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Mali Obomsawin’s ‘Sweet Tooth’ utterly defies expectation or convention - it occupies its own universe, arriving from leftfield to blow your mind.

Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell: They altered the course of American music and raised the bar for improvisation. Listen to 10 experts’ favorites.

A comprehensive list of Gainesville-area entertainment events.

Chicago jazz pianist Willie Pickens dead at 86.

“I think a great conversation to have after the screening or the performance is whether we still insist. And for this particular performance, we still insist and what that particular conversation would be and what we still insist about,” said Zimbabwean artist and activist Chiurai ahead of Thursdays performance at the Constitution Hill.

One of the most gifted and musical jazz guitarists of today takes inspiration not from his six-string brethren but from the genre’s legendary ivory ticklers

In These Times by Makaya McCraven: another profound piece of work from one of contemporary jazz's most accomplished artists

Willie Jones III shines as a drummer, band leader, composer and the head of his own record label

The best-known book of jazz standards contains 399 pieces written by men and just one by a woman. With the all-female New Standards, the pioneering drummer-bandleader is undoing the idea of jazz as a boys’ club

A native of Chicago, Illinois, Miller performed with the big bands of Lionel Hampton, Maynard Ferguson, Woody Herman, Duke Ellington, Harry Connick Jr.,