From San Diego and Tijuana to Tangier, Morocco, jazz was celebrated here, there and nearly everywhere in 2024 as a vital means of artistic expression and creative liberation. Or, as expatriate Cuban ...

The capital’s biggest annual music event, the EFG London Jazz Festival, runs 15 - 24 November and tickets are selling fast. Headliners will include Jamie Cullum, Pat Metheny, Dianne Reeves, Robert ...

From bebop to hip-hop, improvised music to Persian jazz, plus a strong selection of jazz on film, the EFG London Jazz Festival’s latest edition delivered a brilliant lineup. ByJoanne Shurvell, ...

The consistency of impressive quality in the worlds of jazz and blues in Nashville allows fans to enjoy great music year-round. The amount of noteworthy events makes it impossible to cite everything ...

Record Store Day Black Friday is back for 2024. There are releases that appeal to practically every genre of music, and jazz is no exception. This year's lineup features releases for jazz enthusiasts ...

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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 ...

Here are my entries (and a taste of their music) for the 19th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll for the best jazz recordings and archival/reissues of 2024. The full results from all 177 writers ...