that this dreadful year’s list of favorite jazz albums leans toward the meditative, the balladic, the Romantic, sometimes the Zen, though I should add that none of the music here is mellow or ...

Marsalis leads a take on Keith Jarrett’s 1974 LP “Belonging,” and Lehman interprets “The Music of Anthony Braxton,” revealing ...

Who were the three women in the iconic 1958 photo known as "A Great Day in Harlem"? All three left their mark on the music in ...