When Denver trumpet legend Ron Miles died in 2022 at age 58, there was no doubt that he still had decades of great music left in him – and that it would tragically never be heard. But one posthumous ...

It didn’t take long after its release on August 17, 1959, for Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue to ascend to a throne it has yet to vacate in all of the decades that have followed. With its scepter, came a ...

It may be coincidence, or just a reflection of my own state of mind, that this dreadful year’s list of favorite jazz albums leans toward the meditative, the balladic, the Romantic, sometimes the Zen, ...

No, those aren’t the cadenced numbers an NFL quarterback calls out just before the ball is hiked in a game. Rather, they are the ages of three storied jazz saxophonists — Charles Lloyd, Charles ...

Vocalist Brenna Whitaker will return to her hometown for “Glamour of Old Hollywood Jazz Gala.” Courtesy of Kansas City Jazz Orchestra The artist and songwriter Romare Bearden once wrote, “The rhythms, ...