Bebop

Things to Come: 21st Century Dizzy

Roy Hargrove Quintet

Point of Departure: The biggest envelope

Was Charlie Parker even really improvising?

Blue Note Records 70th Anniversary

Was Charlie Parker even really improvising?

Ariel Pink, Brian Jonestown Massacre, and more

Was Charlie Parker even really improvising?

James Moody

Was Charlie Parker even really improvising?

Yusef Lateef: The Gentle Giant

Octogenarian world-music legend is preparing for a night of improvisational music at the Walker—just don't call it jazz

Paul Renz

Octogenarian world-music legend is preparing for a night of improvisational music at the Walker—just don't call it jazz

Ravi Coltrane Quartet/ Roy Haynes Quartet

Octogenarian world-music legend is preparing for a night of improvisational music at the Walker—just don't call it jazz

Roy Hargrove

Octogenarian world-music legend is preparing for a night of improvisational music at the Walker—just don't call it jazz

Bop Lives!

A recently discovered concert recording finds Bird and Diz at their peaks

Bop Lives!

A recently discovered concert recording finds Bird and Diz at their peaks

Michel Petrucciani: So What: Best of Michel Petrucciani

A recently discovered concert recording finds Bird and Diz at their peaks

Eight Ball, Side Pocket

The winning sound of Roy Haynes, father of modern jazz drumming

Boys on Film

The Cinematic Orchestra bring their blue note funk to the silver screen

Bad Luck!

How three Midwestern boys reached jazz nirvana

Hill Peaks

After a few low-profile decades, pianist Andrew Hill is resurgent--and restless

Herbie's Love Bug

Herbie Hancock embraces bebop, hip hop, drum 'n' bass, jazz--and all humanity

Old School

Pausing a beat for bassist Ray Brown

Is All That Jazz?

Savoring the variably spicy JVC jazz festival

Venues and Value

Getting More Bop for Your Buck with Parliament-Funkadelic and Charles McPherson Quartet at the JVC Jazz Fest

'Trane Travel

Jazz Tributes to Coltrane, Parker, and Hendrix

Ode to Joy

Blissing Out on Cuban-Born Jazz Pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba

All the Things You Are

A new book and five-disc reissue offer incomplete portraits of sax great Sonny Rollins

Mood Indigo

Troubled jazz trumpeter Tom Harrell finds calm between the chords

Give Until It Hurts

Troubled jazz trumpeter Tom Harrell finds calm between the chords

Baby Steps

Twice the ambition, half the vision

1948

Twice the ambition, half the vision

Holiday Box-Set Roundup

Twice the ambition, half the vision

Dexter Gordon

Twice the ambition, half the vision