The rhythms at Space Ballroom swung from rock to funk to dub to soul as two modern jazz bands — the Messthetics, comprised partly of former members of the now-legendary punk band Fugazi, and the New ...

Metheny even called Hall “the father of modern jazz guitar”. Jim’s harmonic awareness, rhythmic placement and dynamic sensitivity are what sets him apart.

By 1963, Bell was responding to the powerful currents of liberation sweeping through jazz and, as a result, seemingly bifurcating his musical energies—concentrating his classical-based ideas in ...

Roy Haynes. American jazz drummer and bandleader has died. Born in 1925 in Roxbury, Mass., he influenced generations of jazz drummers and helped change the direction of rhythmic improvisation.

This year two of the new categories acknowledge the boom in African music and in modern jazz. In a minute, we'll hear from NPR Music's Rodney Carmichael.