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The drummer for the Branford Marsalis Quartet is also the jazz director at the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra Music Institute.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After much consternation, I’ve managed to pare down a long list of fine jazz-improv recordings from 2025 to a top 10. So, apologies to Marshall Allen, The ...

This has been the year that musicians collaborated and cross-pollinated, experimented within and outside jazz. Best of all, some of the more avant-garde musicians seemed to find value in sculpting ...

DANBURY -- Think of some of the greatest jazz musicians of the past half century -- Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan, ...

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 ...

The number of albums released year upon year seems to grow exponentially, with self-released albums increasingly the norm. Much of the most interesting and courageous modern jazz is released on small, ...

Essentially Ellington once again brought the world’s best high school jazz musicians to New York. Over the last 30 years, the event has reshaped how jazz is taught. The atmosphere was festive at the ...

NORTHAMPTON You know your jazz festival isn’t “missing a beat” when Downbeat Magazine — considered by many as the best jazz magazine in the world — pays attention to you. “Mention the word ‘festival’ ...

Charles McPherson is an American alto saxophonist and composer with a career spanning eight decades. He has worked closely with a host of artists, among whom are some considered to be originators and ...

Elmhurst University’s annual Jazz Festival, one of the oldest and best-known collegiate festivals in the region, will bring together musicians from area high schools and colleges, as well as Germany’s ...