For seven decades, Verve Records has helped shape the sound and spirit of jazz, documenting legendary performers while championing music th...

Twenty-five years after it helped define one of the most distinctive sounds in contemporary vocal jazz , Diana Krall ’s The Look of Love is...

Kansas City’s jazz scene has plenty of reasons to turn up the volume this fall. Pianist, composer and bandleader Michael Pagán returns with...

There was a time when the perfect soundtrack to a New York evening could be found on the radio. As the city lights came on and the streets b...

Transformation begins with a willingness to move forward, and R&B/jazz keyboardist Charles A. Kelly is putting that philosophy into mot...

  Long before the saxophone became synonymous with the smoky clubs of the swing era and the boundary-pushing sounds of bebop, the instrument...

For more than six decades, Ray Charles ’ legendary 1964 concert at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium existed only in incomplete form. Now, Tan...

For two decades, the Paris-based ensemble Ghost Rhythms has been building a musical universe that refuses to stay inside conventional genre...

Nearly 70 years after Louis Armstrong and His All Stars performed before 1,200 fans at Highland Park High School outside Chicago, a remarka...

Few bandleaders in jazz created a lasting musical legacy quite like Art Blakey . As the driving force behind the Jazz Messengers , Blakey wa...

A legendary chapter in jazz history returns to vinyl this Record Store Day Black Friday with The Sound in San Francisco: Live at Keystone K...