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 ...

Jazz is everywhere, and you’ve probably run into it this year even if you weren’t looking for it. It informs so much of the great hip hop and electronic music that comes out all the time, and it finds ...

Black Friday is a term that has different meanings depending on the context. For some music lovers, it might bring up the Steely Dan song from the 1975 album Katy Lied (ABC). For other music lovers, ...

Hong Kong's best jazz fest launched at the worst possible time. The debut Freespace Jazz Festival, in 2019, struck a bold chord with its choice of A-list international headliners— most especially ...

05 “Free In The Knowledge & A Hairdryer” (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival) 06 “The Smoke” (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival) 07 “You Will Never Work In Television Again” (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival) ...

The two volumes that reach independent record stores on Black Friday, “Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse 1963-1964” and “Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse 1965-1966,” will come out ...

From the beginning, Thumbscrew has had a thing for off-kilter rhythms and shifting accents. This new album is filled with idiosyncratic tunes — music befitting of the idiosyncratic band. The first ...

Laufey Lin, a 24-year-old Icelandic musician and songwriter (known by the mononym Laufey to her fans), never dreamed that her music, which she started writing while she was a college student in Boston ...