Jazz

On his brilliant new album the keyboardist and guitarist has set thousand-year-old poems in Hebrew, Arabic and the other languages of Andalusia to bubbling stews of traditional instrumentation with strains of jazz and swatches of the Western avant-garde.

Pianist and composer Dave Meder discusses his debut jazz album, 'Passage.'

The Hungarian bossa nova specialist's new album includes jazz, electronic, folk, and world music settings of poems by Verlaine, Garcia Lorca, T.S. Eliot and more.

A thrilling Latin jazz set from a veteran Brazilian pianist and a silky debut from a young jazz vocalist

Easy-flowing vocals and lyrics with literate depth fuel two recent recordings from distant regions of the music spectrum.

'Growing Upward' from Rupa and the April Fishes is an album of great music and powerful words - not something we're used to anymore, but something we need.

The early music group illuminated the consonances between jazz and baroque music and had a good deal of fun doing it.

Great musicians often speak to us most sincerely when they put genre aside and write and play what's in their own distinctive hearts.

This memorable set from Dizzy Gillespie's longtime drummer is one of the best small-group jazz albums of recent vintage, full of rhythmic play and meaty assertiveness with a Latin lilt.

'Una Noche con Ruben Blades' is superb. If you’re into stellar music, fluent and elegant, then this is the album you’ve been seeking.