In a concert and ceremony at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, the National Endowment for the Arts recognized its 2014…

This week’s Winter Jazzfest seems to be a kind of turning point — for the festival, and maybe for jazz in New York…

One of America’s most important — and controversial — literary figures, Amiri Baraka, died on Thursday from complications after surgery following a long…

It doesn’t take an expert to identify this sound as a jazz rhythm: Musicians call it “spang-a-lang,” for obvious phonetic reasons, and it’s…

In the room he uses as a practice space and office in his apartment in Corona, Queens, Jimmy Heath recalls a hit record…

Few jazz musicians balanced intellect and instinct, head and heart, as effectively or seamlessly as Yusef Lateef, who died at 93 on Monday,…

Jazz at Lincoln Center announced an unprecedented gift of $20 million from Robert J. Appel, the organizations Chairman of the Board of Directors….

By David Brent Johnson The African-American religious folk songs known as spirituals grew out of the slavery experience and the introduction of Christianity…

By Kevin Whitehead Steve Lacy used to say that the right partner can help you make music you couldn’t get to by yourself….

By Banning Eyre Keith Jarrett is a jazz legend. His catalog of recordings includes solo piano improvisations, trio and quartet works, classical performances,…