Caroling and choirs abound during the holiday season in New Orleans, but so do less traditional performances — including a night of holiday music dedicated to free-jazz icon Albert Ayler and a ...

Charlie "Bird" Parker (1920-1955) may have left this earth at the young age of 34, but his contribution to music history was much more than a grace note. Every time a horn player attempts to play it ...

Misc have been playing together for decades, pushing the boundaries of what a free jazz ensemble can propose while still ...

NJPAC's 2026 Season of Jazz events. Thu 1.22 @ 7:30 p.m. Jazz Jams at Clement’s Place. Co-presented by NJPAC’s Jazz Advisory ...

"For the avant-garde, it was liberating. It just changed everything." Submarine Ent. has debuted the doc trailer for Fire Music: The Story of Free Jazz, about the exciting free jazz movement of the ...

The Fort Worth-born saxophonist’s stint at the venue was in support of his revolutionary “The Shape of Jazz to Come” LP.

One of the more adventurous and transformative eras in jazz happened amid the societal turbulence of the mid- to late-1960s, and Miles Davis and John Coltrane were leading the way. In his new book ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...