The Best Albums of 2021? My picks from the world of jazz including some Blue Note Tone Poet Series albums you need to own. It’s that time of year again as we approach mid-December to take a hard look ...

Jazz Fest 2021 dates will be in October 2021, OffBeat has learned from a reputable source. Following up on the announcement of the French Quarter Festival’s 2021 dates from September 30 through ...

More than most, 2021 was a year of mixed results — an endless scroll of gains and losses, halting progress and hard retrenchment. For jazz musicians and the community of listeners around them, it ...

The canceled 2020 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival will get a second chance in 2021. More than a dozen marquee acts announced Thursday for the first-ever fall Jazz Fest – Dead & Company, Stevie ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival announced the daily music schedule for the first-ever Jazz Fest in October and launched single-day ticket sales for the 2021 event ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... December means “best of” list time. And here’s the list I think about putting together all year long. My criteria are pretty simple: What albums, out of the ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...

British trombonist and sound designer KT Reeder's Jazz Mix 12 does not make for easy listening and nor, presumably, is it meant to. It is, however, strangely compelling, as is the music of any artist ...

A hard-bop stalwart. An avant-garde original. A ceiling-shattering bandleader. A bebop-obsessive broadcaster. These are some brief descriptors for the incoming class of NEA Jazz Masters, announced ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...