From Can't Buy a Thrill to Pretzel Logic to The Royal Scam to Aja, the definitive ranking of Steely Dan's studio albums ...

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Musicians both established and up-and-coming stretched themselves in fresh ways over the last year, creating poignant moments of collaboration and challenge. By Hank Shteamer In 2024, jazz continued ...

The electric guitar is the alpha instrument in rock music, but there have been plenty of great acoustic songs as well.

The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz, but the best guitarists have taken up the challenge of finding their own way. Fourteen musicians and writers share their favorites. Credit..

Bay Area jazz fans have been watching the career of Julian Lage for, well, most of his life. And we mean that pretty much literally, given that he was a child prodigy and the focus of a documentary ...

Known for playing bass guitar in the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Flea is releasing his first solo album -- and it features his first love: jazz trumpet. It's called "Honora." ...

So... what kind of a year was 2025 for jazz? Well, it marked the centennial of saxophonist Gene Ammons, drummer Roy Haynes, critic Nat Hentoff, pianist Jutta Hipp ...

Although he is not commonly linked to the classic organ-combo tradition, Montgomery actually began his Riverside tenure in an organ trio with his fellow Indianapolis native Melvin Rhyne (The Wes ...

Back in the early 1980s, Alex Skolnick was pretty much like any other teenager. He loved electric guitar players like Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads and George Lynch. “I was caught up in the whole ...