The Essential Jazz Albums of 2024 This year's unmissable jazz releases came in two flavors: breakthrough releases by driven young newcomers, and a heap of unearthed treasures from the vault.

Best Jazz Albums of 2024. Musicians both established and up-and-coming stretched themselves in fresh ways over the last year, creating poignant moments of collaboration and challenge.

The Best Jazz Albums Of 2024. 2024 In Review December 16, 2024 3:00 PM By Phil Freeman. If you think about it a certain way, one of the defining qualities of jazz is earnestness. This is ...

Four of 2024's standout jazz albums came from saxophonists Immanuel Wilkins, 27, Charles McPherson, 85, Charles Lloyd, 86, and Marshall Allen, 100. Skip to content. All Sections.

The 10 Best Jazz Albums Of 2023. 2023 In Review December 13, 2023 12:23 PM By Phil Freeman. 2023 has been a transitional year for jazz. We lost ...

After sharing my list of 50 essential jazz albums, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the process. In this follow-up video, I talk about how I made the selections, which albums were tough to ...

Angel Song Kenny Wheeler ECM 1996 If ever a jazz album was aptly named, Kenny Wheeler 's Angel Song lives up to the imagery it conjures. Rare amongst jazz albums, it's a drummerless quartet with ...

*For the first time in the band’s history, The Best of Sade has climbed to No. 1 on Billboard’s Jazz Albums chart, marking a ...

What ties the albums together on our ninth installment of 72 Jazz Thrillers is the depth of emotion. Two joyous albums are followed by troubles, grace, exultation and deep sadness—albums from one of ...

It still houses over 2,500 vinyl jazz albums that the longtime hosts couldn’t bear to part with, artifacts that tell the station’s history and of American music.

The Southern University Jazz Ensemble is gearing up for the release of two albums created under the guidance of the esteemed Alvin Batiste, who passed away in 2007 during that year’s Jazz Fest. The ...

Best Jazz Albums of 2023. ... Big Band Jazz: Big bands were built in the 1920s and ’30s to blast dancers with layers of rhythm, but creative composers are keeping the form alive.