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.

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 ...

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.

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.

One of the most celebrated jazz records of all time, “Kind of Blue” by Miles Davis is a cornerstone for any jazz collection. The album’s modal improvisation and iconic lineup of artists ...

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 ...

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 ...

It doesn’t hurt that the contemporary jazz world has recently been heavily embraced by world-famous people like André 3000, whose debut jazz album New Blue Sun appeared on our list of last year ...