Even after 40 years of jazzy harmonizing, Moore By Four still needs to rehearse. So bandleader Sanford Moore prepared a ...

Albums like To Pimp a Butterfly and 1999 blend jazz harmonies with sharp lyricism, proving the genre’s deep connection. Hip-hop may keep evolving, but funk and jazz remain its heartbeat, fueling its ...

Imagine, if you will, the musical equivalent of a black-tie gala crashing into an abstract art exhibit. This is Uncharted Harmonies, where Perry Como, the man whose voice could soothe a charging bull, ...

This is Joe Gideon’s morning mantra — reassuring himself that every day would be as indelibly entertaining as the last. Whether or not any performance is on the docket, to Gideon, protagonist of “All ...

Twenty-four seconds into Cole Porter’s “What Is This Thing Called Love?” which opens the new two-disc release “In Harmony” (Resonance), trumpeter Roy Hargrove states the melody before setting off on ...

Ravita Jazz’s Alice Blue is one of the best, most consistently intriguing and engaging contemporary jazz albums of 2025. O’s Place Magazine calls Ravita: ”One of the finest jazz bassists outside of ...

The meteorological apocalypse predicted for Saturday bypassed the New Orleans Jazz Fest entirely. By mid-afternoon, the sun even broke through the clouds. Thus, thousands of fans stomped through the ...