Nate Chinen

‘Holding Space’ will be the first release on Lizz Wright’s own label, Blues and Greens Records. WBGO is proud to premiere a short film by the same name, created under pandemic conditions.

A star alto saxophone soloist with the Stan Kenton Orchestra, Gabe Baltazar also made an outsize impact as one of the most celebrated jazz musicians ever to emerge from Hawaii, where he presided as a local hero.

Hear the first taste of some highly anticipated albums by drummers Makaya McCraven and Mark Guiliana, guitarist Julian Lage, and cornetist Kirk Knuffke — along with a recent solo drop by pianist Marta Warelis.

“What It Is” was recorded in Montreal on July 7, 1983.

Along with the all-star band formerly known as the Joshua Redman Quartet, this Take Five boasts two killer piano-and-drum duos, a tasty organ quartet, and a hermetic studio production.

A lot of great music is ahead this weekend at the Newport Jazz Festival, and WBGO can help get you there. Meanwhile, here are five acts to get excited about.

Have a first taste of Mal Waldron’s ‘Searching in Grenoble: The 1978 Solo Piano Concert,’ due out on Tompkins Square Records on Sept. 23.

Today BRIC announced the eighth annual BRIC JazzFest, which will take place Oct. 20-22, with a guest curation by trumpeter Maurice Brown.

As WBGO looks ahead to our 2023 trip to South Africa, here are five new tracks by South African jazz artists who are pushing the art form forward.

A rising star in the world of improvised music with her group FLY or DIE, branch died on Monday at her home in Brooklyn, N.Y.