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Profiles

Jazz Pianist Emmet Cohen Doubles Up, Seeks Truth with Miles & Coltrane at 100

Few artists hold the energy, emotional appeal and downright charm that Emmet Cohen contains. An adroit pianist, compelling composer and savvy history-forward broadcaster-curator-entrepreneur with his Live from Emmet’s Place vid-streaming broadcast (along with its adjacent Emmet’s Place Education showcase) and his Master Legacy Series, it…

Mar 15, 2026
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Albums

Jazz Sax/Piano Duos of the Season

Mar 14, 2026
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Books

Another Cool Re-Birthed: Visions of Jack Kerouac and Jazz in Book and Exhibition Form

Mar 13, 2026
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Blog

Book Worms: Jazz Journalists Association Announces Jazz Awards Book Nominations for 2026

Mar 13, 2026
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Special Feature

Listening Session: William Parker Talks Classic Free Jazz Recordings, Part II

Mar 12, 2026
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Special Feature

Listening Session: William Parker Talks Classic Free Jazz Recordings, Part I

Mar 12, 2026

Latest Stories

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In Memoriam: Don Schlitten (1932-2026)

Mar 9, 2026
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Going Mono, Getting Analog: The New Sound of Vintage Jazz

Mar 3, 2026
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Willie Colón, Salsa and Latin Music Giant, Dies at 75

Feb 23, 2026
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NYC Mayor Mamdani, Pianist/Composer Arturo O’Farrill Break Ground at Timbale Terrace

Feb 18, 2026
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Jazz Legacies Fellows for 2026 Revealed

Feb 17, 2026
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When Dizzy Gillespie Ran for President

Feb 15, 2026
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Coming to Brooklyn: Voices of Healing & Liberation with Amina Claudine Myers and More

Feb 13, 2026
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A Jazz Angle on Bad Bunny at Super Bowl LX

Feb 8, 2026

Features

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Profiles

Greg Rahn’s Vintage PC Game Dreams

One of the men behind the 1997 PC game Riven: The Sequel to Myst recently ripped an infectious cover of…

Mar 8, 2026
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Profiles

Jazz Guitar Icon Pat Metheny’s Side-Eye Back on Road & Big Ears Festival–Bound

There’ve been two JazzTimes cover stories on Pat Metheny under my byline, one in 2005 for the release of The…

Mar 6, 2026
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Profiles

Serious Fun: Alto Saxophonist Sarah Hanahan Expands on the Jazz Lineage of Jackie McLean and More

Sarah Hanahan is onstage with an all-star band at Dizzy’s Club in New York in 2024, playing music from her…

Mar 3, 2026
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Special Feature

Book Excerpt – Let Me Be Frank: The Extraordinary Life and Music of Frank Sinatra, Jr.

Editor’s note: The following excerpt from Let Me Be Frank: The Extraordinary Life and Music of Frank Sinatra, Jr. (University…

Mar 2, 2026
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Profiles

From Jazz Man to Scatman: The Remarkable Story of the World’s Unlikeliest Pop Star, Scatman John

In the jazz pantheon, John Larkin is a little-known but still valued commodity. The El Monte, California–born pianist and singer…

Feb 28, 2026
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Profiles

The Widow’s Taste Is Fine, and Swinging: Laurie Pepper on Saxophonist-Husband Art Pepper

Laurie Pepper acted as wife, agent, co-autobiographer and manager to the affairs of her husband, saxophonist-composer Art Pepper, until his…

Feb 26, 2026
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Profiles

Melissa Aldana’s New Ballads Album with a Twist

When tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana originally set out to record Filin, her first album of ballads, she learned that playing…

Feb 25, 2026
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Profiles

The Bellows and Keys of Ben Rosenblum

If you are any sort of insular, bookwormy child who happens to play the accordion, the desire for connection is…

Feb 22, 2026
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Reviews

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Books

Book Review – Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane

In celebration of his centenary, John Coltrane will be feted with a wealth of album rarity releases, massive box sets,…

Mar 7, 2026
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Albums

Blue-Collar Jazz with Stew Cutler and Noah Pierre

When I was a kid, I watched my father, a tenor saxophonist and singer, go off most weekends to play.…

Mar 5, 2026
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Books

Book Review: Joe Fonda, My Life in the World of Music 

Just after crossing the finish line reading bassist Joe Fonda’s newly self-published autobiography, the chance to see him in person…

Mar 4, 2026
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Live

Livestream Review from Smoke Jazz Club: Miguel Zenón Quartet Came to Play

Friday evening, February 27 was time for me to check in virtually with the Miguel Zenón Quartet at Smoke, blocks…

Feb 28, 2026
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Albums

There Can Never Be Enough Kenny Wheeler Music

A void was left with the departure of the great Kenny Wheeler (1930-2014), who gave voice, on trumpet and flugelhorn,…

Feb 27, 2026
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Albums

Sweeps Week: February Historical Releases & Reissues

Sweeps Week concludes on the last Thursday of the month, with historical/reissue picks from our reviewers. Paul McCandless, Live at…

Feb 26, 2026
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Sweeps Week: Top February Jazz Releases, Henkin Edition

Here are Andrey Henkin’s monthly picks, coming to you the last Wednesday of the month. Pat Bianchi, Confluence (ind.) Pat…

Feb 25, 2026
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Sweeps Week: Top February Jazz Releases, Amorosi Edition

Here are A.D. Amorosi’s monthly picks, coming to you the last Tuesday of the month. Momoko Gill, Momoko (Strut Records)…

Feb 24, 2026
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More Stories

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Blog

The Lincoln (Center) Logjam: Wynton Marsalis Splits JALC

The news has traveled fast: Wynton Marsalis will step away from his leadership role at Jazz at Lincoln Center in…

Feb 1, 2026
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Field Guide to Jazz at the 68th Grammy Awards, 2026

When it comes to Grammy time, Field 4 is the primary domain of this publication, with its focus on Jazz,…

Jan 31, 2026
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Don Lemon, Friend of New Orleans Jazz, Is Arrested for Journalism

Even now, some will say that JazzTimes should “stay in its lane” and just talk jazz — though the same…

Jan 30, 2026
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Rebecca Kilgore, Vocalist, Curator, Sophisticated Lady, Dies at 76

Rebecca Kilgore, the effortlessly elegant vocalist, whose primary goal was to bring swing and the classics and rarities of the…

Jan 20, 2026
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Saying No and Meaning Yes: The Contradictions of David Bowie’s Blackstar Ten Years On

The evening-into-morning of January 10, 2016, the day that David Bowie died, I remember my wife waking me up with…

Jan 2, 2026
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Brain Drain in Full Effect at the “Trump Kennedy Center”

Recent days have seen a snowball effect as artists cancel long-scheduled gigs at the Kennedy Center: first Chuck Redd, then…

Dec 30, 2025
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Billy Martin Makes the Lamps That Shine

You know Billy Martin, the downtown New York drummer-percussionist for Bob Moses, Dave Burrell and John Lurie (The Lounge Lizards,…

Dec 15, 2025
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Blog

Top Everything Jazz of 2025, Amorosi Edition (with haikus)

Your world is crumbling now, for so many reasons. Mine was too in 2025, until JazzTimes restarted, found me and…

Dec 12, 2025
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