The year’s most thrilling albums were made by artists pushing beyond borders, teaming with new collaborators and making bold statements of their own.

The flute is one of the more overlooked instruments in jazz, but it’s been making an impact on improvised music for more than 50 years….

The 24-year-old multi-instrumentalist found fame on TikTok with her nostalgic songs. But her dedication to her followers may be holding her music back.

Jahari Stampley, a 23-year-old pianist from Chicago, won the prize as the genre’s premier coronation ceremony for young talent was held for the first time…

All it might take is a second and a half of hearing her sing to make your spine tingle or your heart drop. Opera singers,…

The three-song 1976 recording arrives in a new boxed set at what seems a perfect moment to deepen our appreciation for the saxophonist’s role in…

The trumpeter will release “Owl Song,” a spare new album, this fall as he takes on a new role as artistic director of the Herbie…

The trumpeter and composer follows the premiere of two Met operas with an appointment as executive artistic director of SFJazz in San Francisco and a…

The trumpeter, who died a year ago at 39, recorded “Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((World War))” with her quartet in…

Navigate the trumpeter’s snaky, endless grooves with picks from Flying Lotus, Cindy Blackman Santana and Terence Blanchard, among other musicians, writers and critics.