Master jazz improvisation, syncopation, and blue notes through the lens of New Orleans history. From Congo Square to Chicago, ...

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 ...

So You Don't Like Jazz normally focuses on ways to turn people on to jazz, but this column focuses on five jazz songs whose impact profoundly changed modern music. In the process they also ...

Laufey (pronounced lay-vay) grew up in Iceland as a multi-instrumentalist kid prodigy, schooled in classical as well as jazz. Now, living in L.A., she’s one of our unlikeliest as well as most talented ...

From Rebirth Brass Band to packed shows, the New Orleans native has crafted a career that highlights his city’s creativity.

60 Morningside; Crow or Dove; Wedding Song; Dreamscape; Torsion. Patrick Zimmerli's 14th leader album of his original music, Songs of Innocence, the debut recording on his new label EMP (Emergence ...

For more than a year, Edgar Alejandro left his song “A Tu Lado” in the drafts folder of his phone, unsure of what the public would make of the mariachi and jazz fusion. At the time, corridos tumbados ...

Brett Milano, John Wirt and Michael Allen Zell reviews from Jazz Fest Day 8, Sunday, May 3, 2026. For those of us who ...