Latest Jazz Music

Early in his career, clarinetist Andy Biskin worked as an assistant to the folklorist Alan Lomax. Biskin's new album features new settings of songs drawn from Lomax's The Folk Songs of North America. ... read more

Iron & Wine has been performing the song live since at least 2013, but has just given it its first proper release ahead of the band's upcoming EP, Weed Garden.(Image credit: Kim Black/Courtesy of the artist) ... read more

When three friends are good at what they do and they're having a lot of fun with each other doing it, we're all in for a good time. That's what this session promises.(Image credit: John Evin Groome/WXPN) ... read more

The London post-hardcore band finds strength in sisterhood on a new single from its forthcoming EP, The Future is Dark. (Image credit: Wimair.at/Courtesy of the artist) ... read more

They are often beloved classics, or works of pure genius. And you never, ever need to hear them again. They are the songs that must be retired.(Image credit: Westend61/Getty Images/Westend61) ... read more

Nate Chinen's new book Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century identifies the key players in the genre's resurgence. Chinen's aim with the books is to get the root of the resurgence.(Image credit: Amy Harris/AP) ... read more

Collins is no stranger to protest songs. The storied folk singer weighs in on the current immigration debate with a personal, new song. (Image credit: JC Lainez/Courtesy of the artist) ... read more

Sarah Davachi's electro-acoustic compositions seek the corners of quiet with a studious and patient curiosity.(Image credit: Dicky Bahto/Courtesy of the artist) ... read more

In his autobiography, Siren Song, Stein writes about how he started out in the music business as a teen before going on to sign groundbreaking artists like Talking Heads, Madonna, Ice-T and k.d. lang. ... read more

Call it psychedelic, call it classic or call it the sound of new Nashville. Liz Cooper and The Stampede is leading the rock pack in Tennessee right now. (Image credit: Lindsay Patkos/Courtesy of the artist) ... read more

On the band's ninth album, Ben Gibbard addresses an array of life's aftermaths, set against propulsive arrangements that know just when to sparkle and sway.(Image credit: Eliot Lee Hazel/Courtesy of the artist) ... read more

Even from its beginnings in late-60s Oakland, the band has always stoof out. Fifty years later, its devotion to classic horn-driven soul remains unmatched, its passion and precision unchanged.(Image credit: Samantha Clark/NPR) ... read more

Julia Ward Howe wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" as a rousing anthem for the Union in the Civil War. Since then, it's been caught in a cultural tug-of-war over who it's an anthem for — social conservatives, evangelical Christians, labor workers or civil rights leaders. ... read more

It's rock, it's hip hop, it's sung in English ... can it still be "Latin music"? Music and cultural identity intersect in surprising ways in this week's list of tunes shared by Alt.Latino. ... read more

John Lennon and Paul McCartney have differing memories of who wrote the music for "In My Life." A mathematics professor has spent 10 years working with statistics to decide once and for all.(Image credit: AP) ... read more