The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians in Chicago has built community and pushed musical boundaries for 60 years. Hear 13 tracks from this jazz institution.
Category: Jazz
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Best Jazz Albums of 2025
The most compelling releases of the year reimagined hip-hop tracks, deep-rooted collaborations and longstanding inspirations.
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In Ephrat Asherie’s ‘Shadow Cities,’ Club Dance Meets Latin Jazz
Ephrat Asherie’s “Shadow Cities” pairs her group’s adept dancers with live music by the great Arturo O’Farrill.
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A Fats Waller Musical All But Disappeared (Until Now)
The jazz pianist and composer wrote music for the World War II hit “Early to Bed,” which was running when he died at 39. Two concerts will bring its songs back to life.
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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Alto Saxophone
Almost no other instrument seems so synonymous with jazz as the sax. Listen to some classic alto playing from Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Stitt and more greats.
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Grammy Nominations 2026: See the Full List of Nominees
Artists, albums and songs competing for trophies at the 68th annual ceremony were announced on Friday. The show will take place on Feb. 1, 2026 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
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How Does SML Make Experimental Jazz Albums? Very Unconventionally.
The Los Angeles quintet was born onstage, and that’s exactly how it records LPs: by capturing live performances and twisting them, sometimes beyond recognition.
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A Sacred Space Where 90-Year-Old Jazz Records Reign
At the Hot Club of New York, patrons revisit the music’s past by spinning shellac 78 RPM discs of recordings made in the 1910s to ’50s.
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Jack DeJohnette, Revered Jazz Drummer, Dies at 83
Endowed with spectacular range, he played with Miles Davis, led New Directions and Special Edition, and spent decades with Keith Jarrett’s Standards Trio.
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Jack DeJohnette: 7 Essential Recordings
The drummer and pianist, who died on Sunday at 83, was a master of many styles and an ever-evolving innovator.
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Anthony Jackson, Master of the Electric Bass, Is Dead at 73
Besides his work with pop stars and jazz greats, he is credited with helping to invent the six-string contrabass guitar.
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Danny Thompson, Bassist Who Defied Folk Conventions, Dies at 86
A bedrock of the idiosyncratic British group Pentangle, he went on to play with a host of luminaries, including Roy Orbison, Eric Clapton and Kate Bush.