As I’ve said in a few recent editions of these best-of columns, it’s been a dreadful year for most things but a fine one for music, which, as the verse contends, “has charms to soothe a savage breast, ...

Musicians both established and up-and-coming stretched themselves in fresh ways over the last year, creating poignant moments of collaboration and challenge. By Hank Shteamer In 2024, jazz continued ...

Herbie Hancock, who at 85 years young is one of the elder statesmen and authorities of jazz, says jazz is a spirit. Though traditions of the genre remain consistent through the decades, jazz has also ...

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 ...

Wrapping up its 10th season with its annual Summer Concert, Lyrica Baroque will be venturing into new territory as it dips into jazz with a tribute to Duke Ellington plus a mix of original pieces May ...

A documentary telling Detroit’s jazz legacy premieres at the 2024 Freep Film Festival. A local documentary premiering at the 2024 Freep Film Festival, “The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit,” ...

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, ...