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Patrice Rushen: 2026 NEA Jazz Master

E ditor’s Note: The NEA Jazz Masters 2026 Tribute Concert will be held on Tuesday, September 15, 2026, at 8:00 p.m. PT at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California. Admission is free to attend in person (with reservations) and available via livestream here…

Sep 12, 2026
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Something Beautiful: 31st Annual Charlie Parker Jazz Festival with Ravi Coltrane, Joshua Redman, Billy Hart, Catherine Russell and More

Sep 10, 2026
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Airto Moreira: 2026 NEA Jazz Master

Sep 10, 2026
Profiles

Turn It Around: Henry Threadgill Wants to Interview You

Sep 9, 2026
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Carmen Lundy: 2026 NEA Jazz Master

Sep 8, 2026
Profiles

Good Trouble, Great Belief: Drummer Matt Wilson on Banding Together, in Music and Life

Sep 7, 2026

Latest Stories

Citizen Arts International Festival Brings Free Interdisciplinary Performance and Jazz to New York

Sep 5, 2026

Cassandra Wilson, Boundary-Breaking Jazz Singer, Songwriter and Producer, Dies at Age 70

Sep 3, 2026

Editorial: MAGA Regime Wreaks Havoc on Arts & Culture, Jails Respected Musician

Aug 15, 2026

Cancel Culture: As Falls Inaugural LA Jazz Festival, So Falls Inaugural BKLYN Jazz Festival

Aug 9, 2026

Jazz Generations Initiative Makes a Scene with New Inclusive Web Portals

Jul 15, 2026

Seven Steps to Heaven: Amorosi on Miles Davis at 100

May 26, 2026

The Rarest Miles Davis: “Circle,” Played Once, and Never Again

May 24, 2026

How Black Music Took Over the World: A Response from Melvin Gibbs

May 23, 2026

Features

Interviews

Saxophonist-Composer Andy Sheppard Talks New ECM Release, Long History with Carla Bley and Steve Swallow 

D espite having played in the big bands of Gil Evans, George Russell and most famously Carla Bley, soprano and…

Sep 5, 2026
Interviews

Saul Williams Connects with LA’s Unbound Jazz Community and Moor Mother on Leap Life

S aul Williams was always something of an anomaly. The writer-rapper and singing spoken-word artist may have gained notoriety as…

Aug 29, 2026
Profiles

Saxophonist-Composer David Murray’s Back Pages, Upcoming Verses

C alling David Murray prolific is like saying soup is wet. Beyond the numbers, then, what it is about the…

Aug 28, 2026
Interviews

The Good Life: Tony Bennett at 100 — A Rare Interview from 2018

O f all the jazz centenary centurions we’ve celebrated in 2026 — Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, John Coltrane — only…

Aug 26, 2026
Special Feature

Book Excerpt – Cool Heat: Anita O’Day and Her Dangerous Jazz Life, By James Gavin

E ditor’s Note: The following is the Prologue of James Gavin’s newly published book Cool Heat: Anita O’Day and Her…

Aug 24, 2026
Profiles

Overdue Ovation: PRISM Saxophone Quartet

J ust as a prism refracts and disperses beams of light into separate bands of color, PRISM Saxophone Quartet seeks…

Aug 22, 2026
Interviews

Larry Goldings, Peter Bernstein & Bill Stewart: Ringing in Rhombus with Complimentary Livestream from SMOKE Jazz Club

O rganist/pianist Larry Goldings, guitarist Peter Bernstein and drummer Bill Stewart each have impressive and prolific resumes. As a trio,…

Aug 21, 2026
Interviews

A Heady Brew: Miles Davis–Themed THC Cocktail Dedicated to Classic 1970 Electric Jazz Experiment

I n this Miles Davis centennial year, we have witnessed all manner of tributes to the titanic trumpeter: cover-replicating reissues,…

Aug 20, 2026
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Reviews

Live

Concert Review: John Zorn’s Flatlands at Solar Myth, Philadelphia

I f you had to credit/blame any one person for twisting the jazz idiom into something unclassifiable and beyond genre,…

Sep 6, 2026
Books

Impressions. Meditations. Expression. Thoughts on Coltrane: The Definitive Visual Celebration of the Legend

W hen writing about this year’s centenary celebrations of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, it’s been fascinating to see how…

Sep 1, 2026
Books

Book Review: Me, My Guitar & Nina Simone, By Al Schackman

E arly on in this memoir-of-sorts from Al Schackman (via A.G. Dunewood Publishing Co.), the venerable guitarist (93 this October)…

Aug 27, 2026
Albums

Sweeps Week: August Historical Releases & Reissues

S weeps Week concludes on the last Thursday of the month, with historical/reissue picks from A.D. Amorosi. Miles Davis and…

Aug 27, 2026
Albums

Sweeps Week: Top August Jazz Releases, Henkin Edition

H ere are Andrey Henkin’s monthly picks, coming to you the last Wednesday of the month. Enneads, Enneads (Birdwatcher Records)…

Aug 26, 2026
Albums

Sweeps Week: Top August Jazz Releases, Amorosi Edition

H ere are A.D. Amorosi’s monthly picks, coming to you the last Tuesday of the month. Kelly Green, Eat Your…

Aug 25, 2026
Albums

Sweeps Week: Top August Jazz Releases, Monday Mix Edition

W e wrap August with another Sweeps Week, featuring top editorial picks of the month. Sullivan Fortner, Leave That in…

Aug 24, 2026
Live

Nate Smith’s First Newport on the Books: Jazz Festival Joy in a Rainy Northeast

The Newport Jazz Festival, with its storied legacy and iconic location, attracts those with a tradition of attending for years…

Aug 9, 2026
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The Next Chapter of JazzTimes — and How You Can Be Part of It

For more than 50 years, JazzTimes has covered this music, its artists, its arguments, its quiet and unquiet revolutions. We’ve…

May 14, 2026
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Complimentary Livestream: ARTEMIS at The Gilmore

ARTEMIS live from The Gilmore Piano Festival venue in Kalamazoo, Michigan — Friday, May 8, 7:30 p.m. ET: https://youtube.com/live/G-is1eptMos Editor’s…

May 8, 2026
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Complimentary Livestream: Steve Wilson Quintet at SMOKE Jazz Club, New York

First Set, 6 p.m. ET: Second Set, 8 p.m. ET: Editor’s Note: I had the pleasure of interviewing saxophonist and…

May 1, 2026
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Newport Jazz Festival 2026 Lineup Announced: The First Under New Artistic Director Nate Smith

When the Newport Jazz Festival returns to Rhode Island’s Fort Adams State Park for the jazz jam’s 72nd iteration (July…

Apr 21, 2026
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The New Old Jazz, and Everything Jazz, for Record Store Day 2026

Spring cannot and will not hang me up the most. That’s because April 18 is my favorite secular day of…

Apr 17, 2026
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Harry Styles Curating London’s Meltdown Festival 2026: Music All the Time. Jazz, A Bit More Than Occasionally.

When it was announced that Harry Styles was curating the 31st iteration of London’s Meltdown Festival (June 11-26), we observed…

Apr 15, 2026
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Flea and the Arbiters: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Alternative Jazz Album

Even in the year 2026 I have seen writers among us still holding to some version of the following: “Music…

Apr 7, 2026
Blog

It Continues: The Kennedy Center Clown Show

For those keeping score at home: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which is the correct and…

Mar 26, 2026
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