National Public Radio evokes a bounty of strong emotions in the United States. Some loathe the idea of publicly funded media while others champion NPR as the last bastion of sensational-free news and ...

San Francisco-Classic Jazz: The Musicians & Recordings that Shaped Jazz, 1895-1933 from Backbeat Books explores the birth and early development of a truly American art form. Written by veteran jazz ...

I write about jazz for The New York Times. Here are six new and noteworthy tracks, from a recently unearthed Don Cherry radio broadcast to Angel Bat Dawid’s remix of Alan Braufman → Charles Lloyd & ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Whatever its shortcomings, American society has made two unquestionably great contributions to the world: jazz and constitutional democracy. But the two rarely ...

In the years since Alice Coltrane passed from this world in 2007, a paradigm shift has occurred. For much of her lifetime, she and her music stood in the shadow of her husband, the late John Coltrane, ...

For most contemporary music consumers, listening to jazz is a historical exercise. Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue is, at the time of writing, still No. 3 on Billboard's Jazz Albums chart 61 years after it ...

An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that KNTU would be broadcasting from the Denton Arts & Jazz Festival this fall. The station's program, news and operations manager says it will not.

On the home-front, 2025 really delivered. Perth singer Holli Scott gave us a memorable session with her inspired 'Weather And Weeds', while emerging saxophonist Tessie Overmyer launched her debut ...

Jazz-funk supergroup Nitecap has released its debut album, Things of That Nature, a 10-track set of original compositions that harkens on the contemporary synth-laden soul with jazz-funk and fusion ...

Prairie Public Radio will air a special jazz night at 9 p.m. Nov. 4. The performance, a once-only gathering of local artists, was recorded live in Fargo. Pictured here are musicians Race Hoglund and ...