In 2020, I published A Map of Jazz: Crossroads of Music and Human Rights (WS Publishing), a book that looks at the culture of jazz on a timeline with cultures of the world. At more than 500 pages, the ...

The recording opens metronomically, with eight repeated notes on a string bass, each pulling you in closer. The piano enters, then the drums. After playing the melody, a familiar and endearing Beatles ...

The world lost an icon when Latin jazz pioneer Eddie Palmieri died last month. His music lives on through recordings, but ...

Steve Alcala, a music teacher and trumpet player, fell in love with Latin Jazz, but very little sheet music was available to help his students learn. So he started a sheet music publishing company.

“Music is everything that makes the musician,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz composer, saxophonist and flautist Henry Threadgill notes in “Easily Slip Into Another World,” his fascinating memoir not ...

The Israeli Jazz project by French photographer Raphael Perez introduces the world to something it may not fully be aware of—Israeli jazz musicians who have made a name for themselves. And there are ...

A Scott and Zelda roman à clef; a photo collection of 1920s Paris. By Sadie Stein Dear readers, The Museum of the City of New York recently unveiled the refurbished Stettheimer Dollhouse, the ...

Photos by Christian Parroco I have a friend. I will not say his name. But he is to me what Charles Swann was to Marcel, the ...

For over 20 years, Montclair, N.J.'s Jazz House Kids has built a reputation for excellence in music education. Promising young musicians walk through its doors and receive the kind of training that ...