The Grammy-nominated trumpeter talks about his latest album and how a residency in Shanghai helped him shed his inhibitions ...

Jazz is complex music that even some professional musicians have difficulty playing. Yet somehow, jazz-band teachers create new jazz musicians out of youngsters who just a few years earlier knew ...

I just got back from my second trip to the Katy Jazz festival, run by a school district just West of Houston. It was time for a jazz fix. You see, I am a jazz fan, and though not compulsive, I do need ...

In 2020, I published A Map of Jazz: Crossroads of Music and Human Rights (WS Publishing), a book that looks at the culture of jazz on a timeline with cultures of the world. At more than 500 pages, the ...

Duke Ellington rejected it, Charles Mingus was ambivalent about it, and Wynton Marsalis is okay with it. For many African American musicians the word “jazz” is a double-edged term, sometimes ...

A school in New Jersey - Jazz House - is becoming a major training ground for young people interested in jazz performance. This story is excerpted from a longer profile on NPR Music's Jazz Night in ...

The international jazz festival Jazz Bishkek Spring takes place in the capital of Kyrgyzstan every year in April, spanning two or three nights across multiple venues. This vibrant event offers a ...

The country has a rich, original relationship to jazz, with American techniques layered into regional traditions and rhythms. Explore 50 years of recordings picked by musicians, poets and writers. By ...

LIMA — The Lima Symphony has announced it will be kicking off its Mornings with the Maestro series with “What is Jazz” at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 8, at the Lima Public Library, 650 W Market Street ...

The NPR Music Tiny Desk Contest got nearly 7,000 entries this year. Here are some of the notable jazz entries. One of the great joys of the NPR Music Tiny Desk Contest is listening to the nearly 7,000 ...