For decades, the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla has assembled a fusion of styles and sounds for jazz programming at locations such as the library’s Joan & Irwin Jacobs Music Room and the ...

Even if you aren’t actively seeking out jazz, it’s inescapable. It directly informs so much hip hop and electronic music, and we frequently hear it popping up in punk, metal, and indie rock too. It ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s been a good year for jazz, diverse in every way—styles, influences, tastes, and demographics too. I didn’t aim the list to ...

The most compelling releases of the year reimagined hip-hop tracks, deep-rooted collaborations and longstanding inspirations. By Hank Shteamer In a year that saw the deaths of two leading drummers, ...

Back in the late sixties, when rock musicians started to explore more complex things, the music became at the same time more interesting and, well, complicated at the same time. It was the advent of ...

The albums deftly showcase the icon's virtuosity as a musician.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It may be coincidence, or just a reflection of my own state of mind, that this dreadful year’s list of favorite jazz albums leans ...

Musicians both established and up-and-coming stretched themselves in fresh ways over the last year, creating poignant moments of collaboration and challenge. By Hank Shteamer In 2024, jazz continued ...

It may be coincidence, or just a reflection of my own state of mind, that this dreadful year’s list of favorite jazz albums leans toward the meditative, the balladic, the Romantic, sometimes the Zen, ...