Songs by the late Burt Bacharach worked neatly as instrumental covers, especially when jazz artists were compelled by labels to record with-it albums of contemporary hits in the 1960s and '70s. Like ...

Chrissie Hynde has announced a new album called Valve Bone Woe. The LP, featuring a variety of jazz-influenced cover songs, is due on Sept. 6. Hynde admitted she was “not hugely interested in ...

*Garry Percell, the Billboard-charting smooth jazz guitarist, has released his official music video for “Love Ballad” as of ...

The relative demise of vinyl and the onslaught of mp3’s and digidownloads have pretty much wiped out the pleasurable gestalt of seeing a great album cover. Many books have been devoted to classic rock ...

Covers is a quartet date in which New York-based tenor saxophonist Lucas Pino "covers" half a dozen generally pleasing songs written by his contemporaries, alongside one each by Charlie Parker ...

Jazz is more than sound—it’s a style, a mood, and a visual story. Canva and AI tools give musicians the ability to create album covers, posters, and social media designs that reflect their music’s ...

While the Allman Brothers successfully recorded fresh arrangements of blues standards such as “Statesboro Blues,” “One Way Out” and “Trouble No More,” it’s doubtful the band would’ve rocketed to ...

Pete Turner’s vibrant colors and surrealist compositions have graced the pages of magazines, including Esquire, Look, and Sports Illustrated. However, his work may be most recognizable to a different ...

Marsalis leads a take on Keith Jarrett’s 1974 LP “Belonging,” and Lehman interprets “The Music of Anthony Braxton,” revealing fresh lessons. By Hank Shteamer Great jazz composers are legion. But the ...

Ariana Grande has had a pretty rough 2019, huh? And it's all thanks to "7 Rings," a song she's gotten a pretty sour critical reception over for a host of reasons. Some of them are related to the song ...