For decades, the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla has assembled a fusion of styles and sounds for jazz programming at locations such as the library’s Joan & Irwin Jacobs Music Room and the ...

After years of intensive recording projects and concerts for jazz aficionados throughout the U.S., four San Diego-based musicians came together with a purpose: explore the art of song in their own ...

The Persona 30th Anniversary Jazz Album will make the jump from digital to physical with vinyl record releases. The post ...

For those dipping a first toe into jazz, the Miles Davis classic Kind of Blue (Columbia, 1959) is a common initial purchase or listen for many plausible reasons. Web searches for "best jazz albums of ...

All versions carry the same eight reimagined songs from the series' storied history, including "Heaven," "Last Surprise" and ...

It’s officially 2023 year-end list season, and the staff-wide BrooklynVegan list of our favorite albums of the year is just around the corner, but first, here’s a list of 10 jazz albums from this year ...

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 05: (FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Samara Joy winner of Best New Artist and Best Jazz Vocal Album for “Linger Awhile” poses in the press room during the 65th GRAMMY Awards ...

As an afternoon thunderstorm stalks the French Quarter, Charlie Gabriel sits in a crypt-like chamber off Preservation Hall’s private courtyard, focused on his rapidly diminishing prospects. Across the ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to South African musician Jonathon Butler about his new jazz album "Ubuntu," which was inspired his upbringing during the Apartheid and a Zulu philosophy of unity. It's not ...

If you’re not already a fan, your vision of jazz might contain a guy (always a guy) in a fedora playing tenor saxophone in a smoky bar. Or a self-satisfied aficionado waxing poetic about a rare ...

Even if you aren’t actively seeking out jazz, it’s inescapable. It directly informs so much hip hop and electronic music, and we frequently hear it popping up in punk, metal, and indie rock too. It ...