The 10 best jazz albums of 2023, according to my own idiosyncratic ... With that ideal in mind, Jones composed music for an improvising string ensemble plus sax and drums, and incorporated new ...

Orrin Evans’s original “Red Door” appears on the trio Tarbaby’s latest album ... career. Jazz Guitar: The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz, but the best guitarists ...

Another year of first-rate creative jazz is ... that smaller ensembles provide. My favorites are listed here alphabetically, without ranking them, as all of them are exceptional. Don't let the ...

Rather, they are the ages of three storied jazz saxophonists — Charles Lloyd, Charles McPherson and Sun Ra Arkestra leader Marshall Allen — who each released standout albums this year.

There was a lot of exceptional new music released during 2023 and these were my favorite albums of the year. Some of them bent the music into fascinating new shapes and some made fresh and compelling ...

In the jazz up and comers of today the hallmarks of improvisation, musicality, humanity and depth are very much present. From Annahstasia to Aron!, here are seven new artists keeping the spirit of ...

With its scepter, came a title: Greatest Jazz Album of All Time ... is the stuff of smaller ensembles. Music you think about, rather than dance to. Davis was always a melodist, the same as ...

One of the works that will be performed is by Steven Feifke, who is co-music directing the concerts with Wynton Marsalis. Feifke won a Grammy in 2023 for best large jazz ensemble album.

Darcy James Argue has evolved into one of the era’s top big-band composers, second only to Maria Schneider, and this, his fourth album, is his best ... chamber ensemble rooted in jazz and ...