- Pure Jazz
PLAYLIST TAKEOVER
Pure Jazz
Apple Music Jazz
A Robert Glasper-approved selection of tracks fundamental to the art form. - Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
NEW ALBUM
Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
Shabaka
- Jazz Chill
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Jazz Chill
Apple Music Jazz
Relax and reflect with selections from the quieter side of jazz.
- Christian McBride & Edgar Meyer
- Bill Frisell
- Norah Jones
- Julian Lage
- Melissa Aldana
- The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis
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- That tender, melancholy mood.
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- Playlist We Like
- Updated Playlist
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- Recommended Playlist
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- Listen in Spatial Audio
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- MoonDial
- Pat Metheny
- Ritual
- Melissa Aldana
- Tennessee Blues
- Christian McBride & Edgar Meyer
- Black Sand
- Glass Beams
- Kintsugi
- Ill Considered
- Prologue
- Kamasi Washington
- Inside and Out
- Cyrille Aimée
- Strange Meeting (feat. Manuele Morbidini, Rudy Royston, Thomas Morgan & Umbria Jazz Orchestra) [Live/Umbria Jazz Orchestra]
- Bill Frisell
- L'Orso
- The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis
- Dream State
- Kamasi Washington & André 3000
- Knowingness
- Jasmine Myra
- Fugue No. 20 in A Minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, BWV 865
- Brad Mehldau
- Insecurities (feat. Moses Sumney)
- Shabaka
- Linger In My Arms a Little Longer Baby
- Cory Weeds & Champian Fulton
- Beautiful Day (Instrumental Version)
- Keyon Harrold
- Snowcap
- Fergus McCreadie
- Planet Nine
- José James
- Norah Jones
- Christian McBride & Edgar Meyer
- Julian Lage
- Bill Frisell
- Blue Lab Beats
- Fred Hersch
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- Apple Music R&B
- Apple Music Christmas
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- The hip sound that modernized jazz in the ‘40s.
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- Fred Hersch
- Sullivan Fortner
- Micah Thomas
- Nitai Hershkovits
- Updated Playlist
- Joey Alexander
- Apple Music Jazz
- Lizz Wright
- Samara Joy
- Nicole Zuraitis
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- Meshell Ndegeocello
- Stacey Kent
- Sarah McKenzie
- Blake Aaron
- Paula Atherton
- Kenny G
- Steve Cole
- David P Stevens
- Justin-Lee Schultz
- Songs We’re Loving
- Apple Music Hip-Hop/Rap
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- Soak in the soulful originals next to their proud descendants.
- Apple Music Hip-Hop/Rap
- Explore the influence of this iconic artist.
- Apple Music Hip-Hop/Rap
- Apple Music Jazz
- Playlist We Like
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- Playlist We Like
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- Bill Frisell
- Gilad Hekselman
- Alice Coltrane
- Wes Montgomery
- The Dave Brubeck Quartet
- Oscar Peterson
Stations
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- Bill Evans & Jim Hall
- Miles Davis
- Chet Baker
- George Benson
- Oscar Peterson Trio
- Stan Getz & João Gilberto
- Diana Krall
- Herbie Hancock
- Oscar Peterson
- Robert Glasper Experiment
- Keith Jarrett
- Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane
- John Coltrane
- Brad Mehldau
- Brad Mehldau
- WILLOW
- Kamasi Washington
- Nubiyan Twist
- Pat Metheny
- Jasmine Myra
- Edition of Contemporary Music.
About
Forged in the multicultural melting pot of early 20th-century New Orleans—a place where the blues of Deep South collided with European classical music and Caribbean rhythms—jazz began as a fundamentally African American expression and became America’s indigenous music. The music grew up in speakeasies and brothels, where singular geniuses like Louis Armstrong displayed a new improvisatory language, and it was transported to ballrooms and dancefloors with the sophisticated compositions and arrangements of Duke Ellington and Fletcher Henderson. The music was refined and popularised in the ‘30s as the swinging sounds of Benny Goodman and Count Basie entertained dancing masses in ballrooms and on the radio. At the same time, tunes from popular songwriters like George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin were reimagined by vocalists like Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. Early jazz styles spoke with regional accents—particularly in hotbeds like Harlem, Kansas City and Chicago—but as time passed, the language emerged in France, Japan, Brazil and beyond. This constantly evolving diaspora—connecting people, cities and countries across the globe—fuels the genre’s unique energy. The ‘40s and ‘50s saw jazz take some of its most ambitious artistic leaps, placing improvisation and free expression at its centre. Smaller ensembles became nimble vehicles for fearless solos from the likes of bebop pioneer and alto saxophonist Charlie “Bird” Parker, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and pianist Bud Powell. While Dave Brubeck became a sensation on college campuses in the ‘50s, Miles Davis’ mid-century trajectory—from his cool-jazz landmark Kind of Blue to the rock fusion of Bitches Brew—encapsulated many of the changes happening within the music for the next 30 years. The restless experimentation of Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane in the ‘60s took jazz to new artistic heights and challenged audiences as it never had before. Straight-ahead jazz reemerged in the ‘80s thanks to traditionalists like Wynton Marsalis and others, while the genre mingled with ‘70s R&B-flavoured pop to create smooth jazz. Broadly appealing singers like Diana Krall and Harry Connick, Jr. kept the repertoire of standards alive at the end of the century, while other artists embraced a newly ascendent art form: hip-hop. Jazz in the new millennium continues to do what it has always done, by reflecting the complexity of our times in the work of musicians who know their history but aren’t bound by it.