David Virelles is a relatively young pianist, born and raised in Cuba, with a second recording that extremely interesting and ambitious bu...

Last month I got the chance to interview the brilliant John Pizzarelli, singer and seven-string jazz guitarist. He just wrote a memoir that ...

Jazz today remains the music that stays alive through a remarkable alchemy. The best work in the genre is a shape-shifting wonder. On this ...

In sheer talent and bravado, there’s not a more remarkable jazz singer out there than Kurt Elling. His instrument, a baritone to tenor bea...

When pianist Dave Brubeck died last week, many jazz fans lost the man who first taught them how to love the music—and to learn to love t...

In past outings, jazz guitarist Rez Abbasi has created challenging bands that mixed and matched voices in ways that fostered cultural cros...

The most moving music of 2012 for me has surely been the collection Be Still , by trumpeter Dave Douglas. A serene and shimmering marriage b...