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.

Blue Note Records has embodied the best jazz has to offer for over 80 years ... snapping photos of the artists as they performed or kicked back between takes. Cover-designer Reid Miles was the man who ...

But on the trio’s quietly stunning third album, a series of extended and reimagined covers ... Jazz Guitar: The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz, but the best guitarists ...

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who became the artistic director of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz at U.C.L.A., left his longtime home on Blue Note Records and released a pair of spellbinding albums. (The other is ...

and the way their sleeve designs imitated famous jazz album covers — it’s done out of love, not mockery. I recently saw a pretty amazing movie that made that earnestness into its crowning virtue.

As I’ve said in a few recent editions of these best-of columns ... Here are my favorite savage-soothers among jazz albums—10 new and three historical releases (two of them previously ...

The 10 best jazz albums of 2023, according to my own idiosyncratic calculus, capture something of that spark, too. But just as importantly, these are recordings that I kept within easy reach ...