Founded in 1988, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) with Wynton Marsalis tours the world performing a vast ...

Japan's love affair with jazz is an old one. A unique one. It is home to hundreds of jazz-listening bars and cafés, places where chatting is at best frowned upon, and even forbidden between certain ...

“Japanese-influenced listening bars” may be the latest, greatest trend in US bar culture, but their high-end sound systems and even more highfalutin aesthetic draw from a much more humble practice: ...

This month Eric Pye toured 6 Jazz Kissas across Tokyo, Japan. Find out what they’re all about. When I visit Japan I have two main goals, besides visiting with friends and family. I lived here for over ...

Could you imagine coffee shops in any North American or European city that played jazz non-stop all day, or bars where, variously, as you quenched your thirst, you heard only Blue Note Records, ...