Happy Jazz Appreciation Month, a fitting time for music critics to name their pick for the greatest jazz song of all time.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After much consternation, I’ve managed to pare down a long list of fine jazz-improv recordings from 2025 to a top 10. So, apologies to Marshall Allen, The ...

Check out some of the stellar musical acts going on around town this week and you might find your toes tapping along too.

The Crocodile might’ve waddled a few blocks north, but opposite the old venue at Second Avenue and Blanchard Street, a new music night is taking shape in the heart of Belltown. In the summer of 2024, ...

The number of albums released year upon year seems to grow exponentially, with self-released albums increasingly the norm. Much of the most interesting and courageous modern jazz is released on small, ...

Rising young talents and revered veterans helped take jazz to a multitude of exciting new destinations in 2025. But the most notable debut album of the year, the aptly titled “New Dawn,” came from a ...

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Here are my entries (and a taste of their music) for the 19th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll for the best jazz recordings and archival/reissues of 2024. The full results from all 177 writers ...

I always wanted to write how Miles Davis talked: abrupt, profane, contemptuous, in a stiletto rhythm that jabbed and stung and threw off unexpected sparks of enlightenment and tenderness. Of course, ...

Universal Music Group‘s Global Classics & Jazz division has launched Everything Jazz, a new digital platform and online store ...

The packaging for the physical versions of the box set will include liner notes, previously unseen photos, and original artwork by Mitchell. [RELATED: Joni Mitchell to Release the Archives, Vol. 4 Box ...