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 About Jazz ... I completed no reviews from that time until ...

This has been the year that musicians collaborated and cross-pollinated, experimented within and outside jazz. Best of all, some of the more avant-garde musicians seemed ... it might be an artist ...

If you think about it a certain way, one of the defining qualities of jazz is earnestness ... it requires a lot of time and a particular effort. It’s really very long and delicate, so it ...

No, those aren’t the cadenced numbers an NFL quarterback calls out just before the ball is hiked in a game. Rather, they are the ages of three storied jazz saxophonists — Charles Lloyd ...

Simply cannot be done. This is a timeless classic and one of the most successful jazz albums of all time for a very simple reason, it is love and sex set to music. It is romance, it is sensual ...