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 ...
Bria Skonberg takes classic songs and the hot jazz style of the 1910s, ’20s, ’30s and ’40s and yanks them into the 21st century. The trumpet player and singer, who makes her local debut at the JAS ...
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 ...
Rising young talents and revered veterans helped take jazz to a multitude of exciting new destinations in 2025. But the most notable debut album of the year, the aptly titled “New Dawn,” came from a ...
A couple great duet records were recently reissued by Craft Recordings as part of its ongoing series of Latin reissues. Especially exciting is the debut by Panamanian singer/songwriter Ruben Blades, ...
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 ...
The first three LP reissues from the Time Traveler imprint indicate that, with a discography of 500 albums, the Muse Records catalog contains many classics ripe for rediscovery. Why the new label?
One of the points to ponder for music fans during the next couple weeks is if they favor works by a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer or Grammy-winning musicians. Fortunately, if the answer is simply ...
He’s been called the “Frank Sinatra of the DMV.” But 26-year-old singer Daniel Murray has been making a name for himself too — as the Gen Z artist bringing back jazz and the vocal stylings of classic ...
The Crocodile might’ve waddled a few blocks north, but opposite the old venue at Second Avenue and Blanchard Street, a new music night is taking shape in the heart of Belltown. In the summer of 2024, ...
No big jazz-pop crossover star broke out in 2019, and nobody hijacked the conversation with an incendiary comment requiring some “OK Boomer” clapback. Jazz stuck to its own steadfast devices this year ...
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