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Bley's pieces could be ethereally beautiful or subversively brash, but always found a grandeur without tilting into pretension.

The musical connection between Cuba and New Orleans, which runs deeper than many listeners realize, forms a strong subtext on the next Preservation Hall Jazz Band album, So It Is.

What’s behind The Red Door? For pianist Orrin Evans, that question has come to symbolize the daring path his life and music have taken over the course of his three- decade career for taking musical and personal chances.

Dedicated to Blake’s father and musical mentor, jazz violinist John Blake, Jr., Passage captures the arc of personal and collective evolution: the passing from one moment to the next, from one phase into another.

The electric guitarist never got to see his hero, John Coltrane, play the saxophone. But McLaughlin was so moved by Coltrane's 1965 masterpiece A Love Supreme that, nearly a half-century later, it's central to his own new album, To the One.

The album's not dead! Want proof? NPR Music's list of the best albums of 2023 features masterworks by veterans, newcomers, iconoclasts and at least one supergroup.

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Thousands of Jazz24 listeners voted for the songs they felt were the 100 best jazz songs of all time.

Most artists belong to their times. But Holiday, born 100 years ago Tuesday, fits in the present.

The jazz legend practiced his saxophone 10 to 15 hours a day before he got his big break, and while he wasn't the most reliable husband, when it came to music, he never wavered. Scholar Stanley Crouch's Kansas City Lightning is the first of a two-volume biography of Parker.