Born in Upstate New York in 1924, Blossom Dearie wasn't really American. The jazz singer, composer, arranger and pianist was more at home in Paris in the 1950s and London in the 1960s. Classically ...

Certainly no one at the time would have known that this recorded performance of the Maeght’s Festival in St. Paul de Vence was to be Albert Ayler’s last. But looking back on events that led up to his ...

The late '60s and early '70s witnessed the birth of some truly amazing talents in the music industry. These five bands fused jazz and rock with stunning results. Their powerful blends of horns and ...

Joni Mitchell‘s vault will get an even deeper dig this fall with the release of a 6-CD boxed set that will bring together about a hundred previously unreleased recordings from the fruitful late ’70s ...

Upon first listen, Laufey's smooth jazz music might sound nostalgic, but make no mistake: The Icelandic 24-year-old isn't some retro-revivalist who was born in the wrong era. She's a musician who ...

This past September, the Portland band Pleasure played together for the first time in almost 40 years. The long-awaited show at Portland’s Revolution Hall felt like a celebration with close friends.

"Music and sounds and flavors. The air is thick – not with just humidity." Sony Classics has revealed the first official trailer for Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story, a documentary about the iconic New ...

It’s been a long road for Cymande. Formed in London in the early 1970s, the group fused funk, soul, reggae, and jazz into a ...

Jazz musician Chuck Mangione, who had one of the biggest pop-jazz instrumental crossover hits of all time with “Feels So Good” in the 1970s, died Tuesday at age 84. The death was reported by multiple ...