Rising young talents and revered veterans helped take jazz to a multitude of exciting new destinations in 2025.

Here are my 10 top albums that made the last 12 months even more worthwhile, and they’ve held up to repeated listening, too: 2. “ The Ancients ,” (self-titled) (Eremite Records): Emerging sax explorer ...

KNKX receives thousands of fresh songs per year for programming consideration. Here are the jazz releases from 2025 that rose ...

Back in the late sixties, when rock musicians started to explore more complex things, the music became at the same time more interesting and, well, complicated at the same time. It was the advent of ...

The relative demise of vinyl and the onslaught of mp3’s and digidownloads have pretty much wiped out the pleasurable gestalt of seeing a great album cover. Many books have been devoted to classic rock ...

Sweet reissues, new archival releases, and a truly new recording that is nevertheless a tribute to a genius musician of the 1950s and early 1960s... what can I say, I'm just an old-school kind of jazz ...

SHEFFIELD — Bobby Previte first heard “Bitches Brew” as a college student in upstate New York. At the time, right when Miles Davis' trailblazing 1970 jazz album was released, it rocked Previte's world ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, December 9, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- International jazz recording artist Xandra Myriam X has officially released her new modern ...

The most compelling releases of the year reimagined hip-hop tracks, deep-rooted collaborations and longstanding inspirations. By Hank Shteamer In a year that saw the deaths of two leading drummers, ...