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

What are the best jazz songs ever? That’s an almost impossible ... widely believed to be the second-most recorded pop song in history, after The Beatles’ “Yesterday.” ...

The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the advent of the 20th century. Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious ...

Jazz emerged as a new style of music in the early twentieth century in the African American communities of New Orleans. Jazz has its origins in blues and ragtime. Jazz features lots of ...

Listen to the best jazz Christmas songs on Spotify ... Now I’m living in paradise”), and one with a controversial history. The dispute over the origins of the song even prompted a Smithsonian ...

Bellisario initially expected a night of “smooth jazz” or the contemporary jazz he’d become used to seeing at live venues over the years— covers of songs ... this jazz history that is ...