Branford Marsalis, Joshua White and Patricia Brennan are just some of the artists who released head-turning albums this year.

Jakob Bro’s Bill Frisell collaboration finally saw the light, Cécile McLorin Salvant drew on her teenage pop memories and Anthony Braxton looked back to 1985 ...

KNKX receives thousands of fresh songs per year for programming consideration. Here are the jazz releases from 2025 that rose ...

One of Columbus' tasty festivals returns this weekend, offering funky music and smoky meats. Columbus Recreation and Parks Department has hosted the Jazz & Rib Fest for more than 40 years, bringing ...

From modern jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette to masterful scatter and vocalist Nancy King, KNKX remembers the lives of notable jazz musicians who passed away this year.

If you think about it a certain way, one of the defining qualities of jazz is earnestness. This is one of the reasons why jazz and metal have so much in common, and so often appeal to the same ...

New Orleans’ streets echo with the sounds of brass bands, and iconic venues like Preservation Hall offer an intimate experience with traditional jazz. Also, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival ...

A documentary telling Detroit’s jazz legacy premieres at the 2024 Freep Film Festival. A local documentary premiering at the 2024 Freep Film Festival, “The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit,” ...

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, ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- The Mingus Awareness Project will descend on Richmond this weekend. The concert series featuring some of Richmond's most accomplished jazz musicians and raises money for the ALS ...

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 ...