For a lot of years, Vera Brandes couldn’t listen. Not once had she heard the bestselling solo jazz album of all time—Keith Jarrett’s passionate and sublime The Köln Concert—though she’d been essential to making it happen in 1975 as an 18-year-old music promoter in Cologne,

Martha' singer Tom Waits is an icon who straddles the worlds of folk, jazz, and a plethora of others. But there is one solo jazz album that has inspired him.

The drummer and pianist, who died on Sunday at 83, was a master of many styles and an ever-evolving innovator.

Back in the early 1980s, Alex Skolnick was pretty much like any other teenager. He loved electric guitar players like Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads and George Lynch. “I was caught up in the whole screaming lead guitar thing,” he says. “I was part of ...

Hancock, one of the foremost living figures in the history of jazz, comes to the Boch Center Wang Theatre on Oct. 29 leading a quintet he’s been touring with for several years.

A piano played by jazz legend Duke Ellington during a show in Eastbourne is being restored. Ellington, who led and composed music for his band across six decades, performed at the Congress Theatre in December 1973, five months before he died aged 75.