Jazz Fest Deemed A Success (Three Years In A Row): A Look Back At The Virginia... By Troy Hoffman | Jazz in Long Form They say that music is the "great communicator," and if so then jazz is the most fluent ..read more

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2024 By Mark Sullivan | Live Review This year's official announcement of the headliners of the 44th edition of the festival included André 3000, Norah Jones, Hiatus Kaiyote, Laufey, Robert Glasper, and Orville Peck. This diverse group is notable for departing from the traditional jazz styles ..read more

By Paul Rauch | Profile The city of Seattle is the last stop of the figurative continental big-city express on the west coast of the United States. Upon arrival, passengers are blocked by the Canadian border to the north, the high Cascade mountains to the east ..read more

Best Jazz Albums of 2024: All-Star Break Edition By AAJ Staff | Year in Review As we hit the halfway mark of 2024, All About Jazz has adopted Major League Baseball's All-Star break approach but with albums instead of homers. Our team gathered to pick their top three albums of the year so far ..read more

The Mount Rushmore of Hard Bop By Michael Ricci | Readers Poll Results Member votes were tabulated and the top four vote-getters represent the Mount Rushmore of hard bop. Thank you to everyone who voted ..read more

Marshall Allen: A Century of Joyful Noise By Ian Patterson | Profile Marshall Allen turned 100 years old on May 25, 2024. Back in 1995, when Allen inherited the leadership of the Sun Ra Arkestra at the age of 71, you would have got pretty good odds that he would not be holding the chair nearly thirty years hence. But the cosmology of the Sun Ra Arkestra, and all who sail in her, is nothing if not strange ..read more

By Chuck Lenatti | Profile In an apparent effort to capitalize on the new-found popularity from his 1958 record, At the Pershing, But Not for Me (Argo LP628), Ahmad Jamal released a flurry of albums between 1958 and 1970, many of them recorded on location ..read more

By Chris May | Live Review London's Shabaka Hutchings has become best known for his incendiary open-the-gates work on tenor saxophone with Sons of Kemet, The Comet Is Coming and the South African-based Shabaka & the Ancestors. But his April 2024 album ..read more

By Chuck Lenatti | Profile Frederick Russell Jones was born on July 2, 1930, to a working-class family in Pittsburgh. His friends called him Fritz. As a boy, he delivered newspapers to Billy Strayhorn's family. He converted to Islam around 1950 and took the name Ahmad Jamal ..read more

Building Back Jazz Brick by Brick in East London By Peter Jones | Live Review The most innovative and thrilling jazz currently emerging from the UK is centred on a few grimy, narrow streets on the east side of London. The pioneering work that goes on in this elaborately-graffitied neighbourhood ..read more