The holiday concert season in Philly is in full swing, with touring acts and local musicians capping off the year with plenty ...

If pop is the musical equivalent of widely enjoyed fast food, jazz would be its high-brow, haute counterpart. However, several mainstream artists aim to combine the best of modern pop and classic jazz ...

Jazz thrives in cities with history: New Orleans, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago. These cities are also places where you’d expect a new festival to pop up and have success, taking full advantage of a ...

Jazz is everywhere, and you’ve probably run into it this year even if you weren’t looking for it. It informs so much of the great hip hop and electronic music that comes out all the time, and it finds ...

Buzzy debuts (Chappell Roan, Evian Christ) and anticipated follow-ups (Jorja Smith, yeule) are due this season. After a summer dominated by blockbuster tours by Taylor Swift and Beyoncé, this fall the ...

It’s just a fad. That’s what critics and musicians, Black and white alike, had to say about hip-hop and rap music in 1983. The history of recorded hip-hop and rap music began in 1979 with Fatback’s ...

I should’ve known that something was in the air when the first songs I heard at the biggest jazz music festival in the world were by Outkast, Arrested Development, Common, and A Tribe Called Quest. As ...