Branford Marsalis, Joshua White and Patricia Brennan are just some of the artists who released head-turning albums this year.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After much consternation, I’ve managed to pare down a long list of fine jazz-improv recordings from 2025 to a top 10. So, apologies to Marshall Allen, The ...

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

Following up on 2024's outstanding Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic), vibraphonist Brennan shows no signs of slowing down on Of the Near and Far, an enigmatic and gripping release which highlights ...

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 ...

The ninth edition of London’s grass roots jazz festival offered a brilliant and varied range of gigs in the capital’s main jazz quarter. The Soho Jazz Festival, produced by Nathan Britton and George ...

A crop of artists on the verge of what’s next are returning with new releases, and Taylor Swift is reuniting with some of her poppiest collaborators. By Elena Bergeron Caryn GanzOlivia HornJon Pareles ...

1975 was a landmark year for music, marked by several outstanding album releases. Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks (Columbia), Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti (Swan Song), Pink Floyd's Wish You Were ...

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 ...