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 ...

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 ...

A jazz singer, an interpreter of complex modern composition scores, also a free improviser, composer and movement artist, no single album could capture the full range of Mitchener’s art, but Solo ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...