The New York City listening room Close Up lives up to its name—and on the evening of Oct. 22, local musicians, industry ...

Margie Baker, a San Francisco-based jazz, blues and gospel singer and educator, died Sept. 27 at age 92. Born on Oct. 11, ...

It’s challenging to pinpoint a defining element of this year’s San Diego Tijuana International Jazz Festival (SDTJ Jazz), ...

Malou Oheix, a 27-year-old singer from Nantes, France, took first place at this year’s Herbie Hancock Institute International ...

Why do standards endure? Duchess, Yoko Miwa & Mikayla Shirley and Lizz Wright & Kenny Banks Jr. offer very personal reflections on the love of performing classic secular and gospel songs. It’s ...

Featuring a near perfect mixture of standard jazz tunes and popular musical mainstays, pianist Nat Adderley Jr.’s Took So Long is a fine trio album. The trio features two bassists (Belden Bullock and ...

Pianist Irène Schweizer has a lustrous and historically deep approach to the piano, informed by her early study of boogie-woogie and stride, and eshed out through the exploration of other traditions: ...

Jazz duets often nod to the delicate side of things by leaning towards the reflective or sentimental, but with the volume cranked this fetching record’s “Mine Are Blues” conjures the hard-swinging ...

Recent efforts like Sunny Five’s Candid remind just how valuable a team player David Torn is. Dude invariably delivers motifs that enhance an ensemble’s direction, even if they shift the design scheme ...

Ran Blake, the master auteur of film noir in notes and tones, offers the latest instantiation of his sui generis improvised dreamscapes on Night Harbor, thanks to one-time student Jared Sims, who ...

Pat Senatore, a well-regarded bassist and club owner, died Sept. 8 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 91. He grew up in the Down Neck neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey. Violin was his first ...

“No matter what you produce or do in your life, the thing you’ll be remembered for is rescuing all that Blue Note material,” Woody Shaw once said of Michael Cuscuna, and Cuscuna is fine with that.