On a personal note, this is unlike any "best of the year" summaries I've written during my more than twenty-five years as a reviewer for All ... time until early September, a span of more than four ...

The year 1975 was a very good one for Elton John and Chicago. It was pretty good as well for artists from Olivia Newton-John ...

This has been the year that musicians collaborated and cross-pollinated, experimented within and outside jazz. Best of all, some of the more ... artist honing his style one song at a time. Some of ...

It’s all there, clear as a bell, in the recording. Probably the most famous jazz album of all time – and almost certainly the best-selling, Kind of Blue represented a new direction for Miles Davis, as ...

All three released memorable albums this year and performed near and far. And all three continue to collaborate with gifted ...

and the way their sleeve designs imitated famous jazz album covers — it’s done out of love, not mockery. I recently saw a pretty amazing movie that made that earnestness into its crowning virtue.