GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO

The flute is one of the more overlooked instruments in jazz, but it’s been making an impact on improvised music for more than 50 years....

All it might take is a second and a half of hearing her sing to make your spine tingle or your heart drop. Opera singers,...

Many cities have rich jazz histories, but none goes back as far as New Orleans. We asked Wendell Pierce, Courtney Bryan and others what song...

Through Saint Heron, the musician brought Angélla Christie and the Clark Sisters for a night exploring Black religious music, and Linda Sharrock and Archie Shepp...

We asked a dozen musicians, scholars and critics to help take us on a tour of the music and mind of a pianist whose decades-long...

The saxophonist, who died on Thursday at 89, redefined jazz composition by embracing the unknown. Listen to nine of his recordings with Miles Davis, Joni...

We’ve done a lot of listening back. So where is jazz today? Writers and musicians including Sonny Rollins, Melanie Charles and Terri Lyne Carrington share...

Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong were A-list celebrities at the top of their art form. Today’s jazz singers are finding new paths....

In a year of growth and reflection, the music stretched and relocated in often unpredictable ways.

The jazz pianist is an inheritor more than an innovator, but he puts the past to use in service of fun, blending genres and embodying...