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We’ve been asking writers, musicians and scholars to tell us what songs they’d play to get people into jazz. This month, we decided to highl

This label founded in 1971 gave Afrocentric and psychedelic jazz a home, and found a breakout hit with Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson. Take a guided tour through its deep catalog.

Hip-hop, soul, jazz, and beyond are art forms that seep from every facet of the creative Black being. Here are our pics Best Black Albums of 2023.

On Sunday, October 22nd, NTS, the global music platform and radio station, will be hosting a celebration of the 75th anniversary of the iconic label Folkways Records, a collaboration with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Broadcasting all day, from 7am - 7pm EDT / 11am - 11pm BST, we’re inviting friends and admirers of the label onto the airwaves to share some of their favorite recordings from the label’s seven-decade history, as well as speaking to figures who were key in making Folkways the cultural institution it is today.

Red Hot & Ra: Nuclear War compilation review: a brilliant barometer of the vanguard of American jazz in 2023, in tribute to Sun Ra