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 ...

This may be the only jazz album of Beatles songs that works, in part because Mehldau—a pianist of pristine touch, dexterous rhythm, and a peerlessly colorful harmonic sense who was born in 1970 ...

The 10 Best Jazz Albums Of 2021 2021 In Review December 8, 2021 2:00 PM By Phil Freeman As the second year of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic draws to a close, live music is slowly coming back.

Quarantine is especially challenging when it comes to making jazz, which usually means getting together in a little room and cutting loose. But while few albums were recorded during the pandemic ...

Songs he wrote, like “Misty,” were performed everywhere, and his Concert by the Sea was the best-selling live jazz album of all time. He had a contract dispute with Columbia Records, ...

From recast gems of the '50s to sketches on an Argentine folk composer, jazz artists in 2010 practiced a historical eclecticism. Hear songs from the year's top records, chosen by Patrick ...

But while few albums were recorded during the pandemic so far (none on this list), ... Best jazz albums of 2020 Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) ...

Home » Jazz Articles » Top Ten List » The Ten Best Jazz Christmas Albums Of All Time like 42. The Ten Best Jazz Christmas Albums Of All Time . view slideshow. By Peter J. Hoetjes December 5, 2023 View ...

Best Jazz Albums of 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic halted live performance, the lifeblood of the genre, but a run of powerful albums — and standout debuts — provided respite, and hope.

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 ...