Jazz News
JAZZ MAUI KICKS OFF MONTHLONG MUSIC FESTIVAL WITH FREE FOURTH OF JULY CONCERTS
Jul 03, 2025, 12:15 AM
Jazz Maui has announced two free Fourth of July concerts to kick off the Jazz Maui 2025 Music Fest, a month of concerts celebrating Hawaiian music and its world-wide impact.
SYRACUSE JAZZ FEST 2025 SCHEDULE, DETAILS: IT’S FREE, AND THE MUSIC IS PRICELESS
Jun 23, 2025, 3:39 PM
The 2025 Syracuse International Jazz Festival runs from June 25-29 with a lineup that includes New Orleans great Trombone Shorty, three Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, swing, R&B and more. The music is priceless, and all of the Jazz Fest concerts are free to attend.
IOWA CITY JAZZ FESTIVAL TO BE HEADLINED BY A PIONEERING FORCE IN CONTEMPORARY JAZZ STEFON HARRIS
Jul 02, 2025, 1:51 AM
Dubbed “a pioneering force in contemporary jazz,” Stefon Harris and Blackout are excited to return to Iowa City to headline the 34th annual Iowa City Jazz Festival. Harris, a New Jersey-based vibraphonist,
JAZZ MUSIC AWARDS 2023 - PBS
Oct 09, 2024, 12:00 AM
Jazz Music Awards 2023. 10/9/2024 | 1h 55m 46s Video has Closed Captions | CC. The Jazz Music Awards 2023 celebrates the best in today's jazz. The inaugural broadcast is hosted by Dee Dee ...
5 MINUTES THAT WILL MAKE YOU LOVE 21ST-CENTURY JAZZ
Feb 01, 2023, 12:00 AM
We’ve done a lot of listening back. So where is jazz today? Writers and musicians including Sonny Rollins, Melanie Charles and Terri Lyne Carrington share their favorites from this millennium.
JAZZ PIANIST TAMMY HALL: MAKING EVERY NOTE COUNT
Jul 03, 2025, 3:04 AM
A quiet force in jazz for decades, pianist and Bay Area musical fixture Tammy Hall reflects on her life in music.
JAZZ HOUSE KIDS IS REWRITING THE RULES OF JAZZ EDUCATION
Jun 30, 2025, 3:59 PM
Jazz House Kids trains the next generation of jazz stars — alums include Isaiah J. Thompson and Immanuel Wilkins — and gives every young musician a place to belong.
A LESSER-KNOWN INFLUENCE ON JAZZ MUSIC: OPERA - NPR
Jun 10, 2023, 1:42 PM
A lesser-known influence on jazz music: opera NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Givonna Joseph of Loyola University New Orleans and Gwen Thompkins of WWNO radio about the influence of opera on jazz music.
LANCASTER AVENUE JAZZ FESTIVAL PROMISES SEVEN HOURS OF LIVE MUSIC IN WEST PHILLY
Jul 03, 2025, 3:49 PM
The Lancaster Avenue Jazz & Arts Festival is bringing brass back to Saunders Park Greene on Saturday, July 19. From noon to 7 p.m., local musicians will perform in the West Powelton space, rain or shine.
JAZZ MAUI PAYS TRIBUTE TO HAWAII’S INFLUENCE ON POPULAR MUSIC
Jul 03, 2025, 11:32 AM
As part of Jazz Fest 2025, Jazz Maui will host three concerts paying tribute to how Hawaii influenced popular music, beginning with acclaimed pianist Jeff Hellmer with a Sunset Jazz show at the Maui Ku‘ia Estate Chocolate Factory on July 6.
JAZZ LEGEND WYNTON MARSALIS CELEBRATES A MAJOR MILESTONE, EXPLAINS WHY HE DOESN'T GET SENTIMENTAL OVER HISTORIC CAREER - CBS NEWS
Feb 27, 2025, 3:07 PM
At 22, he became the first musician to win a Grammy in both jazz and classical music in the same year. But Marsalis doesn't get emotional when reflecting on his many achievements.
SAMARA JOY IS BRINGING 21ST CENTURY FLAIR TO CLASSIC JAZZ STANDARDS - VARIETY
Jan 31, 2023, 4:25 PM
Samara Joy knows how to command a room. After years of observing jazz champions like Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald from behind her computer screen and through crackling records, the 23-year ...
GRAMMY-WINNING ARTIST SAMARA JOY SAYS MUSIC IS HOW HER FAMILY SHARES "LOVE FOR EACH OTHER" - CBS NEWS
Dec 23, 2024, 12:41 AM
In 2021, jazz vocalist Samara Joy graduated from college. Months later, she released her first album. Now, she has three. She's won three Grammys and is up for two more for her latest Christmas ...
THE METRO: THE MAN BEHIND CANADA’S LONGEST-RUNNING JAZZ CONCERT SERIES
Jul 02, 2025, 7:53 PM
Leal has continued to promote jazz performances in Windsor over the years, going on to help launch the nonprofit Windsor Jazz Concert Series — the latest in a string of jazz concert series that have taken on various names — now considered the longest-running jazz concert series in Canadian history.
CAN JAZZ CLUBS SURVIVE IN L.A.? THE SUPERGROUP SML SURE HOPES SO
Jul 02, 2024, 11:59 PM
Jazz music’s roots run super deep here, and one of the best things we can do is to give artists spaces.” Advertisement Max Haymar of the Max Haymar Trio talks with the audience between songs ...
IOWA CITY JAZZ FESTIVAL WELCOMES THE SMOOTH SOUNDS OF RYAN MIDDAGH JAZZ ORCHESTRA
Jul 02, 2025, 1:54 AM
Cedar Rapids-born jazz performer and educator Ryan Middagh will be gracing the Iowa City Jazz Festival stage with his saxophone along with an array of talented musicians known as “Ryan Middaugh Jazz Orchestra.
5 MINUTES THAT WILL MAKE YOU LOVE SOUTH AFRICAN JAZZ
Jun 05, 2024, 12:00 AM
This is music that, for me, lives comfortably within the realm of South African jazz. Embedded with folk music, it emanates an undeniable “South African-ness” while also being very much of the ...
LAUFEY ON BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN JAZZ SINGING AND GEN-Z POP - VARIETY
Dec 05, 2024, 10:53 PM
Laufey is being named Crossover Artist of the Year at Variety's Hitmakers event. She discusses her deep roots in jazz singing and her Gen-Z fan base.
'ANIMALS AND ALL THAT JAZZ' AT THE INDIANAPOLIS ZOO CONTINUES THROUGH JULY
Jul 04, 2025, 3:41 AM
Bicentennial Pavilion concerts for the whole family continue until the end of the July.
FREE ATLANTA JAZZ FESTIVAL TO GATHER THOUSANDS IN PIEDMONT PARK - THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
May 19, 2025, 12:00 AM
“Jazz has always been a music that‘s been about social justice,” said Turre. “If you go back, look at Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, this has been a thread since the beginning of jazz.
RAMSEY LEWIS, JAZZ PIANIST WHO REVITALIZED GENRE, DIES AT 87
Sep 13, 2022, 6:58 PM
Lewis spent nearly 60 years recording and performing original jazz music, striking gold in 1965 with the crossover hit “The ‘In’ Crowd.” He died Monday at his home in his native Chicago ...
BEYOND BIRDS AND FLAMES: LET'S THINK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AS JAZZ MUSIC
Feb 09, 2023, 12:00 AM
To be a good jazz musician, you must be open to where the music and your bandmates take you. You know the framework, but not the details. You cannot control the experience nor predetermine every ...
JAZZ NEAR YOU ORIGIN STORY
Jul 04, 2025, 1:33 PM
Back in 2010, a spark of inspiration hit me that would change the course of my work and vision for AAJ: it was Jazz Near You. At the time, the music industry was reeling from a collapse in CD sales, and musicians were reaching out,
THE FILMS THAT BROUGHT THE BEST JAZZ MUSIC TO LIFE
Oct 17, 2019, 11:15 PM
The film centres on Lee’s deliciously ironically named music promoter, Giant, as he manages his best friend’s jazz band. Some scenes are based on the life of Charlie Parker, some are from the ...
NEW YEAR'S DAY JAZZ MUSIC - HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022
Jul 02, 2025, 10:28 AM
Here’s to a bright New Year and a fond farewell to the old; here’s to the things that are yet to come, and to the memories that we hold. May you have a prosperous New Year! Here at Relaxriver we compose calming music for passion,
NEW ORLEANS CREATED JAZZ BY MIXING CULTURES ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI - THE TENNESSEAN
Feb 01, 2021, 12:00 AM
Jazz eventually became a music of connoisseurs, but in New Orleans it remains a popular art form. Brass bands play jazz at funerals and behind floats at Mardi Gras parades.
25 BEST JAZZ SONGS FROM THE EARLY DAYS TO TODAY
Feb 22, 2021, 12:00 AM
The result blends jazz, chamber music and hip-hop, such as on this track featuring rapper Kool A.D. Explore Hallowed Sound. How Black voices from the South made American music what it is today;
JAZZ MUSIC THAT GOT US THROUGH ANOTHER YEAR OF THE PANDEMIC - CAPRADIO
Dec 22, 2021, 12:00 AM
Jazz music can have many moods and themes, but as we soon round off our second year in a global pandemic, our hosts found themselves turning to joyful and expressive music. Feel the many moods of ...
HOW 'KIND OF BLUE' BECAME THE BEST-SELLING JAZZ ALBUM EVER
Jan 31, 2009, 12:00 AM
If you own one jazz album, this is probably the one. Fifty years ago, Miles Davis recorded 'Kind of Blue.' ... You don't have to know any music theory to appreciate this music, ...
NEW ORLEANS CREATED JAZZ BY MIXING CULTURES ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI - USA TODAY
Feb 22, 2021, 12:00 AM
Jazz eventually became a music of connoisseurs, but in New Orleans it remains a popular art form. Brass bands play jazz at funerals and behind floats at Mardi Gras parades.
A NOTE FROM KEN BURNS | JAZZ | A FILM BY KEN BURNS - PBS
Sep 05, 2023, 11:18 PM
He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics, Freud is to medicine and the Wright Brothers are to travel. He transformed first instrumental playing, ...
JAZZ VENUES HAVE BEEN HIT PARTICULARLY HARD BY THE PANDEMIC. THEY ARE HOPING THE WORST IS OVER.
Oct 14, 2021, 12:00 AM
While many other historic jazz clubs have closed, Baker’s Keyboard Lounge has survived, thanks in part to its legacy. It claims to be the oldest jazz club in the world and received a $40,000 ...
THE MYSTERIOUS ORIGINS OF JAZZ - BBC
Feb 24, 2017, 12:00 AM
The anniversary of the first jazz recording 100 years ago also marks the beginning of debates that are still ongoing, writes Christian Blauvelt. The five members of the band took the lift to the ...
WHEN JAZZ STOPPED BEING COOL - CNN
Sep 26, 2016, 4:15 PM
Online music streaming isn’t helping jazz either. According to the magazine, jazz was the only genre to have its digital album sales fall between 2011 and 2012.
YOU AREN'T TOO DUMB TO LIKE JAZZ : A BLOG SUPREME : NPR
Aug 27, 2010, 6:47 PM
But even before you get to "complex even for jazz" music, some of jazz's most treasured central precepts -- swing, 12-bar blues, "rhythm changes" or AABA form, solo improvisation ...
JAZZ: A MUSICAL DISCUSSION - THE ATLANTIC
Aug 25, 2017, 6:08 PM
Jazz, as a state of mind, is symptom, not malady. Jazz, in the guise of music is both anodyne and stimulant to the afflicted. To the immune, it is an irritant.