America is in a state of deep self-examination, from the Occupy Wall Street protests to the Penn State scandal, Stanley Crouch writes in his Daily News column.

Wynton Marsalis' Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra was in Cuba last week as part of a cultural exchange that continues over the next few weeks in the U.S. But have politics overshadowed the musical motivation?

Sometimes, marvelous music makes a mediocre movie seem better than it actually is.

The first family of jazz receives the nation's highest jazz honor.