More than most, 2021 was a year of mixed results — an endless scroll of gains and losses, halting progress and hard retrenchment. For jazz musicians and the community of listeners around them, it ...

Jazz music can have many moods and themes, but as we soon round off our second year in a global pandemic, our hosts found themselves turning to joyful and expressive music. Feel the many moods of the ...

This year, though, jazz music's preeminent star was one who's been releasing music for almost 60 years: Pharoah Sanders, a reluctant legend whose billowing and sometimes screeching sax can be heard ...

Despite what we’re sometimes led to believe, jazz hasn’t been relegated to the halls of academia, it isn’t background music, and it certainly isn’t dead. It’s constantly in the DNA of the music that ...

The Best Albums of 2021? My picks from the world of jazz including some Blue Note Tone Poet Series albums you need to own. It’s that time of year again as we approach mid-December to take a hard look ...

Saxophonist Sam Gendel, pictured above, had a busy 2021 working on his own projects and contributing to albums such as Mach-Hommy’s “Balens Cho.” (Austen Hooks) Perspective by Andy Beta In 2018, Los ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... December means “best of” list time. And here’s the list I think about putting together all year long. My criteria are pretty simple: What albums, out of the ...

A host of outstanding duet albums emphasized musicians not only collaborating but truly listening to each other. By Giovanni Russonello The violinist and multimedia artist Laura Ortman stood onstage ...

Another year in jazz, and another year in global pandemic jazz. When we look back on these times, I believe we will refer to them much like the designations BC and AD (or BCE and CE, if you like).

Throughout the pandemic, the music’s flexibility has become an asset. Where will artists take it next? Hosted by Jon Caramanica. Produced by Pedro Rosado. Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, jazz’s ...

Pop music had a year like no other, beginning 2021 with shuttered venues and ending with an explosion of concerts. Not that music wasn't being made. In the early months of the year, many musicians ...