of Music and Human Rights (WS Publishing), a book that looks at the culture of jazz on a timeline with cultures of the world. At more than 500 pages, the ...

“God has wrought many things out of oppression,” begins Martin Luther King, Jr.’s essay occasioned by the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival. “He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create—and from ...