Here are my 10 top albums that made the last 12 months even more worthwhile, and they’ve held up to repeated listening, too: ...

And it seems that in 2025 there was not only an abundance of new jazz releases, but the quality bar was raised again, with ...

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 the ...

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 ...

From Miles Davis to Mahavishnu Orchestra, we run through the 15 greatest albums fusing jazz and rock into arresting new ...

The most exciting jazz reissue of the year has been Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy, a tape rescued from the forgotten bowels of the New York Public Library. It captures ...

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 ...

2023 has been a transitional year for jazz. We lost one of the genre's most brilliant composers and performers, Wayne Shorter; free jazz flamethrowers Peter Brötzmann and Charles Gayle; genteel ...