Discover four innovative records from artists including Thundercat and Adrian Younge that stretch the definition of jazz for ...

The Mark Masters Ensemble released Porgy and Bess Redefined! (Capri Records) in 2005. The music was taken from the George Gershwin/DuBose Heyward English-language opera, which was first performed in ...

Ray Charles Robinson, known the world over as multi-award-winning icon Ray Charles, may have departed this world, but his music endures thanks in part to the Ray Charles Foundation. Recently, the ...

Assessing the best jazz albums of any current year could be a tricky affair. The tricky part lies in the term current, as during any given year there is a slew of reissued jazz albums that can ...

The NEA Jazz Masters fellowship began in 1982, establishing a lifetime achievement honor for practitioners of a uniquely American art form. One of the first three inductees was Sun Ra — a composer, ...

Jason Moran opened the 2025 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert on Saturday night without pomp or preamble. Walking onstage before a nervously expectant audience at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.