Jazz is music made in the moment and our moment is an increasingly perilous one. As a writer trying to keep up, I often feel as if I’ve exhausted the power of words to describe where we are, how we ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After much consternation, I’ve managed to pare down a long list of fine jazz-improv recordings from 2025 to a top 10. So, apologies to Marshall Allen, The ...

It’s been a good year for jazz, diverse in every way—styles, influences, tastes, and demographics too. I didn’t aim the list to turn out this way, but four of the albums’ leaders are women, and five ...

Assessing the best jazz albums of any current year could be a tricky affair. The tricky part lies in the term current, as during any given year there is a slew of reissued jazz albums that can ...

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Ken Hohman's Iconoclastic List of the Top 9 Jazz Recordings for 2025 article by Ken Hohman, published on January 9, 2026 at All About Jazz. Find more Year in Review articles ...

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(ThyBlackMan.com) Duke Ellington, a giant in jazz history, was more than just a composer and bandleader—he was a cultural architect whose music told the stories of Black excellence, struggle, and ...

SAN DIEGO -- Rising young talents and revered veterans helped take jazz to a multitude of exciting new destinations in 2025. But the most notable debut album of the year, the aptly titled "New Dawn," ...

Time magazine names ‘Architects of AI’ as its person of the year for 2025 Google’s most-searched pop culture terms of 2025, explained No, those aren’t the cadenced numbers an NFL quarterback calls out ...

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, ...