“For those of you who have seen us before,” film director, stand-up comedian and, on this evening, jazz clarinetist Woody Allen warned the crowd at the end of more than 90 minutes of New Orleans-flavored jazz, “you’ll notic

from the album Endless Planets released 2011.

Adam Shatz remembers Ornette Coleman.

Piano drum jazz fusion from Japan.

Sitting on a flight from Beijing to ShenZhen, listening to Bill Evans on my iPod, I'm inspired to write about a topic that has long haunted me...

Hear what Cameron Brown (bassist) , Rob Scheps (saxophonist) and Tore Myrholt (McKinsey consultant) have in common. Narrated by Carl Størmer for Jazzcode AS. Produced by Nordisk Film 2008

Coleman broke through style and structure to seek sound.

Ornette Coleman, known as one of the greatest innovators in free jazz, has died in New York at the age of 85, according to a published report.

Mr. Coleman was a leader in making jazz less beholden to rules of harmony and rhythm.

Jazz musicians and fans on both sides of the border are mourning the passing of a patriarch of the Detroit scene: Marcus Belgrave. The diminutive...

“The Complete Riverside Recordings,” a fifteen-disk set being rereleased this week, tells a musical story that is as much about Monk as it is about that era of jazz.

In an ill-lit New York basement crammed with people, Deborah Gordon is trying to explain why the subterranean club we are sitting in — the legendary Village Vanguard — has been the go-to place for jazz aficionados from all over the world for the

Live in Denmark,1964. Oscar Peterson on Piano Ray Brown on Bass Ed Thigpen on Drums

Charles Mingus: Original Faubus Fables from the album Mingus presents Mingus.

The 2nd track of Miles Davis's 1959 album "Kind of Blue"

Renowned jazz clarinettist Buddy DeFranco, known for working with Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday and other well-known musicians, has died aged 91. DeFranco's family said the musician died on Wednesday evening at a Florida hospital. His wife, Joyce, said his health had been poor in recent years. DeFranco, a member of the American Jazz Hall of Fame, performed at venues around the world for 75 years and also recorded many albums.

If streaming represents the future of music, then my own future is looking grim. In its first year of streaming on Spotify, my band Ceramic Dog earned 112.80 euros in Europe and $47.12 in the United States from our album "Your Turn." The album cost over $15,000 to make. By contrast, CD sales on earlier albums netted us between $4,000 and $9,000.

“That’s the sort of thing that’s always interested me: things where you can’t quite figure out what you are hearing.”

Album: Portrait In Jazz Year: 1959 Label: Riverside Bill Evans - piano Scott LaFaro - bass Paul Motian - drums

Music video by Miles Davis performing So What.