It’s officially 2023 year-end list season, and the staff-wide BrooklynVegan list of our favorite albums of the year is just around the corner, but first, here’s a list of 10 jazz albums from this year ...

Andrew W.K. has released TEMPTATION TO EXIST, his first album in five years, trading hard rock for an instrumental jazz-noir ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As I've said in a few recent editions of these best-of columns, it's been a dreadful year for most things but a fine one for music ...

The thing that all these jazz albums have in common is their amazing listenability, music you can enjoy for years and never get bored. At least I haven't been. Ballantine just moved to the East Coast ...

Wyclef Jean is opening another door in his catalog with “Q Theory,” a jazz project that connects his Haitian musical roots, ...

Danish producer and multi-instrumentalist FINE has detailed her upcoming album, Jazz Dreams, and shared new single ...

Buzzy debuts (Chappell Roan, Evian Christ) and anticipated follow-ups (Jorja Smith, yeule) are due this season. After a summer dominated by blockbuster tours by Taylor Swift and Beyoncé, this fall the ...

Legendary trumpeter Miles Davis released Kind of Blue in August 1959, leading into the era of 60s improvisational jazz. The album featured Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans ...

Jazz can be a confusing genre if you don’t know a ton about it. There are lots of records out there to investigate and the sounds can be challenging. Some music listeners want to know what they’re ...

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 ...