The 100 Best Albums of 2024: ... before diving into R&B-infused tracks and finally landing on jazz-inflected songs filled with funky percussive rhythms like “Gualero REFF12.31.” ...

Pop brilliance, indie phenomena, jazz rap treasures, and cross-genre experiments define Paste's picks for the best albums of the 2020s so far.

86! 85! 100! No, those aren’t the cadenced numbers an NFL quarterback calls out just before the ball is hiked in a game.

Jazz has had a key role in some of the 21st-century’s best albums, like Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly. The last winner of the Mercury Prize was a jazz group, Ezra Collective ...

Four of 2024’s standout jazz albums came from saxophonists Immanuel Wilkins, 27, Charles McPherson, 85, Charles Lloyd, 86, and Marshall Allen, 100.