When recordings like Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' seemingly falls from yonder jazz sky, we must stop to thank those swinging stars above for our grand fortune. Because despite all our flaws—a ...

Blue Note unearths historic recordings from jazz giants McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson and we feature new music from Sara Serpa and Bryan Lynch.

When the magazine began covering jazz in the 1920s, it often struggled to catch the beat. Ethan Iverson writes in this issue about a newly surfaced recording of pianist McCoy Tyner and saxophonist Joe ...

A new jazz style emerged in the late 1960s that wasn't an extension of hard bop or free jazz. For a brief period—following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968 and the onset of ...

This time we have a mixed bag of new releases features a variety of line-ups and includes some newly discovered live music from Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Jack DeJohnette, and Henry Grimes. In this ...

McCoy Tyner, a cornerstone of John Coltrane’s groundbreaking 1960s quartet and one of the most influential pianists in jazz history, died Friday at his home in northern New Jersey. He was 81. McCoy ...