While jazz music has its roots in the African American communities of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, specifically in New Orleans, over a century later the genre has grown to a much more diverse and extensive, never-ending set of subgenres encompassing from ragtime to big band, bebop, cool jazz, nu jazz, jazztronica and many others including European and Asian varieties.

Jazz streaming is expected to see some significant trends in 2023 as the genre continues to evolve and adapt to new technologies. The medium per se is reaching out to new audiences, eager to see some technological and artistic innovation. Here are a few predictions for what we might see in the world of jazz streaming in the coming year.

So you’re a jazz music aficionado. You have your collection of classic vinyls. Perhaps even those old CDs. Or your Coltrane, Ella or Metheny playlists on Spotify. And when you travel, one of the first things you do is Google “live jazz clubs near me.” Surely, there will be plenty to choose from. Restaurants, bars, cafés or speakeasys featuring local or international talent that will fulfill your jazz needs. But which jazz clubs can deliver the proper live jazz experience for an aficionado like yourself?

The nature of virality of music has changed unrecognizably in the last decade, and more so in the last few years. Streaming of music changed how we promote it, buy it and consume it. And today, social media is even changing the way we find and interact with musicians as they provide more connectivity and a seemingly intimate window into artists’ worlds.

There are certain live jazz gigs that leave a mark in our lives. It may have been the inspired performance, the audience engagement, the atmosphere or a combination of various elements that simply seem like we saw them yesterday, even though they occurred decades ago. Here are ten performances we remember as timeless…

Who killed Jazz? Nobody. But that is the provocative title of Ben Makinen’s 22-minute documentary which deals with the questions and controversy around the business of jazz as opposed to the artistic genre itself.s with an idea.