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 ...

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 ...

Many of the rapper’s album covers have been inspired by what their parents listened to during their childhood. Many of the covers interpolate popular jazz or R&B albums from the ‘70s and ‘80s.

Here are my picks for the year’s 10 best new jazz albums—a diverse lot (though ... It’s a mix of originals and covers (none of them, strictly speaking, jazz songs) that amounts to a suite ...

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.