Caroling and choirs abound during the holiday season in New Orleans, but so do less traditional performances — including a night of holiday music dedicated to free-jazz icon Albert Ayler and a ...
Charlie "Bird" Parker (1920-1955) may have left this earth at the young age of 34, but his contribution to music history was much more than a grace note. Every time a horn player attempts to play it ...
Refused named their classic 1998 album The Shape of Punk to Come after Ornette Coleman’s 1959 free jazz classic The Shape of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s something about Thelonious Monk that grabs you—not with force, but with curiosity. You lean in when he plays, like someone telling a ...
NJPAC's 2026 Season of Jazz events. Thu 1.22 @ 7:30 p.m. Jazz Jams at Clement’s Place. Co-presented by NJPAC’s Jazz Advisory ...
Three members of Refused have announced a new album from their “free form death-jazz” group Backengrillen alongside prolific ...
One of the more adventurous and transformative eras in jazz happened amid the societal turbulence of the mid- to late-1960s, and Miles Davis and John Coltrane were leading the way. In his new book ...