Malou Oheix, a 27-year-old singer from Nantes, France, took first place at this year’s Herbie Hancock Institute International ...

The New York City listening room Close Up lives up to its name—and on the evening of Oct. 22, local musicians, industry ...

It’s challenging to pinpoint a defining element of this year’s San Diego Tijuana International Jazz Festival (SDTJ Jazz), ...

Margie Baker, a San Francisco-based jazz, blues and gospel singer and educator, died Sept. 27 at age 92. Born on Oct. 11, ...

Why do standards endure? Duchess, Yoko Miwa & Mikayla Shirley and Lizz Wright & Kenny Banks Jr. offer very personal reflections on the love of performing classic secular and gospel songs. It’s ...

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Benny Goodman used Billie on a record (Columbia) of “My Mother’s Son In Law” when [Jack] Teagarden, [Gene] Krupa and others were in his recording band—before he really organized his present combo. The ...

Miguel Zenón’s recent forays into Latin American songbooks have yielded some of his most rapturous music yet. As the follow-up to 2019’s sumptuous Sonero (The Music Of Ismael Rivera), on which he ...

Featuring a near perfect mixture of standard jazz tunes and popular musical mainstays, pianist Nat Adderley Jr.’s Took So Long is a fine trio album. The trio features two bassists (Belden Bullock and ...

The vocalist’s first solo effort, 1971’s aptly titled All By Myself, still hued toward classic Motown, so when Kendricks was set to record its follow-up, People ... Hold On, he enlisted a new raft of ...

On Shadow, Wright has taken the words of vocalist Nina Simone to heart — that an artist must reflect her times. (Photo: Tony Smith) Twenty years ago, Lizz Wright emerged as an astounding new voice in ...

Everything about pianist Ben Markley’s new large ensemble project feels classic. (Photo: Courtesy Ben Markley) A recent caller to my radio show expressed surprise that big band was music still being ...