KMHD Jazz Radio is celebrating its 40th year on the air this month. KMHD is the top-rated jazz station in the nation at a time when full-time jazz radio stations are rare. It has been a staple of the ...

Jazz or Classical—who gets more respect, more funding, and more prestige? In this passionate rant, we break down the long-standing divide between classical purists and jazz innovators. Why is one seen ...

DaCamera's noble efforts notwithstanding, top-tier jazz talent doesn’t perform in Houston nearly as often as it should. This week it will. On Thursday, the Houston Symphony will welcome the University ...

Summer and fall have long been peak festival season here in Chicago. But this year takes things even further. Multi-day extravaganzas are everywhere this autumn: You have your time-honored jazz ...

At 92 years old, Ed Love is still on the air. The jazz radio afficionado has hosted “Destination Jazz: The Ed Love Program” on WDET since 1983 and worked in the radio industry for years before that.

The "Neapolitan 6th" chord (N6) is another sonority whose definition is based on the triad that it makes, which is a vertical perspective that glosses over its actual horizontal function. It is ...

Viewed in this way, we can see the blues as a quest for existential answers to questions that have always been, and always will be—they have no beginning, and no end. In my article about Harmony and ...

Editor’s note: The article is updated with additional information about jazz radio station WDCB. Ever since musicians like Louis Armstrong, King Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton were playing at nightclubs ...

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