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.

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 ...

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 ...

Thelonious Monk’s best-known composition, “’Round Midnight,” was first recorded 80 years ago this month. His slow, moody ballad ranks as among his finest work and one of the most enduring ...