From modern jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette to masterful scatter and vocalist Nancy King, KNKX remembers the lives of notable jazz musicians who passed away this year.

One nice spring day in May 2024, trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire and his band—a distinctive lineup of pianist Sam Harris, drummer Justin Brown, synthesizer player Chiquitamagic, rapper-vocalist ...

On June 13 the sad news arrived that legendary South African drummer and composer Louis Moholo-Moholo had passed away at 85 after a long illness. Louis, “Tebogo,” Bra Louis, as he was variously and ...

Courting controversy, that impish Radio 1 Worldwide DJ Gilles Peterson has just announced A Night Of Death Jazz at Camden's Roundhouse which will feature Tokyo's Soil & “Pimp" Sessions, The Mighty ...

Ahmad Jamal, whose music was sampled by Nas, Jay-Z, De La Soul and many other Hip-Hop artists, died at the age of 92. The influential pianist, who was born Frederick Russell Jones, died of ...

One of the first jazz musicians from Poland to gain an international following, he recorded more than 60 albums and played ...

What is jazz? Beacon of the oppressed; music of New Orleans bordellos; popular dance music; revolutionary music; high-art music with an established cannon; progressive music that absorbs and grows; ...

It's been observed that (at least according to the traditional forms) Jazz -- _the_ American musical form -- is dead. It died, they tell us, of starvation. Jazz is at heart an improvisational ...

Here’s what Buffalo-raised, world-touring jazz bassist Juini Booth wrote to me immediately after hearing about the recent death of jazz bassist Charlie Haden: “Charlie’s a folk hero,” wrote Juini.

In “3 Shades of Blue,” journalist James Kaplan — author, among other books, of “Frank: The Voice,” and “Sinatra: The Chairman” — takes a deep dive into these developments. His book is structured ...