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"Jesus Maria" simmers the regal, brass-forward Christmas carol composed by Carla Bley into a sunset.
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The lauded guitarist's career spanned nearly six decades, beginning with an auspicious education in Pennsylvania from a teacher of John Coltrane.
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That this music proudly defies classification is only natural — it's a core part of Smith's message.
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In the late '60s through the '70s, Don and Moki Cherry imagined a world where creative music, education and the arts all lived together.
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Maverick jazz composer Anthony Braxton was set to spend his 75th birthday performing at events around the world, but then... well, you know. He has two new boxed sets out this month.
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The prolific bassist and two-time Grammy-nominated producer and guitarist come together to distill the sonic creativity of their album, Notes With Attachments.
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For the final entry in Morning Edition's Song Project series, Vijay Iyer wrote a rhizomatic, inviting — and not entirely placating — instrumental piece to encapsulate his past year.
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Vibration is always critical for Melvin Gibbs, whose electric bass has motored everyone from Ronald Shannon Jackson to Rollins Band.
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The Connecticut-born bassist was known both for his attack on the fingerboard and the decades he spent nurturing the next generation of players.
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The Erroll Garner Jazz Project is collaborating on a deep, retrospective reissue of the composer and piano prodigy's live work, marking his 100th birthday in September.
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Filmed at Dizzy's Club, Helen Sung's quartet plays several pieces born out of the sorrow, loss and anxiety caused by the pandemic.
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After cutting his teeth in Detroit, a move to New York near the middle of the century found him directly in the center of a deeply important moment for jazz.