Jazz

He cherished the few joys in his life and celebrated them through his innovative approach to the piano

In any assessment of jazz’s founding fathers, he has to stand as the most influential figure

On the fiftieth anniversary of his death, it’s well worth revisiting his remarkable career

Remembering Rafael Schächter, a conductor imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp

He isn’t for the faint of heart, but it’s worth confronting his life’s work

First Flight to Tokyo by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers reviewed

Wynton Marsalis has not allowed tradition to become self-serving traditionalism

For anyone looking for a stocking stuffer for the aficionado — or merely the lover — of good music, here it is

Lee Morgan was searching for a new musical path forward, following but not retreading the bebop era

No matter his personal woes, Evans almost always vouchsafed his listeners something not merely to dig but to cherish

Poor Chet Baker. He really was born to be blue

Notes on a New Orleans professor

Meeting the inimitable Basie

Cécile McLorin Salvant’s shock of the new

Benny Golson, last legend of bebop