The best jazz albums of the year feel supercharged with the spirit of discovery, but also offer revelations — both comforting and challenging — the deeper you dig. Accessibility links.

Best Jazz Albums of 2024. ... 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.

Here, then, are for me the 10 best new jazz recordings of 2024 ... maybe the most original, and this album is a wonder. It celebrates the 50 th anniversary of his main group, Ethnic Heritage ...

But it’s more accurate to hail Lloyd, 86, McPherson, 85, and Allen, 100, as vibrant purveyors of America’s greatest ... New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center. This six-song album, recorded ...

Whether you are a seasoned collector or just starting out, this list of the top 25 vinyl jazz albums will elevate your musical experience and transform your collection into something timeless.

Here, then, are for me the 10 best new jazz recordings of 2024 ... Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) This album is as strange and unlikely as its title, a suite of duets between trumpeter Wadada ...

who became the artistic director of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz at U.C.L.A., left his longtime home on Blue Note Records and released a pair of spellbinding albums. (The other is ...

Ethan Iverson may be best known as the pianist in the Bad Plus, the trio that made a big splash in the early 2000s by fusing jazz idioms with pop tunes by Blondie, Nirvana, Aphex Twin, and ABBA ...

This album is as much cabaret, Renaissance, mystical, and folk as it is jazz, but it features Cécile McLorin Salvant, the greatest jazz singer (one of the greatest singers, period) of our time ...

Here are my Top 10 jazz/improv albums of 2024. Each of them made my life a little better this year, and I’m hoping they might do the same for you. "Compassion," by Vijay Iyer (ECM) 1. ” ...