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 ...

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 ...

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

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% ...

This year’s array of new CD box sets includes such massive offerings as Bob Dylan and The Band’s “The 1974 Live Recordings,” ...

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.

The song's titular protagonist knows he "won't ... "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant," a sweeping jazz-rock pocket symphony about doomed lovers Brenda and Eddie, is his masterpiece, and ...