Its hard to categorize Halie Loren—for those who feel the need to do so—a singer/songwriter who started performing at age 10 in her native state of Alaska and now, from her home in Oregon, tours jazz ...

Reissues from Herbie Hancock's jazz-funk catalogue are always welcome, and few more so than Be With Records's vinyl-only edition of this long-neglected beauty. Recorded in Tokyo in 1979, it is ...

If you were looking to find jazz music’s latest renaissance, a good place to start would be the liner notes to Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy-award-winning 2015 album, To Pimp a Butterfly. In what was a ...

A bandage wrapping around a hand, a butterfly winging away from a shattered red sun, an eerie eye peering through a keyhole: these are three of the images with which Boston Lyric Opera teased its ...