Ashley Monroe featuring Marty Stuart, ‘The Touch’ Understatement, so rare in current country production, burnishes “The Touch,” a song that promises lasting love. “As long as...
By Hank Shteamer Video by Ariel Fisher April 23, 2025 Jason Moran has spent the past year living with the music of Duke Ellington, playing a...
The recording is a meaningful one for Don Was, who’s served as president of Blue Note since 2011. “James Spaulding! Man, I don’t know if he...
Billie Holiday is one of the foremost vocalists in jazz, whose emotional depth and unique phrasing inspired generations of singers to experiment with form and pitch...
“I’m a product of American Apartheid,” the artist Jack Whitten wrote, a blunt fact that led him to project, in his art, a very different reality,...
Marsalis has tackled imposing jazz masterworks before, covering the entirety of John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” in the studio and onstage in the early 2000s, but...
Invited onto Tokyo’s jazz circuit, he sat in on “incredibly moving” gigs with John Coltrane’s drummer Elvin Jones in 1979 and ’81. (Shimizu’s bebop phrasings can...
Larry Appelbaum, a music archivist who over a long career at the Library of Congress helped make it a leading center for research into the history...
Betty Bonney was already a veteran big-band vocalist at 17 when she joined Les Brown and His Orchestra in 1941 — in time to sing the...
Roy Ayers, a vibraphonist who in the 1970s helped pioneer a new, funkier strain of jazz, becoming a touchstone for many artists who followed and one...
