Malou Oheix, a 27-year-old singer from Nantes, France, took first place at this year’s Herbie Hancock Institute International ...

Why do standards endure? Duchess, Yoko Miwa & Mikayla Shirley and Lizz Wright & Kenny Banks Jr. offer very personal reflections on the love of performing classic secular and gospel songs. It’s ...

Huntertones returned to the old-school way of recording for its latest album, Transmission. All six bandmates were in one ...

The Marcus Belgrave Story, bassist Endea Owens discusses a difficult chapter in her life during which she questioned whether ...

Pat Senatore, a well-regarded bassist and club owner, died Sept. 8 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 91. He grew up in the ...

The pairing of Terence Blanchard and Ravi Coltrane was billed as “The Miles/Coltrane Legacy,” a tour celebrating the twin centennials of 2026, focusing on the sounds and spirit they produced together ...

Pianist Irène Schweizer has a lustrous and historically deep approach to the piano, informed by her early study of boogie-woogie and stride, and eshed out through the exploration of other traditions: ...

Just when you thought pandemic-related albums were becoming downers, Renee Rosnes offers the perfect elixir with Kinds Of Love. It’s not that she skirts the troubling aspects of the past ...

Recent efforts like Sunny Five’s Candid remind just how valuable a team player David Torn is. Dude invariably delivers motifs that enhance an ensemble’s direction, even if they shift the design scheme ...

Jazz duets often nod to the delicate side of things by leaning towards the reflective or sentimental, but with the volume cranked this fetching record’s “Mine Are Blues” conjures the hard-swinging ...

Ran Blake, the master auteur of film noir in notes and tones, offers the latest instantiation of his sui generis improvised dreamscapes on Night Harbor, thanks to one-time student Jared Sims, who ...

At just 23, jazz vocalist, pianist, and actor ISABELLA ISHERWOOD steps onto the national stage with THE SWEETEST SOUNDS, a debut album that reveals a mature artist with a strong command of lyrics, ...