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 ...

Sometimes it seems there are only about a dozen people listening to jazz and other kinds of creative improvised music. The community can feel small and insular. The music doesn’t deliver the sugar ...

For anyone in the habit of touting jazz as a living art form, it can feel both nourishing and a little perilous to stand in awe at the wonders of the past. It's especially tricky in a year when some ...

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If you want to discover how people feel about the way the world is going, don’t look to language to tell you, not to articles like this one, or even those of the most informed and articulate. I’ve run ...

Happy Jazz Appreciation Month, a fitting time for music critics to name their pick for the greatest jazz song of all time. Music publisher Primary Wave is sharing its take on the genre's greatest song ...

Here are my entries (and a taste of their music) for the 19th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll for the best jazz recordings and archival/reissues of 2024. The full results from all 177 writers ...

It didn’t take long after its release on August 17, 1959, for Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue to ascend to a throne it has yet to vacate in all of the decades that have followed. With its scepter, came a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After much consternation, I’ve managed to pare down a long list of fine jazz-improv recordings from 2025 to a top 10. So, apologies to Marshall Allen, The ...