The opening track – “Ālibek’agnimi” (“አልበቃኝም” in its original title) – is a cool, close-to six-minute soul instrumental on ...

Barely a year after Daniels’ passing, Dumpstaphunk opened the 2025 Jazz Fest nightcap at Tipitina’s with a blistering “Make ...

Good morning, Chicago. In recent decades, some of the Chicago Police Department’s most notorious scandals were perpetrated by ...

If there’s one sound that defines classic jazz, it’s the feel of swing. At its core, swing comes from dividing the beat into ...

BayouWear, the unofficial apparel of Jazz Fest and the mark of an experienced festival attendee, has released its 2026 print ...

Glen Phillips has spent nearly forty years writing songs that balance melodic warmth with emotional honesty. As the lead singer and primary songwriter of Toad the Wet Sprocket, he helped define the ...

After defeating the Timberwolves one night and collapsing against the tanking Jazz the next, the Wine and Gold Talk podcast ...

So... what kind of a year was 2025 for jazz? Well, it marked the centennial of saxophonist Gene Ammons, drummer Roy Haynes, critic Nat Hentoff, pianist Jutta Hipp ...

The Knicks were the team with syncopation, improvisation, rhythm and spontaneity from the start, all the traits that make jazz the wonderful art form it always has been. They also happened to be the ...

It’s been a good year for jazz, diverse in every way—styles, influences, tastes, and demographics too. I didn’t aim the list to turn out this way, but four of the albums’ leaders are women, and five ...

Even though he’s partial to hideous noise, free jazz is mostly unknown to the Guardian’s pop critic. A new guidebook from Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore may change his mind In the 1980s, Sonic Youth’s ...

The Utah Jazz's fifth-overall pick from this summer has officially risen into the conversation of being one of the more productive rookies in the first three weeks of the NBA season. In the newest NBA ...