The vocal artistry of Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald continues to shape modern jazz singing. Armstrong’s expressive ...

TRANSCRIPT: I’m Mark Rapp, and this is Rapp on Jazz. After his formative work with Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane embarked on ...

This episode highlights music almost exclusively from the 21st century, including Kassa Overall, Detroit’s Geri Allen and more.

A Detroit jazz radio institution has returned after more than 25 years of silence in a new form. WJZZ, known during its original tenure as the world’s oldest jazz station, has been revived online as a ...

The window of opportunity to hear jazz on terrestrial radio just got a little smaller in DFW. KNTU 88.1 FM, a student-run station owned by the University of North Texas in Denton, announced on Friday ...

Ever since Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim fused American jazz with Brazilian samba in the 1950s to form the new style known as Bossa Nova, countless musicians have been inspired to create ...

Roy Haynes. American jazz drummer and bandleader has died. Born in 1925 in Roxbury, Mass., he influenced generations of jazz drummers and helped change the direction of rhythmic improvisation. Roy ...

Rediscover the quadraphonic magic of Beaver & Krause and The Modern Jazz Quartet with Rhino’s Quadio Blu-ray reissues—immersive 4-channel mixes from the 1970s, now playable on modern 5.1 systems.

Wayne Shorter, the saxophonist and composer who was a major figure in the development of modern jazz, died Thursday at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 89. His death was confirmed to The New York Times ...

Mort Fega, radio broadcaster, jazz record producer, journalist and teacher, died Friday, January 21 at Hospice of Palm Beach in Bethesda Memorial Hospital, Boyton Beach, Florida. According to the ...