Born in Chicago and raised in California, Miles attended Chouinard Art Institute in LA after a stint in the navy. Eventually relocating to New York City, he worked at Esquire magazine for a time and ...

Jazz fans are much like baseball geeks; they collect facts and statistics. The baseball fan will know a player's numbers such as on base percentage, at bats, home runs and stolen bases, whereas the ...

He Made Jazz Visual William Claxton, the photographer responsible for some of the most iconic jazz album covers, died this week. John spoke to him last year at OCMA's "Birth of the Cool" Exhibit.

Pop Art The 100 Best Album Covers of All Time From Biggie to Beyoncé to Bad Bunny, from Nirvana to Nas to Neil Young, this is the album art that changed the way we see music ...

Two new jazz releases find a pair of saxophonists taking similar stands. On “Belonging,” Branford Marsalis leads his working quartet through a full-album take on Keith Jarrett’s 1974 LP of ...

The soundtrack has been released for the new film Joker: Folie à Deux, featuring vocals from Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga. The movie features musical sequences reminiscent of classic MGM ...

The pianist Orrin Evans, the bassist Eric Revis and the drummer Nasheet Waits have each been indispensable to 21st-century jazz, both as bandleaders and sidemen. But despite a near-20-year history ...

I attended the successful album launch of KTB, Manila’s premier jazz ensemble, at the jam-packed Makati music bar called 78-45-33 on July 18 ...

The melody of the swinging and funny “Only Jazz” was first written when Shire, now 86, was in college, with new lyrics written for Minnock. The title track was composed for the album.

Now, as the composer and pianist turns 90 years old, he's set to embark on a world tour. As busy as ever, Ibrahim has just released a massive double album, recorded in London, called 3.