Fiona Joy Hawkins, Rebecca Daniel - Lake of Contemplation - Study; Fiona Joy Hawkins, Riverest - Gliding Meditation - Study; Twilight Moment; Flight of the Snowbird; Chopin Prelude in E Minor; ...

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 ...

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 ...

*For the first time in the band’s history, The Best of Sade has climbed to No. 1 on Billboard’s Jazz Albums chart, marking a significant milestone for the iconic group. The greatest hits compilation, ...

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, ...

Even if you aren’t actively seeking out jazz, it’s inescapable. It directly informs so much hip hop and electronic music, and we frequently hear it popping up in punk, metal, and indie rock too. It ...

If you think about it a certain way, one of the defining qualities of jazz is earnestness. This is one of the reasons why jazz and metal have so much in common, and so often appeal to the same ...