Jack Kerouac has many passages where he writes about the music and drops the names: Dexter Gordon, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker. He helped make bebop the soundtrack to what we call the Beat Generation. Listen to an “On the Road” playlist.

AI and jazz are ever-changing. Jazz happens, AI generates, lawsuits are filed, settlements are made. New music and products come out on seemingly a daily basis. It’s very hard to be completely up to date. It makes your head explode.

The Boise Jazz Society brought Anat Cohen and Linda May Han Oh to Boise last season, and they were top vote-getters in the 74th annual DownBeat magazine Critics Poll. Other BJS artists also did well.

Which local Boise radio stations have jazz programs? Find out here, and what time the jazz programs air.

The 2026 Jazz Journalist Award winners have been announced, and past and future Boise Jazz Society artists are well represented.