For obvious reasons, writing about racism is a painful experience. Jazz is a complex art form and I have always felt that the primary responsibilities of a critic/writer are to educate the public by ...

Jazz is a form of entertainment, but surely it must be far more than that to evoke such a range of ideas and passions that are expressed herein and in all the jazz writing, commentaries, and ...

When I was about 15 and went to see the tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins — my main musical inspiration, my idol — for the first time, at Shelly’s Manne-Hole in Hollywood, I fell asleep, which upset me.

The Flynn Center revealed last spring that jazz composer Maria Schneider would be performing in Burlington this year, and that she and her orchestra would play a piece the Flynn asked her to write.

Literature has scarcely told the story of relations between African-Americans and Jews in America. Irving Howe thought he could tell Ralph Ellison how to be black, and Saul Bellow asked where he could ...

Is also one of the saddest. Here's the first paragraph: Jazz writers are a bunch of kids who don't know anything about the music; also, they are a bunch of old men who haven't liked anything new since ...

Pitchfork’s Allison Hussey speaks with three artists whose bold works are redefining jazz and expanding its appeal to younger and more diverse audiences. Samora Pinderhughes, Cécile Mclorin Salvant ...