KNKX receives thousands of fresh songs per year for programming consideration. Here are the jazz releases from 2025 that rose ...

Big bands were built in the 1920s and ’30s to blast young dancers with layers of rhythm, but creative composers seeking a larger canvas have kept the form alive. Hear 12 big selections. By Giovanni ...

Christmas has come early for fans of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, as organizers released the lineup for the 2026 edition on Thursday (Dec. 11) — a month earlier than usual. Stevie Nicks ...

And it seems that in 2025 there was not only an abundance of new jazz releases, but the quality bar was raised again, with the bellow 11 albums, listed in artists’ alphabetical order, are among those ...

BYU jazz groups from the School of Music united to perform "All That Jazz!”, a jazz showcase in the Music Building on the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 8. From vocalists to big bands, the showcase featured ...

While music-loving tourists don't necessarily flock to Frenchmen Street to hear modern jazz, if they're lucky and curious ...

Nobody expects jazz musicians to play symphonies. But some high-brow concert audiences still think that symphonic musicians can play jazz. Symphonies are made to be played in concert halls for people ...

We're repeating an experiment we introduced last year. You'll again find a capsule review of each album in the Top 10, but instead of me doing all the heavy lifting, we've asked a critic who voted for ...

Pop has Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber. Country has Carrie Underwood and Luke Bryan. Hip-hop has Kanye West and Beyoncé. Contemporary music is a star-studded affair that employs sex and spectacle as ...

In the 2019 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll, five of the top 10 new releases were recordings led or co-led by women artists — a startling 50%. In fact, it is the largest number of projects led by women in ...

Why is it that "jazz music," and even the word "jazz" itself, is so offensive and polarizing to the average music listener today? The word "jazz" instantly turns many people off... immediately saying ...