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 ...

Photoshop tutorial showing how to design and create a vintage, jazz record album cover made famous by record companies such ...

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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 ...

But, the Jazz are not guaranteed the No. 1 pick. The best they could do this season was ensure best odds and get the worst record so they could go into the offseason knowing that they will get a ...

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 ...

But in a small, dark club on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, jazz legends were playing the best music you’ve never ... less interest in putting it on record. John Coltrane’s death in July ...

Other than calling out some excellent records, it seemed impossible to assess “the state of jazz,” so I asked a bunch of artists, all of whom put out music of their own in 2023, to share their ...

It might change shape, sound, or appearance, but we all know one thing’s always true about jazz ... of Xanadu Records, a renowned ’70s jazz label run by one-time Prestige house producer ...

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 ...

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.