Imagine watching “Whiplash,” but instead of just hearing its pulse-pounding jazz score through the screen, the music roars to life right before you. The crack of a snare drum, the blare of a trumpet, ...

The NEA Jazz Masters fellowship began in 1982, establishing a lifetime achievement honor for practitioners of a uniquely American art form. One of the first three inductees was Sun Ra — a composer, ...

Ethiopian jazz musician Mulatu Astatke smiled as he held his arms aloft to acknowledge his audience for the last time. Last month in London, the 82-year-old pioneer, who has done much to bring his ...

"We were always looking for our own sound," alto saxophonist Gary Bartz recently affirmed. "We did not want to sound like anybody else." Speaking with The Late Set, a WRTI podcast, Bartz was referring ...