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 ...

A look into what jazz means in the modern day via its best selling albums, from Norah Jones to Miles Davis and his album 'Kind of Blue'.

Annahstasia enters the chat. The Cure reimagines a lost world. Mary Halvorson demonstrates why she's a MacArthur genius. WRTI ...

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 ...

Here, then, are for me the 10 best new jazz recordings of 2024 ... maybe the most original, and this album is a wonder. It celebrates the 50 th anniversary of his main group, Ethnic Heritage ...

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 ...