First, a warning: there is no Michael Bublé on this list. Or Diana Krall. Or anything that sounds remotely like Kenny G. Jazz was never meant to be the tepid Muzak you have to endure in hotel ...

2014s Whiplash follows a young jazz drummer who is intent on being the best, and unsurprisingly, ... Instead, Whiplash uses specific jazz songs, sometimes over and over again, ...

The Best Jazz Albums of 2023. Fred Kaplan. Mon, December 4, 2023 at 6:21 PM UTC. ... This 2012 duet concert is simply wonderful: seven songs, mostly standards, unrehearsed, ...

Post the all-time best Christmas jazz songs of your choice in the comments section below. I will save a special lump of coal just for you. "The Christmas Song" by Dexter Gordon From The Panther!

I wondered about putting this song on a jazz album, but was strongly encouraged to do so by my family and by Larry (who loves it so much that it'd been in his repertoire also). This song speaks of a ...

For the annual celebration of Juneteenth, today's jazz luminaries — musicians such as Jason Moran, Christian McBride, Orrin Evans, Jeremy Pelt and Bobby Watson — reflect on recordings about ...

Best Jazz Albums of 2023. ... On “Owl Song,” he brings together two master musicians who had hardly ever played together — the guitarist Bill Frisell and the drummer Herlin Riley — for a ...

If you think about it a certain way, one of the defining qualities of jazz is earnestness. This is one of the reasons why jazz and metal have so much in common, and so often appeal to the same ...

20 of the best jazz songs. From John Coltrane to Anita O'Day. By Iliyas Ong. 29th July 2019. Miles Davis. First, a warning: there is no Michael Bublé on this list. Or Diana Krall.

It swirls jazz, soul, and modern classical together into something that at its best reminds me of the work of the late Greg Tate’s improvising ensemble Burnt Sugar.