Caroling and choirs abound during the holiday season in New Orleans, but so do less traditional performances — including a night of holiday music dedicated to free-jazz icon Albert Ayler and a ...

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 the avant-garde, it was liberating. It just changed everything." Submarine Ent. has debuted the doc trailer for Fire Music: The Story of Free Jazz, about the exciting free jazz movement of the ...

In the continuously evolving history of artistic expression, certain movements emerge that challenge the very foundations of our aesthetic sensibilities. In the early and mid-20th century, ...

For ezz-thetics' revisited series' fourth Ornette Coleman album, the label has ventured back further than any of its previous Coleman albums, to New York City in December 1960 and January 1961.

One of the more adventurous and transformative eras in jazz happened amid the societal turbulence of the mid- to late-1960s, and Miles Davis and John Coltrane were leading the way. In his new book ...

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 ...

NJPAC's 2026 Season of Jazz events. Thu 1.22 @ 7:30 p.m. Jazz Jams at Clement’s Place. Co-presented by NJPAC’s Jazz Advisory Committee and Rutgers RU_N’s Institute for Jazz ...

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 ...