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Brian Blade's band makes jazz-inflected, gospel-rooted music suffused with a glowing consonance.

The U.K. dub and reggae band perform live at The Jazz Cafe in London.

WBGO Salutes Herbie Hancock, celebrating his performance at NJPAC, Sunday, September 29

Brazilian musician João Gilberto has died. We have this appreciation.

Lyle Mays, a keyboardist, composer and orchestrator who helped carve a new channel for contemporary jazz with The Pat Metheny Group, died on Monday in Los…

Michael Cogswell, a jazz archivist and historian who took the lead in turning Louis Armstrong’s modest home into the Louis Armstrong House Museum, a…

“The best thing you can do,” Abbey Lincoln once said, “is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.”March is Women’s History Month,…

The superbly alert and flexible drummer formed a swirling current in modern jazz for more than 60 years. He was 82.

Esperanza Spalding, “12 Little Spells (Thoracic Spine)”The last time Esperanza Spalding made an album, she invited the world to watch. Her new one, 12…

Club music is often grounded in bass and rhythm, but electronic and dance songs that feature wind instruments explore innovation as well as connections with histories of jazz and indigenous music.