The most compelling releases of the year reimagined hip-hop tracks, deep-rooted collaborations and longstanding inspirations.

Musicians both established and up-and-coming stretched themselves in fresh ways over the last year, creating poignant moments of collaboration and challenge. By Hank Shteamer In 2024, jazz continued ...

She’s been at least intriguing since she first came on the scene as a fearless 27-year-old back in 2008, splashing new colors ...

Vocalist Mafalda Minnozzi has released her fourth jazz album, “Riofonic.” The album for the U.S. market was produced by New York guitarist, arranger and musical director Paul Ricci and was recorded in ...

No, those aren’t the cadenced numbers an NFL quarterback calls out just before the ball is hiked in a game. Rather, they are the ages of three storied jazz saxophonists — Charles Lloyd, Charles ...

If you think about it a certain way, one of the defining qualities of jazz is earnestness. This is one of the reasons why jazz and metal have so much in common, and so often appeal to the same ...

It may be coincidence, or just a reflection of my own state of mind, that this dreadful year’s list of favorite jazz albums leans toward the meditative, the balladic, the Romantic, sometimes the Zen, ...