Individually or collectively, you will find these discs the foundation of an estimable jazz library. With their cover graphics and CD booklet design uniformly simple, and perhaps, unadorned to a fault ...

In the 1950s, musicians who could play jazz, blues and R&B ... launched an extensive Prestige Records cover art gallery of over 100 classic album covers from the Prestige catalog on their Facebook ...

Last year guitarist Mary Halvorson released one of her best albums, a peculiar solo recording of jazz standards and cover ... she’s dropped an even better record that showcases her continuously ...

The Best Jazz Record Of 2009 (So Far) : All Songs Considered There was a time when new jazz records would take my breath away. Give me a new World Saxophone Quartet record or an Art Ensemble of ...

Other jazz records: John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio (Prestige). Tenor Saxophonist ... The End of a Love Affair). Among his best: a gusty frolic called Lee-Antics, which rings its intricate ...

I was invited by Tom Hull to participate in the Francis Davis Jazz Critics mid-year poll for 2024. Here are my favorite recordings for the year to date, both new releases and reissues/archival albums.

He’s genuinely talented and hard-working, but he doesn’t know much about jazz beyond what he’s heard on records, and he doesn’t really know how to make music with other people. So when he ...

Jazz is two things at once: it’s the oldest kind of pop music, and the youngest kind of “trad” music, alongside things like classical and opera. The best jazz albums, therefore, often sound ...