Pianist Brad Mehldau, bassist Christian McBride and drummer Marcus Gilmore performing concerts at Stanford, SFJAZZ Center, ...

Jazz Highlights for Record Store Day 2025 article by Kyle Simpler, published on April 3, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more ...

Irvine Barclay Theatre, one of Orange County’s top performing arts venues, will kick off its 35th season of bringing top-tier artists to Southern California with a community celebration of music and ...

Danny Coots and Adam Swanson became friends over a shared love of ragtime and early jazz music, that friendship coming decades after ragtime and early jazz were “new” styles of music. Coots was born ...

Universal Preservation Hall is bringing the smooth, soulful sounds of jazz to the heart of Saratoga Springs with its highly anticipated monthly Sunday Jazz Series. Learn more here!

I went to see the jazz pianist Jason Moran perform at the Village Vanguard in New York City. Playing the music of Duke ...

On this day – March 28 – in 1932, Germaine Bazzle entered the world immersed in music. The jazz singer, with a unique scat, ...

From the early days of swing to modern avant-garde experiments ... This album finds Ornette Coleman continuing to push the boundaries of free jazz. The absence of a piano allows for more harmonic ...

The 1973 album received a rare 10/10 from Pitchfork, who described it as "a jazz-funk masterpiece, a celebration of all that is modern and ancient" Hancock has been playing the piano for almost 80 ...

Meanwhile, pianist Orrin Evans throws a star-studded 50th birthday ... bassist Matt Brewer and drummer Damion Reid has been one of the most adventurous in modern jazz for the last decade and a half, ...

Jumping off with unsung pianist Donald Brown's ... Neil Swainson's Here For A While is a tutorial in modern jazz composition and ensemble synergy. Swainson, a bassist of profound depth and melodic ...

His father, Ellis Marsalis Jr, was a jazz pianist and his mother, Dolores Marsalis, a singer. "I did not want to be famous. I wanted to learn how to play. My standard was my father and all the ...