Here's a strange thought: Free music downloads available legally are better than what the masses are stealing. Either allows jazz fans to collect a diverse library large enough to listen to ...

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 ...

"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 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The tunes carried over to downtown Springfield for the last September Soul weekend. In conjunction with MIFA’s presentation, Dewey’s Jazz Lounge hosted a free jazz music ...

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 ...

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 ...

First published in 1977, journalist, author and black music historian Val Wilmer's As Serious As Your Life... makes a welcome print return at a time when jazz excites perhaps greater and more ...

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 ...