This April, at the National Museum of American History, we’re celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month! Check out the calendar to learn more! Amy Kehs Jazz Appreciation Month JAZZ April is Jazz ...

Why was jazz eclipsed by rock and other forms of music? Here are three theories A new book from photographer Jim Marshall shows jazz when it was still widely popular “Jazz is dead.” Jazz connoisseurs ...

Longtime Chicago Tribune music critic Howard Reich penned "The Majesty of Jazz: 25 Visionaries Who Defined the City's Sound." ...

Jazz was all over the place in 2022. I mean that as a compliment, and with an intended double meaning: We saw some great examples of improvisers flowing through the culture, and we also heard ...

This is always a difficult list to compile because the word “experimental” so often means music that is difficult to categorize. Or difficult to describe. Or just difficult. But these are some of our ...

Music filled Kerrytown Concert House Wednesday to Saturday as it hosted the 30th annual Edgefest, a celebration of avant-garde jazz.

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 ...

Levine Music's jazz program will be named the Ella Fitzgerald Jazz Program, recognizing a multi-year leadership gift from the ...

A theologian (and amateur musician) explores the connection between them. William Edgar’s new book, A Supreme Love: The Music of Jazz and the Hope of the Gospel, is itself a work of love. Edgar, ...

For most contemporary music consumers, listening to jazz is a historical exercise. Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue is, at the time of writing, still No. 3 on Billboard's Jazz Albums chart 61 years after it ...