This article was submitted on behalf of Roswell Rudd. Back in the 1960's, avant-garde was one of the terms used to categorize the new music. Because I was coming from Dixieland Jazz into this new ...

Emerging in the late 1940s and early 1950s amid a postwar cultural ferment, avant‑garde jazz carved out a distinct identity by daringly shattering conventional jazz dogma. While bebop and hard bop had ...

James Blood Ulmer, the innovative guitarist who fused avant-garde jazz with funk and the blues, died on June 3, according to a statement his family published via DownBeat. A cause of death was not ...

The fearless free-funk and jazz artist, a student of Ornette Coleman's Harmolodics concept, followed his unorthodox path to a ...

Like free jazz, this interview arose spontaneously from an informal "how are you doin'" telephone conversation between saxophonist Dave Liebman and All About Jazz contributor Vic Schermer. Schermer ...

When music provocateur John Zorn opened The Stone in New York's East Village in 2005, he laid the cornerstone for a downtown temple of avant-garde music. Everything about the tiny, simply furnished ...

Ziggy Elman became widely recognized for blending jazz trumpet with Eastern European musical influences. His lively solos and ...

2023 was an eventful year for acclaimed saxophonist, flutist and composer Anna Webber. She released her new album, Shimmer Wince, in October and was appointed New England Conservatory’s New Jazz ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Tomasz Stanko, a Polish trumpeter, composer and prominent figure in avant-garde and free jazz for decades, died on Sunday at the age of 76, the Polish Jazz Association said. Born in ...

When the lineup was announced for the 25th Concert of Colors — Detroit’s free annual diversity-themed music festival — Griot Galaxy immediately jumped out. No Detroit jazz ensemble is more legendary ...

Earlier this week, an array of news outlets in New York City reported a macabre discovery: The body of a 53-year-old man was found floating in a Queens marina, fully clothed, with chains wrapped ...