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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Historic Washington State Park will host a free summer concert series, "An Evening of Jazz," featuring the Majestic Jazz Band, William McNally, and the 106th Army Arkansas National Guard Jazz Band on ...

The voice, tone, phrasing—in effect, the signature sound of the saxophone has distinguished a number of artists. The late Wayne Shorter, having just passed away at 89, has been a profound force of ...