Callie Crossley: I leaned hard into ballads, specifically jazz ballads, for these playlist picks. So first up, we’ve got ...

With 12 years of saxophone experience and a Steinhardt Jazz Studies degree under his belt, 2025 graduate Connor Sobieri is no ...

Noah Preminger is a philosophical, thought-through artist who can gauge the impact of his playing and his thinking on his intended audience. It is interesting to compare Preminger's Ballads to John ...

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 ...