- New Vienna (Live at Musikverein, 2016)
NEW ALBUM
New Vienna (Live at Musikverein, 2016)
Keith Jarrett
- The Book of Isaiah: Modern Jazz Ministry
NEW ALBUM
The Book of Isaiah: Modern Jazz Ministry
Isaiah J. Thompson
- Jazz Chill
UPDATED PLAYLIST
Jazz Chill
Apple Music Jazz
Relax and reflect with selections from the quieter side of jazz.
- ARTEMIS
- Butcher Brown
- Nduduzo Makhathini
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- Updated Playlist
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- Listen in Spatial Audio
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- Songs We’re Loving
- That tender, melancholy mood.
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Live)
- Keith Jarrett
- Borrowed Eyes
- Joshua Redman
- One Way Traffic (feat. Yazmin Lacey)
- Joe Armon-Jones
- Tomorrow Tomorrow (feat. Daniel Rossen)
- Brad Mehldau
- What Is It We Need? (feat. Alice Russell)
- Amanda Whiting
- Found A Light (Beale Street)
- BADBADNOTGOOD & V.C.R
- Better Be Quiet Now
- Brad Mehldau
- The Creator Has A Master Plan (feat. Tomoki Sanders)
- Tyreek McDole
- Embraceable You
- Giacomo Smith & Mozes Rosenberg
- The Weirdos
- Eric Scott Reed
- What We Are and What We Are Meant to Be
- GoGo Penguin
- Give Me The Simple Life
- Seth MacFarlane
- Chrysalis (feat. Lihi Haruvi, John Lockwood & Dor Herskovits)
- David Leach
- Walnut and Western
- Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda & Antonio Sánchez
- Love Comes Around
- Rachael & Vilray
- Avoid The Drones
- Alfa Mist
- Just Sayin'
- Ofri Nehemya
- Curtis Nowosad
- Matt Johnson
- Butcher Brown
- Vega Trails
- Isaiah J. Thompson
- Shai Maestro
- Emil Brandqvist Trio
- Chiquita Magic
- Apple Music Jazz
- The drummer-bandleader’s albums aim to expand our cultural knowledge.
- Apple Music Jazz
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- Frollen Music Library
- Mary Halvorson
- Joe Armon-Jones
- Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp
- Mindi Abair
- Bradley Williams
- Apple Music Jazz
- Apple Music
- Apple Music Jazz
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- Shai Maestro
- Gerald Clayton
- Sullivan Fortner
- Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Paul Motian
- Aaron Parks
- Randy Ingram, Drew Gress & Billy Hart
- Melody Gardot
- WILLOW
- Nicole Zuraitis
- Blake Aaron
- Paula Atherton
- Steve Cole
- David P Stevens
- Apple Music Jazz
- Soak in her soulful classics—and the greatness they inspired.
- Jazz's most iconic trumpeter is honoured, sampled and remixed.
- Apple Music Jazz
- Apple Music Jazz
- Apple Music Jazz
- A pioneering jazz musician's compositions—and what they inspired.
- New Playlist
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- Apple Music
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- Fabiano do Nascimento
- Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Paul Motian
- Michel Petrucciani, Gary Peacock & Roy Haynes
- Robert Glasper
Stations
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- Miles Davis
- John Coltrane
- Chet Baker
- Stan Getz & João Gilberto
- Nat "King" Cole
- Keith Jarrett
- The Tony Williams Lifetime
- Cassandra Wilson
- Bill Evans & Jim Hall
- Herbie Hancock
- Herbie Hancock
- Miles Davis
About
Forged in the multicultural melting pot of early 20th-century New Orleans—a place where the blues of Deep South collided with European classical music and Caribbean rhythms—jazz began as a fundamentally African American expression and became America’s indigenous music. The music grew up in speakeasies and brothels, where singular geniuses like Louis Armstrong displayed a new improvisatory language, and it was transported to ballrooms and dancefloors with the sophisticated compositions and arrangements of Duke Ellington and Fletcher Henderson. The music was refined and popularised in the ‘30s as the swinging sounds of Benny Goodman and Count Basie entertained dancing masses in ballrooms and on the radio. At the same time, tunes from popular songwriters like George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin were reimagined by vocalists like Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. Early jazz styles spoke with regional accents—particularly in hotbeds like Harlem, Kansas City and Chicago—but as time passed, the language emerged in France, Japan, Brazil and beyond. This constantly evolving diaspora—connecting people, cities and countries across the globe—fuels the genre’s unique energy. The ‘40s and ‘50s saw jazz take some of its most ambitious artistic leaps, placing improvisation and free expression at its centre. Smaller ensembles became nimble vehicles for fearless solos from the likes of bebop pioneer and alto saxophonist Charlie “Bird” Parker, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and pianist Bud Powell. While Dave Brubeck became a sensation on college campuses in the ‘50s, Miles Davis’ mid-century trajectory—from his cool-jazz landmark Kind of Blue to the rock fusion of Bitches Brew—encapsulated many of the changes happening within the music for the next 30 years. The restless experimentation of Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane in the ‘60s took jazz to new artistic heights and challenged audiences as it never had before. Straight-ahead jazz reemerged in the ‘80s thanks to traditionalists like Wynton Marsalis and others, while the genre mingled with ‘70s R&B-flavoured pop to create smooth jazz. Broadly appealing singers like Diana Krall and Harry Connick, Jr. kept the repertoire of standards alive at the end of the century, while other artists embraced a newly ascendent art form: hip-hop. Jazz in the new millennium continues to do what it has always done, by reflecting the complexity of our times in the work of musicians who know their history but aren’t bound by it.