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 ...

Rising young talents and revered veterans helped take jazz to a multitude of exciting new destinations in 2025.

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 ...

New releases from Tyshawn Sorey, Kim Cass, Bill Charlap, Tarbaby, Matthew Shipp, Kris Davis and others are showcasing how a classic format can still feel fresh. By Hank Shteamer Two of the most ...

For anyone in the habit of touting jazz as a living art form, it can feel both nourishing and a little perilous to stand in awe at the wonders of the past. It's especially tricky in a year when some ...

Pianist Kerry Politzer is always on the move. As a busy performer and bandleader with nine albums as a leader, a jazz educator at two universities, and the mother of two children, time is always of ...

Did you know that one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time was played on a very broken piano? It was made by Keith Jarrett and it's called the Köln Concert album. Jarrett has had a long and ...

Jon Batiste’s 2023 album “World Music Radio” was a pop album colored with global influences. It was big music meant to reach a big audience. He takes a very different approach on his forthcoming album ...

“Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings” features every studio recording made by the original Bill Evans Trio. The collection pairs the trio’s two studio albums — 1960’s “Portrait in ...

Bandleader and pianist Eddie Palmieri, whose pounding rhythms forged a new style for Latin music, died Wednesday at the age of 88. Fania Records, the renowned Latin jazz label that released several of ...

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, ...