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Through Saint Heron, the musician brought Angélla Christie and the Clark Sisters for a night exploring Black religious music, and Linda Sharrock and Archie Shepp...

We asked a dozen musicians, scholars and critics to help take us on a tour of the music and mind of a pianist whose decades-long...

The saxophonist, who died on Thursday at 89, redefined jazz composition by embracing the unknown. Listen to nine of his recordings with Miles Davis, Joni...

We’ve done a lot of listening back. So where is jazz today? Writers and musicians including Sonny Rollins, Melanie Charles and Terri Lyne Carrington share...

Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong were A-list celebrities at the top of their art form. Today’s jazz singers are finding new paths....

In a year of growth and reflection, the music stretched and relocated in often unpredictable ways.

Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell: They altered the course of American music and raised the bar for improvisation. Listen to 10 experts’ favorites.

The pianist, 92, has been hesitant to glance back: “I’m still evolving, whenever I sit down at the piano.”

The institution will present 22 programs from late September through next June, and feature performers from five continents.

For a decade, Jackson was the revolutionary artist and activist’s musical director. After their split, and 35 years in a day job, he is finding...