All About Jazz

Gunhild Carling and her Jazz Band Joe Henderson Lab San Francisco, CA May 24, 2026

A legend has grown up around the music created for Louis Malle's debut film Lift to the Scaffold Ascenseur pour l'échafaud ). The story goes that Davis arrived at the Paris studio having never seen the film.

Instrumental funk/soul bands are often spurned by the jazz aficionados as less serious than "real" jazz bands, but that would be a mistake with How Now Brown Cow.

This episode pays tribute to Miles Davis on the 100th anniversary of his birth. Our tribute focuses on musicians who live with the repercussions of and were in dialogue with Miles and his work.

Virginia-based drummer Robert Jospe leads an able quartet on The Night Sky , the ninth recording under his name.

Jump into a time-traveling playlist that brings a spectacular 1984 recording by back to the future, at the end of a generations-bridging ride where

There is a received wisdom in jazz that goes unchallenged. The greatest female jazz vocalists are a fixed trio: , and . Critics repeat it.

Lacking recognizable features, yet constituting a genre of their own, John Constable's 1821-1822 cloud studies come up as an evocative metaphor for

Loads of new releases and Sonny Rollins answers the question, "Why was I Born?" Playlist Host Speaks 00:00

In New York City's crowded and competitive music scene, All About Jazz encountered in May (Tianyang) Yu, a violinist whose deep classical