Chicago has never been known as a major recording capital. But lack of tradition hasn’t stopped Neale Parker and Ken Kistner from going forward with Lake Shore Jazz, a new label intended to spotlight ...

With the launch of its new record label, Smalls Live, Smalls Jazz Club throws open its doors, inviting a worldwide audience into the intimate confines of the Greenwich Village club. Since it opened in ...

Within the annals of endless discussions about jazz, there has never been a lack of debate or self-questioning over the very nature of this Great American Music. On the list of possibly unanswerable ...

Few in music are as successfully eclectic as Don Was, a bassist, producer, bandleader and record label president.

MAKING MAHAKALA: Since 2019, Chad Fowler has been quietly releasing albums from jazz luminaries on his Hot Springs Village-based label. Credit: Brian Chilson The gated community of Hot Springs Village ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... There are a handful of independent record labels doing a better job of showcasing the cutting edge in jazz than the majors. The fearless Pi Recordings comes ...

On an uncharacteristically rainy day in March, Orange County native Yousef Hilmy, founder and creative director of Minaret Records, stood outside the glass door of a nondescript venue in Mid-City. He ...

There’s one thing that jazz vibraphonist Joel Ross and his fellow Blue Note Record artists love about the legendary jazz label. It’s not stuck in the past. As music has shifted and convulsed over the ...

Portugal's capital is normally associated with the melancholic fado music, but a new Portuguese jazz label is making a name for itself around the world with an adventurous approach to producing modern ...

Possibly the most prolific archival record producer in history, he was a founder of the Mosaic label, which became the gold standard of jazz reissues. By Giovanni Russonello Michael Cuscuna, who ...

Internationally acclaimed saxophonist Charles McPherson is not the first jazz great to launch his own record label, perform a livestreamed concert or teach music classes online. But he is surely the ...

Norman Lear, the legendary TV producer and devoted advocate of liberal causes, will be best remembered for revolutionizing mainstream TV in the 1960s and ’70s with such hit shows as “All in the Family ...