Considering Genius collects jazz writing spanning 27 years from the famed polemicist of jazz’s neo-conservative movement, Stanley Crouch. The 30 pieces collected here constitute not so much a book ...

Pitchfork’s Allison Hussey speaks with three artists whose bold works are redefining jazz and expanding its appeal to younger and more diverse audiences. Samora Pinderhughes, Cécile Mclorin Salvant ...

The signature event of the University of Akron JazzFest 2009 -- Wednesday's concert featuring Diane Schuur -- is sold out. But don't despair, jazz fans, you can still hear three concerts featuring ...

Reading music criticism has always been a dicey affair. But never one to shy away from reading better writers, I read the first two installments of the new Da Capo Press Series, The Da Capo Best Music ...

Salinger’s musings on jazz are significant not because he was in any way an authority on the subject, but because The Catcher in the Rye, which has sold over 60 million copies, captured what was ...

“Jazz has absorbed whatever was around from the very beginning,” the writer Francis Davis told Wen Stephenson in a 1996 interview. The same might have been said of Davis, who died last week at 78.

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. “Jazz has absorbed whatever was around from the very beginning,” the ...