For a looser, more comprehensive A-Z list of jazz standards and tunes which have been covered by multiple artists, see the List of jazz tunes. Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids. Every time you ...

What are the best jazz songs ever? That’s an almost impossible question, but the below list can serve as a great starting point for any curious jazz fan. Whether it’s swing, hot, cool ...

No matter how modern or abstract or unclassifiable jazz can get in the 21st century ... Charlie Parker did to blues changes in relation to most standards of that era. It’s harmonically complex, moves ...

Billie Holiday was peerless when it came to conveying the emotion in a song In the 1940s, the swing era gave way to what was then known as “modern jazz” – the so-called bebop innovations of ...

his latest album sees him delve further back into recorded music’s archives to create his own inimitable reinterpretations of some of the 20th century’s greatest vocal jazz standards.

If you think about it a certain way, one of the defining qualities of jazz is earnestness ... So here’s the thing about the year-end list: I thought about what it would take to grind down ...