Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It may be coincidence, or just a reflection of my own state of mind, that this dreadful year’s list of favorite jazz albums leans ...

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 ...

In 1952, the Oscar Peterson Trio took the stage at Carnegie Hall and delivered a rendition of “Tenderly” that became more than just a performance - it became legend. With Ray Brown on bass and Barney ...

Here are my entries (and a taste of their music) for the 19th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll for the best jazz recordings and archival/reissues of 2024. The full results from all 177 writers ...

Focus trio’s Mathew Munzner and Israel Corona-Galan (above) and Brendan Castro (below) crammed into the WNHH FM studio. Credit: Paul Bass Photos Fourteen years after Israel Corona-Galan started ...

Ron Carter turned 88 in May, 2025. That fact is hard to reconcile with the continuing vitality and frequency of his performances, including those with two small groups at Birdland Jazz Club this month ...

It’s a hip record. Forget the seasonal-only listening, as The Vince Guaraldi Trio’s soundtrack to Charles Schultz’s “Peanuts” classic “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is and forever will be great listening ...

Esbjörn Svensson Trio (or e.s.t. — not to be confused with Electro Shock Therapy and an Italian band, which currently redirects here: Mostrati), (formed 1990) were a Swedish jazz piano trio with ...

Pianist Monty Alexander, bassist John Clayton and drummer Jeff Hamilton have all headlined on Aspen stages in recent years — but the trio has never played here together. The brilliant jazz trio is ...

Trio Glossia began without much in the way of a concrete plan. A dynamic three-piece steeped in the long, proud history of North Texas avant-garde jazz, Trio Glossia — tenor saxophonist and drummer ...