Sam Amidon will release his new album Salt River on January 24 via River Lea, which is a division of Rough Trade. The album was produced by Sam Gendel who also plays on it, with percussionist Philippe ...

THE image on the screen is a village street in Nigeria. Brightly dressed people are clustered in a circle playing drums, giant calabashes, double-reed horns, and a sort of violin with horsehair ...

Listen to favorite songs by an adventurous musician who pushed the boundaries of jazz, selected by writers and musicians including Nailah Hunter, Kieran Hebden and the artist’s son Eagle-Eye Cherry.

Jazz musician Ornette Coleman played many of his early shows with the Pee Wee Crayton band in Los Angeles during the 1950s.

NEW YORK -- Jazz legend Ornette Coleman, the visionary saxophonist who pioneered "free jazz" and won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007, has died. Publicist Ken Weinstein says Coleman died on Thursday at 1 a.m.

Innovative jazz saxophone player and composer Ornette Coleman has died in New York at the age of 85. A native of Fort Worth, Texas, Coleman’s journey took him through Louisiana both physically and ...