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: ...

eanie Bryson, a jazz singer whose languid, confidential purr, minimalist phrasing and gauzy mood-setting marked her as a stylistic daughter of Shirley Horn and Peggy Lee, has died at 68. She had been ...

ere are A.D. Amorosi’s monthly picks, coming to you the last Tuesday of the month. Ralph Alessi, A Sun That Never Sets (ECM Records) In his move from quartet to quintet and the fortification of an ...

The 1966 album Miles Smiles is readily available in all formats. Listeners will have no trouble locating and listening to “Circle,” a Miles Davis composition, the album’s second track. But they will ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jim McNeely with John Scofield offstage at the DiMenna Center. Photo credit: Tracy Yang For the noted large-ensemble jazz composers who came together to conduct and play the music of mentor and ...

Even among all the fiercely offbeat singers who sprang out of modern jazz in the 1940s and ’50s, Sheila Jordan stood out. Her sound, she admitted, “took some getting used to.” It was high, fluttery ...