The University of Minnesota’s Jazz Ensemble 1 recorded eight beginner-level songs on Thursday for its first recording back since taking a break in 2023. Typically, the band only performs live, but ...

One hundred years ago this week, five New Orleans musicians made the first recording of a new genre of music unknown to most of the nation. “Livery Stable Blues,” the first studio number scratched ...

Record Store Day, which started in 2007, is a biannual event designed to promote independent record stores. Every Record Store Day drop features limited-edition vinyl releases in practically every ...

As jazz nightclubs dwindle in number and big bands continue to be scarce, more young jazzmen are acquiring experience in the rapidly multiplying units in colleges and universities. This trio, for ...

From modern jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette to masterful scatter and vocalist Nancy King, KNKX remembers the lives of notable jazz musicians who passed away this year.

The recording industry’s Music Performance Trust Fund (MPTF), a leading non-profit organization enriching lives and uniting communities through the power of music, is on track to distribute over ...

It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing — all you’ve got to do is stagger your timing. For decades, fans of jazz music have debated why some songs have swing — the characteristic swaying ...

Despite a resurgence of interest in vinyl, those scratchy old record albums moldering in the basement or garage probably aren’t worth much. Most are common, mass produced with hundreds of thousands of ...

Zev Feldman, co-president of Resonance Records, is the guy who single-handedly made Record Store Day a red-letter date for fans of classic jazz. Charles Mingus has some new music out this weekend. He ...

Art Farmer, fluegelhorn; Jim Hall, guitar; Steve Swallow, bass; Walter Perkins, drums; Atlantic SD-1412 (stereo) and 1412 Formed in the summer of 1962, the Art Farmer quartet has become the most ...