The Unsigned Only Music Awards is honored to announce that Marshall Allen, the respected alto saxophonist and leader of the legendary Sun Ra Arkestra, has been named the Best Jazz Artist in the 2025 ...

Assessing the best jazz albums of any current year could be a tricky affair. The tricky part lies in the term current, as during any given year there is a slew of reissued jazz albums that can ...

Five-time Grammy Award-winning jazz artist Samara Joy comes from a family of musicians, with her dad being a bass player and her grandparents who led a Philadelphia-based gospel group. Ahead of her ...

The 25-year-old singing sensation now has five Grammy wins to her credit, including for Best Jazz Vocal Album in 2023 for her chart-topping “Linger Awhile” and this year for “Portrait.” She also won ...

Rising young talents and revered veterans helped take jazz to a multitude of exciting new destinations in 2025. But the most notable debut album of the year, the aptly titled “New Dawn,” came from a ...

Your humble columnist has been felled. On June 7, coming home from a concert by D.C.-born, Baltimore-based pianist Lafayette Gilchrist, this writer was in a rib- and collarbone-shattering accident ...

On Dec. 9, 1964, saxophonist John Coltrane, bassist Jimmy Garrison, pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones assembled at Englewood Cliffs, N.J.’s Van Gelder Studio. That one-day session became a ...

Acclaimed jazz artists Byron Stripling, Bobby Floyd, Sydney McSweeney and Jim Rupp, performing with the Elmhurst University Jazz Band, will headline the 29th annual June Jazz concert on Saturday, June ...

HOUSTON — Sunday evening marked a night to showcase some of Houston's best Jazz musicians as part of the evolution of Houston music. Jazzy Sundays in the Park hosted a kickoff to its months-long ...