Samara Joy

Jazz vocalist Samara Joy added two more Grammys to her growing collection. Here's who else won in jazz and instrumental categories.

Drawn to its authenticity and timelessness, Rea and her friends are embracing jazz classics and Gen Z jazz stars, like Laufey and Samara Joy, as they navigate adulthood.

Samara Joy, who won Best New Artist as well as Best Jazz Vocal Album at the 65th Grammy Awards, is one thing we can all agree on.

Don't be shocked by the 23-year-old jazz singer's breakneck rise from precocious college student to best new artist Grammy nominee. In those few years, she's been building three careers at once.

Watch Lara Downes' conversation with the 23-year-old, Grammy-nominated sensation about balancing the demands of a surging career and the women artists who paved the way.

Voting is now open to the public for select categories in the 54th NAACP Image Awards. KNKX highlights the jazz music and films among this year's nominees.

During its first in-person edition since the start of the pandemic era, the Winter Jazzfest found familiar purpose and renewed conviction in delirious overabundance.

New York-based Samara Joy visits Seattle this month, performing with the Pasquale Grasso Trio. Ahead of her 2021 debut album, the young jazz vocalist won the 2019 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. KNKX Jazz Reporter Robin Lloyd spoke with Joy about her experiences in the "bigger classroom" since she graduated last year.

Recorded while she was still in college, the young vocalist's first album was "more than just an imposing debut," according to jazz critic Kevin Whitehead. "The album Samara Joy is a public service announcement for jazz education."