You may have noticed that most of our playlists are made up of songs that are rock or pop or some amalgamation thereof. While short songs with a straightforward 4/4 beat can be great for running, ...

I write about jazz for The New York Times. Here are six new and noteworthy tracks, from a recently unearthed Don Cherry radio broadcast to Angel Bat Dawid’s remix of Alan Braufman → Charles Lloyd & ...

First, a warning: there is no Michael Bublé on this list. Or Diana Krall. Or anything that sounds remotely like Kenny G. Jazz was never meant to be the tepid Muzak you have to endure in hotel lobbies ...

Remember when jazz was a so-called "dance" music? When swing drove masses to ballrooms and inspired popular dances like the Lindy Hop, Charleston and Jitterbug? Probably not; most of us will never ...

On the whole, jazz musicians stay somewhat connected to today's pop and rock -- even if it's only because playing rock/metal/country/salsa/soul/hip-hop/whatever pays ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...

Gilad Chatsav's third album, Jazz from the Middle to the East—Songs from Tel Aviv, grabs you from the start. Not necessarily because of its musical ingenuity, but because of its diversity of styles ...

Ted Gioia is a prolific writer and a good one. Readers probably know him through his books and articles about jazz, but Mr. Gioia is a polymath and writes on a wide range of subjects. In this ...

Few musicians have been as delightfully and fascinatingly weird as Sun Ra. He was born Herman Poole Blount, changed his name to honor the Egyptian god of the sun, believed he was an angelic being from ...

For the annual celebration of Juneteenth, today's jazz luminaries — musicians such as Jason Moran, Christian McBride, Orrin Evans, Jeremy Pelt... Five Jazz Songs That Speak Of The Freedom Struggle ...

Anders Larson, founder and trombonist of jazz group Elektrojazz, has a passion for cars from the 1970s. But Landers makes his living playing jazz and he's settled in Denmark, and he can't afford the ...