It’s been a good year for jazz, diverse in every way—styles, influences, tastes, and demographics too. I didn’t aim the list to turn out this way, but four of the albums’ leaders are women, and five ...

Craft Recordings’ 2025 batch of remastered jazz vinyl reissues are available for pre-order on 180-gram vinyl and hi-res digital formats. Spanning the late 1950s through early 1960s, these albums ...

Bria Skonberg takes classic songs and the hot jazz style of the 1910s, ’20s, ’30s and ’40s and yanks them into the 21st century. The trumpet player and singer, who makes her local debut at the JAS ...

No big jazz-pop crossover star broke out in 2019, and nobody hijacked the conversation with an incendiary comment requiring some “OK Boomer” clapback. Jazz stuck to its own steadfast devices this year ...

One of the latest in Craft Recordings’ stellar re-boot of the Original Jazz Classics (OJC) reissue series, the new edition of Kenny Burrell is arguably better than an “OG” release. Consistent with the ...

He’s been called the “Frank Sinatra of the DMV.” But 26-year-old singer Daniel Murray has been making a name for himself too — as the Gen Z artist bringing back jazz and the vocal stylings of classic ...

Assessing the best jazz albums of any current year could be a tricky affair. The tricky part lies in the term current, as during any given year there is a slew of reissued jazz albums that can ...