If an artist stamps his jazz passport with any one of these labels—Blue Note, Verve, Milestone—it's pretty much a guarantee that you've arrived in style. Tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson has traveled ...

Blue Note's series of reissues remastered by the legendary recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder continues to come hot and heavy, although how they choose which titles to include is something of a puzzle ...

Jazz was born in America, and helped create a new America. An upstart art, this revolutionary music didn’t come from old European capitals but from Southern cities and Northern slums. A hot, hip ...