Many, if not most, of today's jazz players end up, sooner or later, becoming composers. Hence, on top of searching for and hopefully finding their personal means of expression when performing ...

For its first full-length release since Hurricane Katrina, Basin Street Records paired leaders from two generations of New Orleans jazz. Irvin Mayfield is a cornerstone of the Basin Street roster as a ...

Noah Preminger is a philosophical, thought-through artist who can gauge the impact of his playing and his thinking on his intended audience. It is interesting to compare Preminger's Ballads to John ...

French vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant will perform newly arranged jazz ballads May 28 at Spoleto Festival USA this year in ways not done before. With the arranging work by Darcy James Argue and ...

We are two female jazz singers, jazz researchers and lovers of jazz. And we have discovered jazz gave us another shared experience – sexism. We’d both experienced garden variety sexism. Wendy was ...