In the early ’80s, jazz legend Max Roach worked with hip-hop musicians, and in 1983, Herbie Hancock’s groundbreaking track “Rockit” helped introduce hip-hop to the mainstream.

Jazz's popularity grows, and as it attracts a wider audience, so do campaigns to censor this "devil's music." Early detractors like Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph, ridicule jazz, saying ...

When the magazine began covering jazz in the 1920s, it often struggled to ... “There are times,” the critic Henrietta Straus reluctantly granted in early 1922, “when jazz may be regarded ...

SUMMERS: From the mid-1960s into the early '80s, nearly every Sunday from 5 p.m. onward, the Famous Ballroom was reserved for concerts put on by Baltimore's Left Bank Jazz Society. These were ...

Saxophonist-bandleader-visionary Anthony Braxton turns 80 on June 4, and if you’re not familiar with his mesmerizing sound world, that likely has more to do with a media obsessed with ...