It’s the birthday today of December Featured Artist, soul jazz organ great Jimmy Smith. In honor of the occasion, we devote ...

Dive into five of the best Christmas albums of the past century. From a range of musical styles and artists, here’s a guide ...

Connick is already an old hand at the Christmas format. Perhaps the jazziest of this year’s crop of Christmas jazz records, “What A Night!” is Connick’s third holiday release, a mix of standards and ...

Acclaimed jazz vocalist Lizzie Thomas rings in the holiday season with This Christmas. This is a radiant collection of holiday classics and originals that blend jazz, Neo-soul, and R&B with her ...

While at my desk editing the recent Erin Samms review of two singles from the new CD titled HOLIDAYS by jazz proficients Ted Nash and Kristen Lee Sergeant, I found myself thinking, “I gotta hear this ...

Those magical makers of music are at it again. That dream team of jazz, the great Ted Nash and the glorious Kristen Lee Sergeant, have made a Christmas album. There certainly isn’t a shortage of new ...

1.Royal Garden Blues 2.Yellow Dog Blues 3.I Can't Get Started 4.South Rampart Street Parade 5.Brassman's Holiday 6.Second Chance 7.The Tin Roof Blues 8.Just A Closer Walk With Thee 9.The Birth Of The ...

There is no “ultimate” Billie Holiday collection, since her output is owned by competing labels, but this novel set celebrating what would have been the singer’s 90th birthday — two CDs and a DVD — ...

When the buzz started heating up on the wires during the summer, it seemed like either a complete hoax, someone’s idea of sheer madness, or just one of the most bizarre music stories to emerge in ...

NORTHAMPTON — Kimaya Diggs’ fourth annual holiday show, coming to the Iron Horse Music Hall on Dec. 20, is “one-part jazz show, one-part campy variety and one-part elf magic.” “I can’t believe it’s ...