Universal Music Debuts ‘Everything Jazz’ Digital Platform & Store

Everything Jazz VP Tina Poyser. Photo Credit: UMG

Universal Music Group’s betting big on jazz with a slate of reissues as well as the official debut of an Everything Jazz digital platform and online store.

Specifically part of the major’s Global Classics & Jazz division, the newly expanded Everything Jazz counts longtime Universal Music higher-up Tina Poyser as its vice president.

Developed “in partnership” with UMG subsidiaries including Blue Note, Verve, and Impulse!, Everything Jazz now features a webstore offering physical releases and merch from new talent and “cultural icons” alike.

Those products include a vinyl edition of Miles Davis’ Birth of the Cool compilation (which ships with a studio-session lithograph print of the jazz mainstay – “only available at Everything Jazz”) and a cassette version of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme (which “returns to cassette for the first time in 40 years”), to name a couple.

Then there’s a collection of signed albums from contemporary professionals, a selection of exclusive merch-vinyl bundles, an “exclusives and coloured vinyl” section, a Verve Vault hub, and – well, you get the idea.

Back to the initially mentioned reissues, following the early 2025 rollout of the Verve Record Club “bespoke vinyl subscription for jazz enthusiasts,” the namesake label group today unveiled a well-populated Verve Vault release schedule covering the remainder of 2026.

Without rattling off each of these planned “definitive, all-analog 180-gram vinyl pressings” here, May is expected to bring Marcos Valle’s Samba ’68, with Cal Tjader’s The Prophet teed up for June, The Individualism of Gil Evans confirmed as one of three July reissues, and George Benson’s Giblet Gravy poised to become available in August.

Shifting from the online store to the “digital platform” side, Everything Jazz also houses (Re)Discover Jazz, billed as a free 20-lesson “online course in jazz music and culture.”

Unsurprisingly, said course isn’t subtle about encouraging learners to purchase a product or three. But overall, there appears to be a good bit of worthwhile information in and depth to the resource.

Enter the “trusted editorial” component of Everything Jazz. Though it didn’t take very long for Warner Music to offload Uproxx, HipHopDX, and Dime Magazine under CEO Robert Kyncl, UMG’s evidently employing a different approach by equipping Everything Jazz with “a dedicated team of curators, writers, editors, and producers.”

That team’s conducting interviews, penning articles (“Jazz and India,” “The Making of Miles Davis’ Birth of the Cool,” etc.), and more. Additionally, Everything Jazz is partnering with various jazz festivals and events.

“The response to Everything Jazz from both fans and artists shows how vital jazz is today, as both a growing, global movement and through thriving local scenes around the world,” VP Tina Poyser added.

“The future of jazz is deeply entwined with its fascinating history and diverse recorded legacy, and the expansion of Everything Jazz reflects both the depth of the catalogue and fans’ enduring passion for quality and excellence,” she concluded.