Marcus Miller

Electric Miles. Few word pairings in the jazz lexicon are apt to inspire so much contention and challenge and ferment.What the phrase refers to, of…

The seventh annual TD James Moody Jazz Festival begins this weekend at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, and as usual it presents a broad view of the…

Lee Konitz & Dan Tepfer, “Through the Tunnel”The alto saxophonist Lee Konitz is 90 — an NEA Jazz Master, an alumnus of both the Tristano School and The…

The tune was familiar yet unfamiliar, an iconic object seen through a funhouse prism. It was “El Manisero,” the bedrock Cuban standard, refurbished with…