Here are my Top 10 jazz/improv albums of 2024. Each of them made my life a little better this year, and I’m hoping they might do the same for you. "Compassion," by Vijay Iyer (ECM) 1. ”Giant Beauty,” ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Enrico Nicola Mancini was born on April 16, 1924, in ...

Bill Frisell, one of the world’s most acclaimed jazz guitarists, was puzzled. At the conclusion of the first of his two Oct. 1 shows at the rebranded, reengineered and reborn New Orleans Jazz & Blues ...

Isamu Ohira, the composer of the Gran Turismo menu music, helped define the unique sonic signature of the games, making him ...

From bebop to hip-hop, improvised music to Persian jazz, plus a strong selection of jazz on film, the EFG London Jazz Festival’s latest edition delivered a brilliant lineup. ByJoanne Shurvell, ...

Jaimie Branch’s Fly Or Die albums are the full-tilt interplanetary boogie, the sonic equivalent of the Orgasmatron machine which Jane Fonda’s character encountered in the 1968 sci-fi romp Barbarella.

Dave Brubeck, a pianist and composer whose distinctive mixture of experimentation and accessibility made him one of the most popular jazz musicians of the 1950s and 60s, died Wednesday morning in ...

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, ...