Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes) and at Apple Music here, and sign up for The Amplifier, a twice-weekly guide to new and old songs. Marshall Allen featuring Ne ...

We Knew What We Had: The Greatest Jazz Story Never Told is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV ...

The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz, but the best guitarists have taken up ... greats (think Earl Hines solo), or the old ragtime guitarists, or Bach, on his way to ...

I listen to jazz all the time — old and new, straight-ahead and avant ... a great trumpet player in his own right, said it best when I asked him about Louis. He had already insisted that ...

“Industrialized folk-music” is how William J. Shultz described jazz in the October 25, 1922, issue of The Nation. “It is at once the old and the new.” Traditional European folk ...