Last October, during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, R&B/jazz saxophonist Nick Stone’s wife, Jill, was diagnosed with breast cancer. As s...

The last couple of years have been transformational for trumpeter-singer Ilya Serov both musically and personally. Having released three alb...

You can find Julius Rodriguez in many places. You could walk into a packed jazz haunt and bear witness to him behind the piano with energy p...

Ever since R&B/jazz guitarist Gregory Goodloe scored his first Billboard No. 1 hit five years ago, he’s maintained a consistent presence...

From the opening notes of OR, composer Tracy Yang spreads her wings and flies high and fast. She asserts her brilliance and rightfully decla...

MASK" is the latest offering from songwriter extraordinaire ERIC ROBERSON. The beautifully-written song serves as a continuation of Eri...

Guitarist and composer Brad Shepik will release his ninth album as leader on October 11, 2024. The new offering, Human Activity: Dream of th...

Emiliano Lasansky’s melodies have the potential to simultaneously serve as vehicles to memories and past experiences, and to evoke optimisti...

Pianist and keyboardist Dan Siegel has covered a broad swath of the jazz spectrum over the course of his four-and-a-half decade career, from...

Since making his international debut for Blue Note in 2020 with Modes of Communication: Letters From the Underworlds, the South African pian...

Craft Recordings and Jazz Dispensary celebrate the five-decade-long career of singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Patrice Rushen w...

Meshell Ndegeocello has released the inspiriting new single “Love,” the second song to be revealed from her forthcoming Blue Note album No M...

In his third quartet outing, Toronto-born, Buenos Aires-raised, and Brooklyn-based trumpeter and composer Michael Sarian fulfills a lifelong...

Guitarist Joe Taylor successfully reentered the contemporary jazz space earlier this year after a seventeen-year absence with the release of...

Saxophonist and composer PAUL CARLON has been lucky to be surrounded by talented, artistic women throughout his life. His mother was a visua...

Blue Note Records has announced an August 23 release of Celebration, Volume 1, the first in a series of archival releases that the legendary...

Ever curious about the underexplored corners of jazz history, alto saxophonist Jon De Lucia breathes new life into one important such chapte...

In the summer of 2023, saxophonist and composer Wayne Escoffery found himself alone in a way that he’d never quite experienced before. He wa...