Branford Marsalis, Joshua White and Patricia Brennan are just some of the artists who released head-turning albums this year.

Jakob Bro’s Bill Frisell collaboration finally saw the light, Cécile McLorin Salvant drew on her teenage pop memories and Anthony Braxton looked back to 1985 ...

KNKX receives thousands of fresh songs per year for programming consideration. Here are the jazz releases from 2025 that rose ...

It’s been a good year for jazz, diverse in every way—styles, influences, tastes, and demographics too. I didn’t aim the list to turn out this way, but four of the albums’ leaders are women, and five ...

The Second Annual New York Jazz Piano Festival is a dream come true for all of us who have a deep love for jazz and piano music. We’re thrilled to create a platform that brings together the world’s ...

Les McCann, a prolific and influential musician and recording artist who helped found the soul-jazz genre and became a favorite source for sampling by Dr. Dre, A Tribe Called Quest and hundreds of ...

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ArcoIris Sandoval was born to play jazz piano. "My dad started me when I was 6 weeks old," Sandoval said during a coffee break near East Grant Road and North Campbell Avenue. Her father would sit at ...

From modern jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette to masterful scatter and vocalist Nancy King, KNKX remembers the lives of notable jazz musicians who passed away this year.

Pianist Cyrus Chestnut is a technical wizard on the keyboard with a deep understanding of music and a passion for performing. His charm onstage just adds to the fun. Chestnut, who started piano at age ...

Austrian-born Friedrich Gulda, 37, enjoys a dual distinction. He is the best classical pianist now playing jazz, and the best jazz pianist now playing classical music. Last week, at the Village ...

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, ...