This year's unmissable jazz releases came in two flavors: breakthrough releases by driven young newcomers, and a heap of unearthed treasures from... For anyone in the habit of touting jazz as a living ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Orleans jazz legend Donald Harrison plays his jazz version of "When the Saints Go Marching In." Jazz is a genre of ...

About two decades ago, I heard Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, and it floored me. It’s the best selling jazz album of all time, and if there’s one album that truly started an obsession with jazz, it was ...

Charlie Parker, born in 1920, is the Orson Welles of jazz, the musician who, sparking an artistic revolution while still in his own extreme youth, both rejuvenated the art form metaphorically and ...

While finishing “Bird-Watcher," a Profile of the jazz broadcaster and expert Phil Schaap, I thought it might be useful to compile a list of a hundred essential jazz albums, more as a guide for the ...

While finishing “Bird-Watcher," a Profile of the jazz broadcaster and expert Phil Schaap, I thought it might be useful to compile a list of a hundred essential jazz albums, more as a guide for the ...