KNKX receives thousands of fresh songs per year for programming consideration. Here are the jazz releases from 2025 that rose ...

Hear tracks by Sarah McLachlan, Camilo, Us3 and others. By Jon Pareles Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on ...

Chet Baker, a name synonymous with cool jazz, left an indelible mark on the world of music with his evocative trumpet playing and hauntingly beautiful vocals. His career, spanning from the early 1950s ...

Percolating with ideas, the tunes on this release are intimate, enthralling, and and laced throughout with rich blue tones... —Bob Osborne, World of Jazz / All About Jazz “Imagine the peaks we could ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) George Benson’s music has a way of wrapping around you — like a smooth breeze on a late summer evening or the sound of someone you trust speaking truth with melody. Whether he’s ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Wynton Marsalis is a name that carries weight in both jazz and classical music. A gifted trumpeter, ...

The packaging for the physical versions of the box set will include liner notes, previously unseen photos, and original artwork by Mitchell. [RELATED: Joni Mitchell to Release the Archives, Vol. 4 Box ...

Is Laufey a jazz artist, or a bona fide pop star? The qualified answer, with asterisks to spare, is “both.” And that’s part of the fun in discussing everyone’s favorite Icelandic-Asian-American singer ...