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Thelonious Monk had a gift for reconciling musical experiment with the immediacy of pop.

Saxophonist Vincent Herring talks with WBGO’s Gary Walker about the legacy of John Coltrane who will be celebrated with a festival at the Smoke jazz club in New York City.

An alto saxophone played by John Coltrane, a tablecloth signed and doodled on by The Beatles and Joan Baez on the night of the Beatles’ last ever

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CHELSEA TABLE + STAGE – New York’s newest hotspot for intimate dining and extraordinary music – will present award-winning pianist and composer Charu Suri in “Raga Jazz: An Evening of Raga Jazz and Sufi Music” on Wednesday, May 18 at 7:00 PM.

The sonic equivalent of grits, greens, and gravy, 'Home Cookin'' confirmed Blue Note organist Jimmy Smith as a soul jazz master chef.

Sixty years ago, a pathbreaking jazz album from Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln, and Oscar Brown, Jr., fused politics and art in the fight for Black liberation. Black artists are taking similar strides today.