Jazz

Get out your dancing shoes, hot jazz is back!

With a powerful vocal style and unforgettable performances spanning four decades, Natalie Cole conveyed life's joys and pains across genres.

While the sound may not be quite up to modern standards, the music is fine.

Count Basie and Duke Ellington, both phenomenal pianists, composers and bandleaders were fierce competitors. But not at the recording studio or concert hall.

Highlights in popular music from 2015. Includes records by Lianne La Havas, Mika, Carly Rae Jepsen, Hot Chip, Seal, Janet Jackson and many more!

Irakere was a band with a big sound, a sound captured once more in this tribute.

Forget about this being the best Weather Report lineup, 'The Legendary Live Tapes 1978 - 1981' presents one of the greatest jazz groups of all time.

Two recent albums that do new things with very old music.

2015 is a good year for Art Pepper fans.

The album is an intelligent mix of standards and original material.