More than most, 2021 was a year of mixed results — an endless scroll of gains and losses, halting progress and hard retrenchment. For jazz musicians and the community of listeners around them, it ...

The most notable classical-music story here in 2021 merited national attention, thanks to the debut of the San Diego Symphony’s new $85 million year-round outdoor concert venue, The Rady Shell at ...

Saxophonist Sam Gendel, pictured above, had a busy 2021 working on his own projects and contributing to albums such as Mach-Hommy’s “Balens Cho.” (Austen Hooks) Perspective by Andy Beta In 2018, Los ...

Despite what we’re sometimes led to believe, jazz hasn’t been relegated to the halls of academia, it isn’t background music, and it certainly isn’t dead. It’s constantly in the DNA of the music that ...

Throughout the pandemic, the music’s flexibility has become an asset. Where will artists take it next? Hosted by Jon Caramanica. Produced by Pedro Rosado. Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, jazz’s ...

The Best Albums of 2021? My picks from the world of jazz including some Blue Note Tone Poet Series albums you need to own. It’s that time of year again as we approach mid-December to take a hard look ...

Artists will make art—and have. The outcome of this year's anxious output has been something special, and this much we can revel in. And should. This year in which we celebrated the return of live ...

Since your scribe last visited the Jazz Juniors competition in 2018, this steadily evolving festival has undergone further changes, not least the appointment of saxophonist Adam Pierończyk as artistic ...

The global COVID-19 pandemic continues to devastate every aspect of social and cultural life. Artists and technical workers in the music industry face conditions unlike anything seen in generations, ...

So, 2021 wasn’t quite the “post-pandemic” return to normal we’d all hoped for. But once again, music carried us through, and not even ever-mutating variants could stop incredible artists from ...