In March, around the same time that Norah Jones was scooping up an armload of Grammys for her polished pop-cum-jazz debut, Atlantic Monthly ran a lengthy obituary bemoaning the death of jazz. The once ...

If you could use a bit of a boost today, we’d like to recommend this just uploaded live recording of jazz great Pharoah Sanders. The recording appears to be a French radio broadcast from November 17, ...

The saxophonist Pharoah Sanders was often described as an enigma of jazz, once famously characterized as "a mad wind screeching through the root-cellars of Hell." That "mad wind" is absent on Love Is ...