The inaugural Larry J. Bell Jazz Artist and Young Jazz Artist awards were presented this past week at a ceremony in New York.

In a career that stretched across seven decades, Mike Wofford provided exactly the right touch on piano in any and every musical setting. His death Friday morning just after midnight, silences an ...

When we make music, we're never exactly sure how it's going to turn out... But we have developed such trust in each other, there's never any doubt that the end result is going to be good. In fact, it ...

This is FRESH AIR. Here on the show, we memorialize jazz composer Benny Golson and drummer Roy Haynes. Jazz historian Kevin Whitehead remembers a few more musicians who passed in 2024. For some of ...

*The fifth Leimert Park Jazz Festival in Los Angeles on Saturday, August 31 contributed a scintillating balance of veteran and fiery up-and-coming talent to a Clear, warm, and breezy afternoon. Hosted ...

One of the great joys of jazz is seeing how the music of many of its giants — Dizzy, Miles, Duke, Mingus — reflected their unabashed personalities. Their music was synonymous with who they were in ...

In a career that stretched across seven decades, Mike Wofford provided exactly the right touch on piano in any and every ...

From music producer Quincy Jones, to critic and archivist Dan Morgenstern, jazz historian Kevin Whitehead remembers just a few of the influential musicians and personalities we lost this year. This is ...