The Modern Jazz Quartet was a major jazz institution, a band that, counting a seven-year “vacation,” lasted 43 years. During a time when jazz musicians were stereotyped as unreliable, rarely sober and ...

There are plenty of fictional stories about utopian societies where life is good and everybody gets along. Of course, the word utopia literally means "no place," suggesting that an actual utopia is ...

A lot of jazz people love The Modern Jazz Quartet, but maybe not all the time. Some of them just wait for the parts when vibraphonist Milt Jackson gets to swinging — that was also Jackson's favorite ...

The jazz world has lost one of its brightest stars. Sonny Rollins, the legendary tenor saxophonist known as the “Saxophone Colossus,” has died at 95. His family confirmed that Rollins passed away at ...

Jazz has a rich history, and modern black male jazz singers continue pushing the genre forward. This list highlights 30 talented artists shaping jazz’s future with their unique voices, innovative ...

A restless innovator who never stopped searching for new sounds, the jazz icon spent more than seven decades reshaping modern improvisation and influencing generations of musicians. According to ...

Somewhere between the Mercury Prize, sweaty Windmill gigs, and Fred again.. befriending Ezra Collective, jazz has stopped ...

MURRAY HORWITZ, American Film Institute: If that music makes you feel a little wistful, a little nostalgic, there's a reason. Hi, I'm Murray Horwitz, and today, we're ...