For the past six or seven years, it has become divorced from its radical roots to become the new Putumayo Music — a hip, vaguely “exotic” sound for well-to-do middle-aged white people to dabble in its ...

NOTE: The first night of the Detroit Jazz Festival – Friday, Aug. 30 – is now virtual-only, due to threat of extreme weather. Friday's acts can be live-streamed at detroitjazzfest.org. One of ...

On October 22, Alice and Ravi Coltrane et al. roared into town, captivating a few thousand of their adoring subjects at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. As for jazz royalty, they don't come more ...

Critic Kevin Whitehead reviews biographies of two musicians who transcended jazz, and to whom recognition was slow in coming: James P. Johnson, born in 1894, and Alice Coltrane, born in 1937. This is ...