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A Salon Experience with Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Marshall Allen, Salvador Jiménez-Flores and Ensemble

T here’s nothing new, really, about the merging of the fine arts with live music. Gertrude Stein’s Parisian salons were frequented by George Antheil and Virgil Thomson in the 1930s, with Picasso showing off his wares while Hemingway drank. Andy Warhol’s Plastic Exploding Inevitable with…

Jul 21, 2026
Profiles

Pianist Joey Alexander Savors Contemplation, Expands His Art on the New Celestial Keeper

Jul 19, 2026
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Albums

Ma Rainey, Fats Waller and the Jazzy, Bluesy, Showy Roar of the Roaring ’20s

Jul 18, 2026
Live

Miles Okazaki’s Boomtown Ensemble In Effect at The Jazz Gallery

Jul 17, 2026
Profiles

Drummer-Composer Lesley Mok’s Music of Becoming

Jul 16, 2026
Blog

Jazz Generations Initiative Makes a Scene with New Inclusive Web Portals

Jul 15, 2026

Latest Stories

Seven Steps to Heaven: Amorosi on Miles Davis at 100

May 26, 2026

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May 24, 2026

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May 23, 2026

The Next Chapter of JazzTimes — and How You Can Be Part of It

May 14, 2026

Complimentary Livestream: ARTEMIS at The Gilmore

May 8, 2026

Complimentary Livestream: Steve Wilson Quintet at SMOKE Jazz Club, New York

May 1, 2026

Newport Jazz Festival 2026 Lineup Announced: The First Under New Artistic Director Nate Smith

Apr 21, 2026

The New Old Jazz, and Everything Jazz, for Record Store Day 2026

Apr 17, 2026

Features

Interviews

Pianist and Curator Aaron Diehl Does Miles Davis Centennial Right with Jazz in July, at 92NY

Aaron Diehl may speak softly but carry a big stick when it comes to elegantly merging classical sounds and minimalist…

Jul 13, 2026
Interviews

One Man’s “Jolene” is Another Man’s Jazz

Near the close of a recent interview with composer-bassist Melvin Gibbs, he and I talked about a concert intended to…

Jul 12, 2026
Profiles

Javier Limón and Frank Maza Travel “Back Then” for Vintage Latin Jazz with a 21st-Century Twist

Within the last eight years, vocalist Frank Maza has composed, sung and/or produced a handful of recordings that personify the…

Jul 10, 2026
Profiles

Joe Morris: Always Moving Toward Improvised Music’s “Perpetual Frontier”

Joe Morris was pondering his place in the jazz continuum in May 2026. It was six weeks before the 30th…

Jul 9, 2026
Interviews

Feathered Creatures of Fusion Guitar and Sitar Flock Together

Across the 40 minutes and nine long yet whimsically contagious songs of their debut collaborative work, Feathered Creatures (GroundUP Music),…

Jul 8, 2026
Profiles

The Jazz Roots of King Britt’s Blacktronika are Showing

N ot long after becoming a Professor of Computer Music at UC San Diego, Philadelphia-born producer, recording artist and DJ…

Jun 28, 2026
Profiles

Steven Bernstein Shifts Gears, and Valves, with ResoNation Trio

T he only thing that fast-talking slide (and valve) trumpeter and alto hornist Steven Bernstein does better than play and…

Jun 26, 2026
Profiles

In and Around New York, Jazz Clubs Come Out of the Sky

T he Knicks’ championship run gave New York a rare civic lift. For Spike Wilner, it also helped sink a…

Jun 29, 2026
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O Canada: Montreal Jazz Festival 2026 Brings Out the Fans

Certified in 2004 by Guinness as the world’s largest jazz fest, the Montreal International Jazz Festival more than upheld that…

Jul 12, 2026
Books

This Just In: First English Translation of Modern Lusts, a Biography of the Late Ernest Borneman

I f you could switch out the meth, cocaine and sweat from Lester Bangs’s primal Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung:…

Jul 7, 2026
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At the Kongsberg Jazz Festival, the Jazz Trio Keeps Reinventing Itself

O ren Ambarchi sits in a hotel lounge, wearing a Triptykon t-shirt as clouds hang over the hills outside of…

Jul 6, 2026
Live

Blue Note Jazz Festival 2026 at the Hollywood Bowl: Two Nights of Jazz Without Boundaries

T he Blue Note Jazz Festival returned to the Hollywood Bowl on June 13-14 for its second year under the…

Jul 5, 2026
Albums

Sweeps Week: June Historical Releases & Reissues

S weeps Week concludes on the last Thursday of the month, with historical/reissue picks from A.D. Amorosi. Hadley Caliman, Iapetus…

Jul 2, 2026
Albums

Sweeps Week: Top June Jazz Releases, Henkin Edition

H ere are Andrey Henkin’s monthly picks, coming to you the last Wednesday of the month. Barcelona Art Orchestra &…

Jul 1, 2026
Albums

Sweeps Week: Top June Jazz Releases, Amorosi Edition

H ere are A.D. Amorosi’s monthly picks, coming to you the last Tuesday of the month. Ambrose Akinmusire & Mary…

Jun 30, 2026
Albums

Sweeps Week: Top June Jazz Releases, Monday Mix Edition

W e wrap June with another Sweeps Week, featuring top editorial picks of the month. Ron Carter & Yotam Silberstein,…

Jun 29, 2026
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Blog

Harry Styles Curating London’s Meltdown Festival 2026: Music All the Time. Jazz, A Bit More Than Occasionally.

When it was announced that Harry Styles was curating the 31st iteration of London’s Meltdown Festival (June 11-26), we observed…

Apr 15, 2026
Blog

Flea and the Arbiters: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Alternative Jazz Album

Even in the year 2026 I have seen writers among us still holding to some version of the following: “Music…

Apr 7, 2026
Blog

It Continues: The Kennedy Center Clown Show

For those keeping score at home: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which is the correct and…

Mar 26, 2026
Blog

Next Jazz Legacy: Key Music Mentorship Program Announces 2026 Cohort

The seven artists chosen for the 2026 Next Jazz Legacy program were announced on March 12. Now in its fifth…

Mar 19, 2026
Blog

Book Worms: Jazz Journalists Association Announces Jazz Awards Book Nominations for 2026

If jazz were solely about records and live gigs, writers and broadcasters like myself — to say nothing of the…

Mar 13, 2026
Blog

In Memoriam: Don Schlitten (1932-2026)

Editor’s Note: The following obituary was completed and sent to JazzTimes by Don Schlitten’s attorney Adam Nussenbaum and Schlitten’s daughter,…

Mar 9, 2026
Blog

Going Mono, Getting Analog: The New Sound of Vintage Jazz

While the Stones and the Beatles have revitalized the literal tone of their repeatedly sold classic album catalogs with all-analog…

Mar 3, 2026
Blog

Willie Colón, Salsa and Latin Music Giant, Dies at 75

Willie Colón, the South Bronx–born guiding light of the Nuyorican music movement and an activist for all things Puerto Rico…

Feb 23, 2026
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