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 ...

The best jazz albums, therefore, often sound old and young at once – a bit like the past and a bit like the present. The genre’s highpoint in the early and mid 20th century also coincided with ...

This week it’s time for the Best Jazz Albums of 2023, or maybe more precisely, the jazz albums I enjoyed the most and played the most over the last 12 months. Counter to some of the trends in ...

Some of the artists below wouldn’t call the music they make jazz at all. Maybe we don’t need to either. Let’s just call these albums what they were, each in their own way: breakthroughs ...

Instead, I've put together jazz's greatest Christmas albums from the golden age to today. Whether you're dusting an eggnog with nutmeg and settling in for a quiet evening by the fire, or frantically ...

This shouldn't be seen as a tally of the year's best jazz albums, though a few of them would make such a list; instead, it's meant as a guide to standout offerings from old masters and new faces ...

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 ...

The best jazz albums of the year feel supercharged with the spirit of discovery, but also offer revelations — both comforting and challenging... Wayne Shorter, one of a few musical sages who ...