Jan 4, 2017 8:33 PM

Charles Hersch has devoted much of his academic career to examining issues related to creativity and identity. Hersch,…

Jan 3, 2017 7:55 PM

As they approached their 30th anniversary playing together, the members of Trio da Paz—the Brazilian jazz supergroup…

Dec 19, 2016 12:40 PM

Leslie Odom Jr. first rose to prominence as a star in the Broadway mega-hit Hamilton, winning a Tony Award for Best…

Dec 9, 2016 2:28 PM

For his new Christmas album, Jon Batiste, keyboardist, singer and bandleader of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, has…

Dec 8, 2016 4:36 PM

Pianist Frank Kimbrough is a veteran of the New York scene, having spent the past 35 years working alongside such…

Nov 18, 2016 12:28 PM

“The first jazz album I made was with Miles, and the last album he made was with me,” said Michel Legrand during a…

Nov 17, 2016 3:22 PM

For the Le Boeuf brothers, the path through and around jazz has been a circuitous and self-redefining one. For the past…

Nov 17, 2016 2:45 PM

Having gained due recognition for her efforts as Best Collegiate Vocal Jazz Soloist for DownBeat’s 2014 Student Music…

Nov 17, 2016 2:42 PM

Barbara Dane was 22 years old when she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1949, but she’d already developed her…

Nov 17, 2016 2:37 PM

Nina Simone wrote “Mississippi Goddam” out of sheer rage over the events that had occurred during her lifetime, namely…