The free jazz revolution that began in the mid-1950s represented an artistic and sociopolitical response to the economic, racial, and musical climate of jazz and the nation. In parallel with the ...

Earlier this year, we posted a fun jazz feature called "The First Five: One Man's Introduction To Jazz." Long-time NPR Arts editor Tom Cole recalled walking into a Washington, D.C. area record store ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Watch a video introduction to jazz, narrated by John Hasse, curator of American music for the National Museum of American History. Hasse discusses ...

"For the avant-garde, it was liberating. It just changed everything." Submarine Ent. has debuted the doc trailer for Fire Music: The Story of Free Jazz, about the exciting free jazz movement of the ...

For some, Ken Burns’ 2001 PBS series Jazz was a definitive, open-and-shut take on its subject, as comprehensive a portrait of the genre as one could hope for. For others, the series was a major slight ...