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

By Jon Pareles Ever so self-effacingly, Garth Hudson breathed history into songs. At his magisterial ... hinting at some of the modern-jazz tangents he explored at the Band’s concerts.

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 ...

Pop broke out the ‘Every Loser’ track four songs into the setlist, following on from ‘Rune’, ‘Five Foot One’ and ‘T.V. Eye’. “‘Modern Day ... I do Montreux Jazz,” he said ...