Branford Marsalis, Joshua White and Patricia Brennan are just some of the artists who released head-turning albums this year.

New Orleans’ streets echo with the sounds of brass bands, and iconic venues like Preservation Hall offer an intimate experience with traditional jazz. Also, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After much consternation, I’ve managed to pare down a long list of fine jazz-improv recordings from 2025 to a top 10. So, apologies to Marshall Allen, The ...

If you think about it a certain way, one of the defining qualities of jazz is earnestness. This is one of the reasons why jazz and metal have so much in common, and so often appeal to the same ...