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For a lot of years, Vera Brandes couldn’t listen. Not once had she heard the bestselling solo jazz album of all time—Keith Jarrett’s passionate and sublime The Köln Concert—though she’d been essential ...

50 years after its release, Fleetwood Mac‘s Rumours isn’t just the best selling classic rock album of 2025, it’s the 25th-best selling record of the year overall. Of course, the very top of the 2025 ...

Nearly half of the most collected albums on Discogs' 2025 most collected albums list came from the worlds of rock and metal. The music cataloging website is popular among collectors who enjoy keeping ...

So... what kind of a year was 2025 for jazz? Well, it marked the centennial of saxophonist Gene Ammons, drummer Roy Haynes, critic Nat Hentoff, pianist Jutta Hipp ...