It’s been a good year for jazz, diverse in every way—styles, influences, tastes, and demographics too. I didn’t aim the list to turn out this way, but four of the albums’ leaders are women, and five ...

No, those aren’t the cadenced numbers an NFL quarterback calls out just before the ball is hiked in a game. Rather, they are the ages of three storied jazz saxophonists — Charles Lloyd, Charles ...

Assessing the best jazz albums of any current year could be a tricky affair. The tricky part lies in the term current, as during any given year there is a slew of reissued jazz albums that can ...

The End-of-the-Year lists are upon us once again, and there were some special albums that spun in just-walking-the-dog heavy rotation. Specifically, when plugged into a trusty Walkman, it is the noise ...

Following up on 2024's outstanding Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic), vibraphonist Brennan shows no signs of slowing down on Of the Near and Far, an enigmatic and gripping release which highlights ...

SAN DIEGO -- Rising young talents and revered veterans helped take jazz to a multitude of exciting new destinations in 2025. But the most notable debut album of the year, the aptly titled "New Dawn," ...

If you think about it a certain way, one of the defining qualities of jazz is earnestness. This is one of the reasons why jazz and metal have so much in common, and so often appeal to the same ...

So... what kind of a year was 2025 for jazz? Well, it marked the centennial of saxophonist Gene Ammons, drummer Roy Haynes, critic Nat Hentoff, pianist Jutta Hipp ...

Sade reaches a new milestone as The Best of Sade climbs into the top 10 on Billboard's Top R&B Albums chart for the first ...

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Time magazine names ‘Architects of AI’ as its person of the year for 2025 Google’s most-searched pop culture terms of 2025, explained No, those aren’t the cadenced numbers an NFL quarterback calls out ...