All About Jazz features a free song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the songs featured in January, these ten ...

The last surviving original member of the Band died on Tuesday. He was a master on keys and saxophones who could conjure a panoply of scenes and eras.

Billie Holiday was peerless when it came to conveying the emotion in a song In the 1940s, the swing era gave way to what was then known as “modern jazz ... of the songs they played ...

During the 1940s, jazz gradually parted ways with popular music. A new generation of modern jazz performers known as beboppers developed a style of lightning-fast improvisation meant for serious ...