Even among the greatest jazz albums, Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue stands apart. It is the one jazz album everyone has heard of, even if they don’t like jazz, and it is easily the best-selling jazz ...

And right in the middle of it all, Harlem Renaissance music was changing the way the world listened. But most people only ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s been a good year for jazz, diverse in every way—styles, influences, tastes, and demographics too. I didn’t aim the list to ...

Back in the early 1980s, Alex Skolnick was pretty much like any other teenager. He loved electric guitar players like Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads and George Lynch. “I was caught up in the whole ...

If Jaki Byard is most commonly categorized as a proud progenitor of the 'new jazz,' as his seminal work with Eric Dolphy on Outward Bound and Charles Mingus on Black Saint and the Sinner Lady would ...

More than six decades later, its mysterious atmosphere remains utterly unlike anything else in American music Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include ...