Branford Marsalis, Joshua White and Patricia Brennan are just some of the artists who released head-turning albums this year.

KNKX receives thousands of fresh songs per year for programming consideration. Here are the jazz releases from 2025 that rose ...

Saxophonist and senior at Interlake High School jazz band Vikram Jagannathan shares his favorite jazz with KNKX listeners.

Jazz thrived around the world in 2025, with major events taking place everywhere from San Diego and Tijuana to Abu Dhabi and ...

Gunther Schuller leads the NEC Jazz Orchestra in rehearsal in Jordan Hall, 1990. Schuller coined the term "Third Stream" when referring to the genre that blends classical and jazz. From jazz to ...

One of the more adventurous and transformative eras in jazz happened amid the societal turbulence of the mid- to late-1960s, and Miles Davis and John Coltrane were leading the way. In his new book ...

February might catch you off guard. While the rest of the country settles into winter’s grip, music fans know this month ...

Ethiopian jazz musician Mulatu Astatke smiled as he held his arms aloft to acknowledge his audience for the last time. Last ...

When the music becomes too complex, it no longer functions well as popular music, and the converse is also true— when it gets too simple, it loses its ability to capture and hold the attention of a ...

An international research team investigated the brains of 16 jazz pianists while they played a piece from memory, improvised ...

Historic Washington State Park will host a free summer concert series, "An Evening of Jazz," featuring the Majestic Jazz Band ...