Despite all that, Bop’s first sun-splashed outing is an unrelenting joy – a peppy, ’70s AM radio-inspired wonder on which James’ deft songwriting out-dazzles the impressively heavy construction. If ...

Philadelphia trumpeter Jafar Barron offers an impressively cohesive mix of bebop, hip hop and spoken word on his debut album on Q Records. But jazz purists (at least those with open ears) need not ...

Is jazz showing its age? (From the July, 1996, issue of The Atlantic Monthly.) A selective guide to jazz sites on the Web. It isn't just the generation gap between today's most popular jazz musicians ...

With the arrival of Wynton Marsalis on the scene in 1979 was the beginning of a renaissance on the jazz scene that was to involve a reappraisal of the acoustic jazz tradition that had been left ...

‘Beat scientist’ McCraven balances jazz’s tradition with its future, sympathetically updating the Blue Note hard-bop 60s catalogue Like Miles Davis, the Chicago drummer, remix producer and “beat ...

Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell: They altered the course of American music and raised the bar for improvisation. Listen to 10 experts’ favorites. By Giovanni Russonello What five minutes ...