2024 brought forth a wealth of Chicago music spanning all genres. As we look back, a few local projects stood out this year — ...

Putting the emphasis on the offbeats (two and four of the bar) the next generation of jazzers came together in small ensembles known as Dixieland or trad jazz groups, and just played. Many of these ...

Although regarded as being one of the greatest jazz musicians, composers and bandleaders ever, Miles Davis was so much more ...

Listen to the best jazz Christmas songs on Spotify ... It doesn’t quite rock like “Run Rudolph Run,” but it’s not background music either, which makes it perfect for a music connoisseur ...

Eddie Van Halen was one of the finest guitarists of his generation. However, one classic rock 'n' roll band before him ...

Listen to the best Christmas rock songs on Spotify ... including by crooner Bing Crosby and jazz star Kenny Burrell, but one of the most heartfelt and affecting is by Bob Seger and the Silver ...

I spoke to Thurston Moore about his new album, his love of jazz and the time Sonic Youth were supposed to meet The Grateful ...

Gene Simmons singing jazz for a Dennis Quaid movie about Ronald Reagan might sound like a 1980s fever dream, but it's 100% ...

The HBO doc “Yacht Rock” examines the genre of soft rock that topped the charts between 1976 and 1984 from Michael McDonald ...

A Dockumentary," now out on Max, explores the sub genre of jazz and R&B-inflected 1970s and early 1980s rock that was named decades after the fact.

Today we revisit John Martyn’s dazzling 1973 album, an astral-folk masterpiece that embodies the British songwriter’s ...

Wirth no fewer than three Christmas releases to his credit, he’ll have lots of songs to choose from for ... Vaus Richie Furay was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for his work ...