The Jazz Age was a time of excess, creativity, and passion that lunged jazz music into the mainstream. It produced music icons like Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, whose innovative sounds advanced ...

I know it's hard to imagine with today's governmental overreach telling people what cars to drive, what bathrooms to use, and the highest personal, property and commercial taxes of any state in the ...

Kermit Ruffins has spent decades carrying the sound of New Orleans through brass bands, neighborhood shows, and jazz ...

February is Black History Month, and each week all month, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison is joining us to talk about a different trailblazer of Black music. These mavericks took musical risks ...

One of the more adventurous and transformative eras in jazz happened amid the societal turbulence of the mid- to late-1960s, and Miles Davis and John Coltrane were leading the way. In his new book ...

Renowned trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis has launched a new project, a kind of call and response for these times.

The history of jazz in Ukraine can be traced fairly precisely according to academic, literature teacher and jazz journalist Alexander Yudin. Writing in The History Of European Jazz: The Music, ...

In 1988, noted author, journalist, poet, activist and jazz aficionado Kalamu ya Salaam produced an album titled “The New New Orleans Music” that celebrated the richness of the modern jazz scene in New ...

On Dec. 9, 1964, saxophonist John Coltrane, bassist Jimmy Garrison, pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones assembled at Englewood Cliffs, N.J.’s Van Gelder Studio. That one-day session became a ...

Toledo has historically been a stop for jazz musicians, especially those traveling between Chicago and Detroit. For almost 90 years, the Peacock Café has been a spot that resonates with musicians.

The 2025 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival picks back up on Thursday, May 1, for another four-day run at the Fair Grounds. With hundreds of performances, it's hard to know where to start. So Gambit ...