and the way their sleeve designs imitated famous jazz album covers — it’s done out of love, not mockery. I recently saw a pretty amazing movie that made that earnestness into its crowning virtue.

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

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“Take Five” has stayed a standard, a tune you might hear on TV or on the radio, a signifier of smooth and ... arguably the ...

If you watched Samara Joy take home the Best New Artist Grammy this past weekend ... and asked each to pick their most romantic jazz album for Valentine's Day. The choices were, as you would ...

Chuck Mangione is an American flugelhorn player, trumpeter, and composer, best known ... This album featured the title track, ...

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 ...