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The 20 Best Jazz Albums of 2022

The 20 Best Jazz Albums of 2022

Jazz, born of the creative brilliance of Black American culture and now wonderfully global, is passionately alive in 2022. These are the year’s best jazz albums.

JazzMatters: The Best New Jazz of Summer 2022

JazzMatters: The Best New Jazz of Summer 2022

The best new jazz and creative music this summer features masters Charles Lloyd and Al Foster, experimentalist Tyshawn Sorey, and young cats DOMi and JD Beck.

Pianist Vijay Iyer Looks Back and Ahead with His New Trio on ‘Uneasy’

Pianist Vijay Iyer Looks Back and Ahead with His New Trio on ‘Uneasy’

Vijay Iyer Trio’s Uneasy is a set of modern piano jazz covering a remarkable range, featuring three brilliant musical imaginations playing well together.

Myra Melford’s Snowy Egret Create Continual Motion and Invention on ‘The Other Side of Air’

Myra Melford’s Snowy Egret Create Continual Motion and Invention on ‘The Other Side of Air’

Jazz pianist Myra Melford's ensemble of light textures and dancing rhythms continues to be creatively attractive but still challenging new jazz.

Vijay Iyer Sextet: Far From Over

Vijay Iyer Sextet: Far From Over

The everywhere-at-once pianist has recorded with his sextet, using a bank of horns for the first time and touching several different modes. An album of surprise, tradition, and exploration. But it grooves too.
Tyshawn Sorey: Verisimilitude

Tyshawn Sorey: Verisimilitude

The composer and drummer at the forefront of the New Jazz presents his trio—but the slow, deliberate, brilliant music is much more "jazz piano trio" music. It is a soundscape of astonishing detail.

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Steve Coleman and Five Elements: The Mancy of Sound

The Best Jazz of 2008

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Steve Lehman Quintet: On Meaning

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