Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After much consternation, I’ve managed to pare down a long list of fine jazz-improv recordings from 2025 to a top 10. So, apologies to Marshall Allen, The ...

With a focus on the years between 1960 and 1980, Thurston Moore provides Stewart Smith with ten entry points into the wild ...

The history of jazz music is told in hundreds of cities from coast to coast in America. From the cradle in New Orleans and the Mississippi River delta, the great migration of Black Americans northward ...

Jazz is music made in the moment and our moment is an increasingly perilous one. As a writer trying to keep up, I often feel as if I’ve exhausted the power of words to describe where we are, how we ...

Rising young talents and revered veterans helped take jazz to a multitude of exciting new destinations in 2025. But the most notable debut album of the year, the aptly titled “New Dawn,” came from a ...

Ken Hohman's Iconoclastic List of the Top 9 Jazz Recordings for 2025 article by Ken Hohman, published on January 9, 2026 at All About Jazz. Find more Year in Review articles ...

I have always found Detroit jazz lovers to be the most educated jazz audience I know,” said trumpeter David Weiss.

Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. NINA MOINI: That is "The Good Life" by Minneapolis musician Tina from Tina and the B-Sides. She's one of the many ...

A brand-new event makes August 2025 a busy month for music buffs in Door County, which now has its first-ever jazz festival to join two long-running classical music festivals and a daylong blues bash.

So... what kind of a year was 2025 for jazz? Well, it marked the centennial of saxophonist Gene Ammons, drummer Roy Haynes, critic Nat Hentoff, pianist Jutta Hipp ...