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Hear the pianist in the Quincy Jones Orchestra join host Marian McPartland for some swinging music and a discussion about the role of women in jazz.

The 14th annual Hub City Jazz Festival comes back to New Brunswick this week. The multi-day Hub City Jazz Fest is a celebration of the music’s…

Alto saxophonist Jackie McLean, who mastered Charlie Parker's style of bebop and went on to become an early advocate of the free jazz movement of the 1960s, has died. McLean's career spanned more than five decades.

WBGO contributing photographer Steven Sussman shares photos from BRIC JazzFest 2024

Miguel Zenón, the ever-insightful Puerto Rican alto saxophonist and composer, has garnered enviable credentials over the last 15 years, since first…

It's hard to decide what to make of The Bad Plus, whose sound has no pretense of operating at either extreme of jazz and rock, but instead plays with the colors in between.

A singer of ironclad capability, creative drive and irrepressible panache, she has emerged as the breakout new talent in a formidable jazz-vocal tradition.

New arrangements, old Yuletide classics. Watch the annual Jazz at Lincoln Center Big Band Holidays concert live on Wed., December 19th at 7:30 p.m. ET.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead gives the lowdown on new jazz releases that are perfect for the music lover on your last-minute shopping list. He says that this year, there is something for every budget, from affordable classics to handsome box sets.

"An excursion into Renaissance Italy." That is how jazz critic Murray Horwitz describes The Comedy, which tells the story of several fictional denizens of the 1500s. The album also has a surprise appearance by Diahann Carroll, of Dynasty fame.