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 ...

Sparrow Dusting Picidae Nocturnal and Binaural Mourning Dove Distant Recognition Mocking Jack On Watching and Listening, longtime collaborators Daniel Levin (cello) and Rob Brown (saxophone) purposely ...

Something extraordinary has occurred in Barcelona, Spain, that is proving that the old adage “don’t fix it if it ain’t broke” is applicable when applied to teaching jazz. Over the past 12 years the ...

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 ...

"We don't determine music, the music determines us; we only follow it to the end of our life: then it goes on without us." —Steve Lacy Israeli free jazz saxophonist Albert Beger, 45, has dedicated his ...

Music Monday means it’s time for GBH’s All Things Considered Turntable, where we turn to our favorite in-house music connoisseurs to hear what they’ve been listening to lately. This week, GBH Jazz’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

When we think of jazz, we think of instruments — saxophones, pianos, trumpets, trombones, clarinets, bass, drums, and guitars — blending in unpredictable ways to craft listening journeys fit for late ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Givonna Joseph of Loyola University New Orleans and Gwen Thompkins of WWNO radio about the influence of opera on jazz music. And that is Jelly Roll Morton, the jazz ...

We asked jazz musicians, writers and others to tell us what moves them. Listen to their choices. By Giovanni Russonello and Marcus J. Moore A few years ago, Zachary Woolfe, a New York Times critic and ...