All About Jazz features a free song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the songs featured in May, these ten represent our reader's favorites as indicated by total listens.

And it seems that in 2025 there was not only an abundance of new jazz releases, but the quality bar was raised again, with ...

It’s been a good year for jazz, diverse in every way—styles, influences, tastes, and demographics too. I didn’t aim the list to turn out this way, but four of the albums’ leaders are women, and five ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Ella Fitzgerald, often referred to as the “Queen of Jazz,” was a powerhouse vocalist whose influence on the jazz and popular music scene remains unparalleled. With a voice that could ...

In "The End of Jazz," his essay in the November Atlantic, Benjamin Schwarz looks at the Great American Songbook -- a collection that is not a physical book, but "a notional catalogue of classic ...

Fort Myers producer Julian Sundby was jamming in the studio one day when he came up with the bluesy jazz song "Time For Some Lightning." Soon, his friend Lindsay Jerger walked in the room and asked to ...

The packaging for the physical versions of the box set will include liner notes, previously unseen photos, and original artwork by Mitchell. [RELATED: Joni Mitchell to Release the Archives, Vol. 4 Box ...

LONDON — Cleo Laine, whose husky contralto was one of the most distinctive voices in jazz and who was regarded by many as Britain’s greatest contribution to the quintessentially American music, has ...