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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We're pretty obsessive fans here at NPR Music. We make lists. And because the Internet periodically demands these sorts of things, we've put together a multi-genre listening list of our favorite ...

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 ...

Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, Brooklyn Babylon (New Amsterdam Records ... the best start.) 5. Dave Douglas, Time Travel (Greenleaf Music). Dave Douglas is the most inventive jazz trumpeter ...

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.