Cécile McLorin Salvant never intended to release the songs on her new album, "Oh Snap." Her work has explored Haitian folk ...

Oh took the fast track to jazz prominence, emerging on the scene in the 2000s and becoming the bass player in bands led by Pat Metheny and Vijay Iyer. Her new album is a look back at her early work.

Veteran jazz guitarist Rich Goldstein digs into soul jazz roots on his new album, “Into the Blue,” set for release Sept. 27 via Truth Revolution Records. In this new work, Goldstein, a longtime ...

It’s been announced that a true jazz great – drummer Jack DeJohnette – has passed away at the age of 83. DeJohnette played ...

Alumnus Matt Smiley (DMA ’22), a jazz studies lecturer at the CU Boulder College of Music, has been awarded a MacDowell Fellowship—one of the most prestigious, cross-disciplinary artist residency ...

Jack DeJohnette, a celebrated jazz drummer who worked with Miles Davis on his landmark 1970 fusion album and collaborated with Keith Jarrett and many other greats of the genre, has died at 83.

Unless you’re a longtime jazz aficionado, you might only know the names and music of a handful of stars and legends. But what about all those who’ve built a life working in this art form? A new ...

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 ...