TOKYO >> Jazz kissa, or cafes with extensive collections of jazz records and high-end audio equipment for playing them, originated in Japan. Now listening bars, influenced by the culture of jazz kissa ...

Kahlil Childs remembers the moment he fell in love with jazz. Although he was surrounded by the sounds of jazz, soul, blues, funk, reggae, Afro-Latin music, and old school hip-hop from the ’80s and ...

In the warm glow of the country’s jazz cafés, a subculture of vinyl aficionados is cultivating the kind of shared sensory experiences that our noisy world has forgotten. Legendary jazz club owners ...

A selection of the best recorded examples of the otherwise mostly undocumented music heard in jazz clubs like Slugs’. Some of the most fearless, interactive, and creative jazz of the 1960s and ’70s ...

Shortly after World War II ended, a young music lover named Bob Weinstock opened a record store in Times Square, New York City. The store specialized in jazz recordings, the music that Weinstock and ...

This holiday season, GBH Music has the perfect soundtrack while you bake, wrap, shovel, and unwind after your hosting duties are done. You can listen to our Holiday Jazz stream in the player below by ...

On Watching and Listening, longtime collaborators Daniel Levin (cello) and Rob Brown (saxophone) purposely chose to take new sonic paths. When recording the album, which is their third as a duo, they ...

Jazz was all over the place in 2022. I mean that as a compliment, and with an intended double meaning: We saw some great examples of improvisers flowing through the culture, and we also heard ...

A music educator, band leader, and jazz aficionado celebrates a milestone today. Ralph Rassmusson, better known as “Razz” ...

Inspired by extensive travels in Japan, Christopher Gleason has opened Hepcat, an intimate vinyl listening bar and café at 6A State Street in Montpelier. Gleason, 45, has worked in the Vermont ...

Listening bars, often referred to as jazz kissas — where people can relax and listen to vinyl records carefully selected by a bartender over a high fidelity sound system — have been popular in Japan ...

Many cities have rich jazz histories, but none goes back as far as New Orleans. We asked Wendell Pierce, Courtney Bryan and others what song they would play to get a friend to join the party. By ...