After the great success of "Elevator Music" you cannot miss the new Christmas Playlist of Ambient Jazz Songs! The elevator ...

Musicians both established and up-and-coming stretched themselves in fresh ways over the last year, creating poignant moments of collaboration and challenge. By Hank Shteamer In 2024, jazz continued ...

Herbie Hancock, who at 85 years young is one of the elder statesmen and authorities of jazz, says jazz is a spirit. Though traditions of the genre remain consistent through the decades, jazz has also ...

The opening pages of a book are like the start of any performance. The lights go up. Your skin prickles. Ideally a writer will open big and close bigger, as they say in the theater. In between, he or ...

Deciding what show to see during Jazz Fest in downtown Rochester can be overwhelming, especially if you're unfamiliar with the artist coming to town. The 2023 Rochester International Jazz Festival ...

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 ...

It may be coincidence, or just a reflection of my own state of mind, that this dreadful year’s list of favorite jazz albums leans toward the meditative, the balladic, the Romantic, sometimes the Zen, ...

On a personal note, this is unlike any "best of the year" summaries I've written during my more than twenty-five years as a reviewer for All About Jazz. The reason is that I fell in late April and ...