Listen to the best jazz Christmas songs on Spotify ... to write something timeless that could fit right into one of those classic Christmas compilations.” The song was arranged by Tom Richards ...

We celebrated the music that makes us feel on top of the world with the Classic 100 ... Bill Bailey to Maxim Vengerov And our very own ABC Jazz turned 15, continuing an 80-year legacy of jazz ...

Guitarist and composer Mary Halvorson’s music speaks with the unruffled directness of nursery rhymes and folk songs, but then you dig deeper and realise she’s ... Philip Clark is an author and ...

When I was 17, Bill Murray told me I was a very powerful woman’ - INTERVIEW: With deep, diving vocals that recall jazz icons ...

He won several Downbeat polls for best ... songs. “Everything Happens to Me” comes from Chet Baker Sings It Could Happen to You, from his late 50s stint on Riverside, and it’s a classic ...

Entertainment Weekly rounds up the 27 best Christmas albums of all time, featuring legends like Nat King Cole and Elvis ...

The competition’s slim at best. His piano playing and melodic sense blended European classical technique with jazz licks and the ... crafting songs that fit him to a T, delivering them with ...

By Hank Shteamer In 2024, jazz continued to spiral out, looking both forward and backward and expanding to mingle with adjacent styles. The year’s most memorable releases in the genre are ...

The Grammy winner reflects on recording with Milton Nascimento, discovering Bach on "Mr. Rogers" and challenging sexism. How ...

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NPR Music's list of best songs of the year has something for everyone. December 2, 2024 • You can't always know that it's a great year for new music while it's happening, but there was a sense ...

Here, then, are for me the 10 best new jazz recordings of 2024 ... in order to explore traditional jazz and 20 th-century classical more deeply, and especially since 2021, when he signed with ...