For some, the Internet Archive is nothing more than a place for Grateful Dead bootlegs and trips in the Wayback Machine (wasn't NPR.org a sad little Web presence back in 1998?). But the site also ...

The first real conversation I ever had with Lars Gotrich was about the Peter Brotzmann and Han Bennink U.S. duo tour of 2007. That's how I knew dude was OK in my eyes. Lars keeps tabs on the whole ...

Charlie "Bird" Parker (1920-1955) may have left this earth at the young age of 34, but his contribution to music history was much more than a grace note. Every time a horn player attempts to play it ...

For some, Ken Burns’ 2001 PBS series Jazz was a definitive, open-and-shut take on its subject, as comprehensive a portrait of the genre as one could hope for. For others, the series was a major slight ...

The beautiful souls that created free jazz — including Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry and Carla Bley — light up this new documentary from Tom Surgal. By Glenn Kenny When you purchase a ...