Jazz is music made in the moment and our moment is an increasingly perilous one. As a writer trying to keep up, I often feel as if I’ve exhausted the power of words to describe where we are, how we ...

Branford Marsalis, Joshua White and Patricia Brennan are just some of the artists who released head-turning albums this year.

The history of jazz music is told in hundreds of cities from coast to coast in America. From the cradle in New Orleans and the Mississippi River delta, the great migration of Black Americans northward ...

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 ...