Musicians both established and up-and-coming stretched themselves in fresh ways over the last year, creating poignant moments of collaboration and challenge. By Hank Shteamer In 2024, jazz continued ...

As I’ve said in a few recent editions of these best-of columns, it’s been a dreadful year for most things but a fine one for music, which, as the verse contends, “has charms to soothe a savage breast, ...

For anyone in the habit of touting jazz as a living art form, it can feel both nourishing and a little perilous to stand in awe at the wonders of the past. It's especially tricky in a year when some ...

As befits a music that constantly draws from the past and the present to forge exciting new paths to the future, jazz was in constant motion in 2023. It was a year marked by major triumphs, major ...

Back in the late sixties, when rock musicians started to explore more complex things, the music became at the same time more interesting and, well, complicated at the same time. It was the advent of ...

Jazz can be a confusing genre if you don’t know a ton about it. There are lots of records out there to investigate and the sounds can be challenging. Some music listeners want to know what they’re ...

The post 10 Essential Autumn Jazz Albums Samara Joy Thinks Everyone Should Own appeared first on Consequence. “Winning one Grammy wasn’t on my bingo card for my life, and winning three was completely ...

Clarinetist and composer Jahnvi Madan, who won the 2023 Earshot Pacific Northwest Emerging Artist of the Year award, just ...

If you think about it a certain way, one of the defining qualities of jazz is earnestness. This is one of the reasons why jazz and metal have so much in common, and so often appeal to the same ...

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