2020 was a tough year for a lot of jazz artists. Jazz clubs shut their doors and live performance, the driving force of the genre, came to a grinding halt. Despite this, the music carried on through ...

Jazz may not have the mainstream cultural dominance that it once did, but it remains a thriving, multi-faceted form of music that continues to have so much more to say. Jazz informs so much of the rap ...

Quarantine is especially challenging when it comes to making jazz, which usually means getting together in a little room and cutting loose. But while few albums were recorded during the pandemic so ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The year 2020 was a fine one for listening to prerecorded music, at home. Live jazz got off to a promising start in mid-January, when the blazing electric ...

I thought of Cambridge this fall, when I was hospitalized for a month following emergency intestinal surgery the night of Labor Day. "GUT SURGERY, NOT COVID!" I wanted to headline every email I sent ...

This year's edition of A Jazz Piano Christmas almost didn't happen. But with the cooperation of the Washington, D.C. city government, the staffs of both NPR Music and the John F. Kennedy Center for ...

Wolfgang Dauner was a German jazz fusion pianist who worked in the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble and with Hans Koller, Albert Mangelsdorff, Volker Kriegel and Ack van Rooyen. He was the father of ...

The pandemic compressed live music onto screens, and Black Lives Matter protests brought it back to the streets. What will it all look like, and sound like, in 2021? By Giovanni Russonello When ...

The coronavirus has claimed its first major jazz club in New York City, and other venues are in danger of going under as well. By Ben Sisario The New York jazz scene was dealt a blow this week when ...

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