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

“I keep moving all the time,” jazz singer and lyricist Kurt Elling said last week. Elling, the winner of two Grammy Awards and dozens more honors, was in Alexandria, Virginia, filming performances ...

NBC’s ‘The Voice’ carries a long-standing reputation as one of the most influential music competition platforms, and earning a spot on the show is an achievement in itself. In season 28, Jazz McKenzie ...

This Jazz Appreciation Month, a Philadelphia jazz artist is putting a fresh spin on an old genre — using her lyrics to speak directly to today's women. Singer, composer and arranger Lora Sherrodd is ...

Sheila Jordan, a prolific jazz singer who helped pioneer a bebop and scat singing style, has died. She was 96. Jordan’s death was announced by her daughter, Tracey, in an Instagram post on Monday, Aug ...

Jordan, who died Aug. 11, was a teen when she first heard a Charlie Parker recording. Later she became part of the jazz scene in Detroit and New York City. Originally broadcast in 1981 and 1988. This ...

When she was 11, Paige Anne’s performance at a Utah Jazz game went viral. Now, eight years later, she has again gone viral at ...

In recent years, 20-something jazz singers Cécile McLorin Salvant and Samara Joy have found success with audiences their parents’ age and older. Then along comes jazzy 26-year-old Icelandic singer ...

The death of Cleo Laine Thursday at the age of 97 has inspired a slew of admiring headlines for the acclaimed English vocal and theater star, nearly all of them hailing her as a great jazz singer.

"The Jazz Singer" premiered Oct. 6, 1927. — -- It was an era that few of us would recognize today. It was the time of the “flapper girl.” Construction had just begun on Mount Rushmore and Calvin ...

This is FRESH AIR. We're going to remember jazz singer Sheila Jordan, who had a devoted following among jazz fans, though she was less well-known to wider audiences. She died Monday at the age of 96 ...