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The new film "Song Sung Blue" pays homage to the catalog of Neil Diamond, and it is one worth celebrating. We rank his 10 ...

Elder Goldwire McLendon, a former finalist on Season 3 of BET’s singing competition Sunday Best and acclaimed jazz singer ...

"I want to thank Alabama for pushing me, for praying for me," says Jazz McKenzie, a top six finalist on the NBC series. "I ...

The Memphis Grizzlies are slowly turning around their season, winning seven of their last 10 games heading into Friday’s matchup with the Utah Jazz. Utah hasn’t been as bad as it was in the 2024-25 ...

This year in country music was all about artists discovering ways to innovate old forms and traditions. In some cases, like Eric Church’s Evangeline vs. the Machine and Carter Faith’s stunning debut ...

If there's one question that professional music lovers hear most often, it's some variation on: "Heard any good albums lately?" We always have, of course, but when it came time to highlight the cream ...

It usually only takes an instant to recognize the sound Mary Halvorson gets out of her hollow-body guitar: percussive but pliable, with the odd subversive wobble. Her voice as a composer and ...

So... what kind of a year was 2025 for jazz? Well, it marked the centennial of saxophonist Gene Ammons, drummer Roy Haynes, critic Nat Hentoff, pianist Jutta Hipp ...

Two jazz singers who studied at the Frost School of Music in vastly different eras have been recognized with some of the most significant honors in jazz. Although they graduated 43 years apart, their ...

The music world refused to stand still in 2025. This wasn’t a year for playing it safe. Across the globe and all over the stylistic map, music kept mutating in the weirdest, wildest ways. The artists ...