How much are last-minute New Orleans Jazz Festival tickets? How to buy now

How much are last-minute New Orleans Jazz Festival tickets? How to buy now

Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Nothing says spring quite like jazz in the […]

Bongeziwe Mabandla: amaXesha review – South African singer in his own lane | Music

Bongeziwe Mabandla: amaXesha album artwork

Over the past decade, South African singer-songwriter Bongeziwe Mabandla has been reimagining Xhosa folk music. His 2012 debut album, Umlilo, was a largely acoustic effort, combining the genre’s yearning choral harmonies with finger-strumming guitar and […]

‘A true genius’: Denniz Pop, the late Scandi-pop architect behind Max Martin, Robyn and NSync | Pop and rock

Dag Volle, before he became Denniz Pop, DJing at the Ritz in Stockholm.

In producer Denniz Pop’s old studio in Stockholm, above the mugs of coffee and overflowing ashtrays, sat a cherry red light that he would trigger when he knew he had made a hit. In the […]

Daze Between New Orleans Announces Official Schedule Featuring Goose, David Shaw, George Porter Jr. and More

Daze Between New Orleans Announces Official Schedule Featuring Goose, David Shaw, George Porter Jr. and More

Daze Between New Orleans has outlined its official schedule for the Tuesday, May 2 through Wednesday, May 3 gathering, set to take place at The Big Easy’s historic Faubourg Brewery during the days between New […]

Chet Baker: Blue Room review – gorgeous unreleased sessions by maestro of drowsy jazz | Music

Blue Room by Chet Baker album cover

In 1988, the Vogue photographer and occasional film-maker Bruce Weber made Let’s Get Lost, a lingeringly homoerotic but revealing documentary homage to “the white Miles”, jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. Like Clint Eastwood’s Charlie Parker biopic […]

Harry Belafonte, singer, actor and tireless activist, dies aged 96 | Music

A lifetime of activism … Belafonte with Martin Luther King Jr.

Harry Belafonte, the singer, actor and civil rights activist who broke down racial barriers, has died aged 96. As well as performing global hits such as Day-O (The Banana Boat Song), winning a Tony award […]

‘The film industry is gone. It sucks’: Jim Jarmusch on swapping directing for drone rock | Jim Jarmusch

Carter Logan and Jim Jarmusch

There are few film-makers quite as particular about music as Jim Jarmusch. Over the years, he’s enlisted Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA to score his hitman-meets-samurai flick Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, had Tom Waits […]

‘We paved the way for the Rolling Stones’: Ottilie Patterson, the forgotten first lady of British blues | Blues

Ottilie Patterson (left) and Sister Rosetta Tharpe rehearsing at the Marquee Club, London in 1960.

The late British jazz singer George Melly used to ask his audiences: “Who is the greatest blues vocalist Britain has ever produced?” He’d tease them, asking, “Mick Jagger? No! Steve Winwood? No! Van Morrison? No!”, […]