The most compelling releases of the year reimagined hip-hop tracks, deep-rooted collaborations and longstanding inspirations.

Smithsonian Collection of Recordings: RD 0393; A 21020; DIDP 071806. Solo jazz piano music and jazz ensembles with piano. Compact disc; remastered. Program notes ([3] p.) inserted in container. Mellow ...

With live musical performances still in extremely short supply, recordings help us make it through the night. Following are some of the best jazz releases of the year so far: Jazz at Lincoln Center ...

The Original James P. Johnson goes a long way toward summing up the early history of jazz piano. The early jazz singer Ethel Waters stated, " All the hits you hear, now as then, originated with ...

Craft Recordings Original Jazz Classics Reissue Series continues in June with 4 iconic Mal Wadron, Yusef Lateef, and Bill Evans albums. The second batch of OJC series reissues begins June 30, and all ...

As jazz nightclubs dwindle in number and big bands continue to be scarce, more young jazzmen are acquiring experience in the rapidly multiplying units in colleges and universities. This trio, for ...

The top jazz recordings of 2021, in the order in which they were encountered... Avant pianist Satoko Fujii, huddled in her apartment in Kobe, Japan, has turned the challenges of Covid-19 to her ...

Photos by Gari Garaialde/Redferns, Peter Van Breukelen/Contributor/Getty Images, Shannon Finney/Getty Images, Pascal Schmidt/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images, Bernd Thissen/picture alliance via Getty ...

It may be coincidence, or just a reflection of my own state of mind, that this dreadful year’s list of favorite jazz albums leans toward the meditative, the balladic, the Romantic, sometimes the Zen, ...

Smithsonian Collection of Recordings: RD 039 (A 21011--A 21014); A4 21010 (A 21011--A 21014); DIDP 071657--DIDP 071660. Solo jazz piano music and jazz ensembles with piano. Compact discs; remastered.