Here, then, are for me the 10 best new jazz recordings of 2024 ... and especially since 2021, when he signed with Blue Note. This is his second album with the label, and it can be said he ...

No, those aren’t the cadenced numbers an NFL quarterback calls out just before the ball is hiked in a game. Rather, they are ...

Another year of first-rate creative jazz is in the books, along with another impossible set of choices in assembling a top-10 list. These are some of ... Don't let the whimsical title fool you: this ...

That's our best bet now. I'm witnessing this, a refusal to be jaded or maudlin, in some of my favorite jazz albums and performances of 2021. Jamael Dean's Primordial Waters delivers us into the ...

Herein is a list of the 100 new albums we most loved in 2021, records that helped get us through another tough year. We fully acknowledge that we’re late to the best-of-2021 party. We had other ...

[Sputnik Music] Jazz ... of 2021, shifting 839,000 copies in the US and 261,000 in the UK. But raw numbers don't tell the whole story… this is Adele's best work since her breakthrough album ...

And the same is true of jazz. People will play the most ridiculous, over-the-top shit with a totally straight ... sleeve designs imitated famous jazz album covers — it’s done out of love ...

On a personal note, this is unlike any "best of the year" summaries I've written during ... Even though 2024 was a fairly solid year for jazz albums in general and big bands in particular, I submitted ...

Even if you aren’t actively seeking out jazz, it’s inescapable. It directly informs so much hip hop and electronic music, and we frequently hear it popping up in punk, metal, and indie rock too.