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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...