18-year-old Miami musician takes home Grammy for Latin jazz Eighteen-year-old saxophonist Joey Calveiro is making history — not just for himself, but for the city he calls home. MIAMI — ...

The Temple University Jazz Band is releasing its first internationally-recorded album Friday, "Live from Japan: Volume One." Terell Stafford, the project band director, said it captures the group's ...

2025 was a great year for jazz. Below are my reviews for the year, from established artists like Brad Mehldau, John Scofield, and Celine McLorin Salvant to rising talents like Christian Pabst and ...

Bay Area jazz fans have been watching the career of Julian Lage for, well, most of his life. And we mean that pretty much literally, given that he was a child prodigy and the focus of a documentary ...

When saxophonist Kate Olson won the 2024 Earshot Jazz Golden Ear Award for Northwest Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year, she took to the blue-lit Royal Room stage and delivered her heartfelt thanks to a ...

Rising young talents and revered veterans helped take jazz to a multitude of exciting new destinations in 2025. But the most notable debut album of the year, the aptly titled “New Dawn,” came from a ...

Peter Criss really doesn’t want you to buy his new album digitally. The former Kiss drummer has put his brand-new self-titled solo album for sale at industry-standard prices for vinyl ($33) and ...

So... what kind of a year was 2025 for jazz? Well, it marked the centennial of saxophonist Gene Ammons, drummer Roy Haynes, critic Nat Hentoff, pianist Jutta Hipp ...

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 ...

The most compelling releases of the year reimagined hip-hop tracks, deep-rooted collaborations and longstanding inspirations. By Hank Shteamer In a year that saw the deaths of two leading drummers, ...

It’s been a good year for jazz, diverse in every way—styles, influences, tastes, and demographics too. I didn’t aim the list to turn out this way, but four of the albums’ leaders are women, and five ...

It’s been a good year for jazz, diverse in every way—styles, influences, tastes, and demographics too. I didn’t aim the list to turn out this way, but four of the albums’ leaders are women, and five ...