This episode highlights music almost exclusively from the 21st century, including Kassa Overall, Detroit’s Geri Allen and more.

The Modern Jazz Quartet was a major jazz institution, a band that, counting a seven-year “vacation,” lasted 43 years. During a time when jazz musicians were stereotyped as unreliable, rarely sober and ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Four celebrated jazz musicians of the 21st century are paying homage to jazz’s most celebrated historic foursome ...

The recent natural disasters in Japan, and the scale of the resulting devastation, leave even those of us far outside the country with a sense of sadness and loss. We are bound by humanity, but also ...

Even now, nearly sixty years later, it seems improbable that a group which came together as the rhythm section for one of the hottest players in bebop's genesis era, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, could ...

Jazz, with its roots in African American culture and its ability to constantly change, has made a wide array of styles over the years. From its origins in New Orleans to its global impact today, jazz ...

Le nom de cette danse nous dit toutes quelque chose. Pourtant, elle reste méconnue du grand public. Après sa formation en danse Jazz au Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre aux Etats-Unis, Patricia Greenwood ...

Il se disait «à l’aise dans tous ces styles de musique ». Le trompettiste Miles Davis ou le pianiste Keith Jarrett appréciaient sa maestria à la batterie. Figure majeure du jazz moderne américain, ...