T he legendary comedian and actor Jackie Gleason often listed “musician,” “composer” and “conductor” as a part of his ...

J ust because we’re deep in autumn’s serenade for John Coltrane’s 100th birthday doesn’t mean we can’t break off some love ...

n Labor Day weekend, downtown Detroit’s Hart Plaza overflowed with jazz fans eager to hear local and national musicians at the 47th annual Detroit Jazz Festival (September 4–7). One of the few major ...

rom 1969 through the late ’90s, listeners to jazz radio in England, Germany, Denmark, Holland and other European countries heard one of the most seductive sounds ever to come out of their speakers: ...

In his 2004 memoir, Chronicles, Volume One, Bob Dylan writes about his early days in New York’s Greenwich Village, when the 21-year-old would eagerly seek out musicians, writers and artists, anyone ...

Honora, the new solo album from Flea, feels like a thinker relearning how to speak. Not metaphorically — literally. Breath becomes language. And what Flea offers here is not fluency, but vulnerability ...

T here are conversations that begin before anyone has spoken, shaped instead by the residue of attention already in the air. The promotional image appears, … Read More “Jazz Vocalist and Composer ...

Perhaps you’ve read my commentary on Pat Metheny’s new Side-Eye album. But there’s more guitar this season. As a start, here are four releases from the first quarter of 2026 that set the bar high and ...

Richard Alan “Richie” Beirach, the quietly dramatic, Brooklyn-born, classically inspired jazz pianist and composer whose earliest works were crucial to the rise of ECM Records, died on January 26, ...

We’re heading toward the end of 2025 and tallying up lists, which might take a few different forms here as December unfolds. But this first list is mine — no committee, no poll, just my subjective ...

JazzTimes is thrilled to present the following exclusive excerpt from NOW JAZZ NOW, co-authored by music writer Byron Coley, baritone saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and iconic Sonic Youth ...

Hermeto Pascoal — the self-taught Brazilian wonder of jazz composition mixed with the sounds of his homeland, who modeled multi-instrumental prowess leading his own ensembles and contributing to ...