As a long and eventful 2025 draws to a close, NME remembers the influential and beloved musicians who left us this year ...

The bassist’s reissued ‘Mingus at Monterey’ and the drummer’s previously unreleased ‘Strasbourg 82’ highlight both musicians not just as players but as master bandleaders with an outsize influence on ...

A self-taught session man extraordinaire, he played with a constellation of stars, including Michael Jackson, Curtis Mayfield, Chaka Khan and Dizzy Gillespie.

While still in high school, Upchurch started playing with popular neighborhood groups such as the Cool Gents, who were ...

Tanita Tikaram, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Bill Frisell Trio and Mulatu Astatke, the father of Ethiopian jazz, are among the exciting gigs at this year’ s festival. From 14–23 November 2025, London will ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The 13th annual Eastside Kings Festival is set for this weekend. More than 20 bands and artists will play across five venues in historic east Austin on Saturday and Sunday. Eastside ...

Bill Frisell, one of the world’s most acclaimed jazz guitarists, was puzzled. At the conclusion of the first of his two Oct. 1 shows at the rebranded, reengineered and reborn New Orleans Jazz & Blues ...

The New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market is reopening Oct. 1 with a slate of performers and an interior overhaul aimed at making the venue one of the nation’s premier listening rooms. The nonprofit ...

The New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market, a non-profit organization on a mission to bring the most talented, accomplished and passionate jazz and blues musicians to the stage, announced today that it will ...

Earlier this month, the Grateful Dead’s seminal eighth studio album, Blues for Allah, reached its 50th anniversary and received a deluxe rerelease. The collection, known for its capacity to carry a ...

It was a big day for the blues at the Monterey Jazz Festival on Saturday. Mr. Sipp, the Mississippi blues belter who won the The B.B. King Entertainer of the Year trophy at the 2025 Blues Music Awards ...

The Mesilla Valley Jazz and Blues Festival is set to return Oct. 3 through Oct. 5, featuring a lineup of local bands. The festival, hosted by the Mesilla Valley Jazz and Blues Society, will take place ...