Jazz is smooth and sweet and Chicago made it famous, taking the music that originated in New Orleans, and putting a new spin ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...

The legendary singer-songwriter also shared the previously unreleased 1980 demo "Be Cool" Marina Watts is a Digital Writer, Music at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has ...

As we roll into another month of self-isolation and social distancing, many of us are feeling stagnant, uninspired, or just plain worried about the future. And while it might even feel hot enough to ...

Something about the joy of irritating my father, going back and forth about how I keep hijacking his jazz CD collection, is ...

Dee Dee Bridgewater turns 76 as the Grammy-winning jazz and funk icon continues touring, mentoring artists and releasing acclaimed music.

So You Don't Like Jazz normally focuses on ways to turn people on to jazz, but this column focuses on five jazz songs whose impact profoundly changed modern music. In the process they also ...

Legendary jazz musician Sonny Rollins died Monday in his Woodstock, New York, residence at the age of 95. Rollins’ publicist, ...

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Jazz musicians have always spoken their mind in the face of injustice: think of Louis Armstrong and Charles Mingus voicing two different, equally courageous responses to the fight over Little Rock ...