Esperanza Spalding

London saxophonist and composer Nubya Garcia releases her highly anticipated new album "Odyssey" September 20.

Darren Barrett releases two albums in July, funk grooves of The Get Down 4 Real and the experimental The Path to Our Truth.

Shabaka Hutchings had the world's attention as a saxophone player but left them behind for flutes on his new album giving his fans their first taste of his new direction.

Jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard is leading the movement toward inclusion of Black stories in the opera realm, and saxophonist Wayne Shorter realizes his dream with an operatic version of a classic Greek tale.

Now in its 15th year, the Portland Jazz Festival begins this week, running February 15th through the 25th. Always a great excuse to visit the Rose City,…

Thirty years after presenting its first concerts in San Francisco, the organization SFJAZZ has built a permanent home and performance venue. The SFJAZZ…

Every so often, a barrage of articles and blog posts come out claiming that jazz has found the musician or musicians that are going to “save” jazz. More…

Esperanza Spalding walked into the KPLU Seattle studios like some teenaged gunslinger. However, she’d been working full time in music for most of her 25…