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 ...

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 ...

Even among the greatest jazz albums, Miles Davis's Kind of Blue stands apart. It is the one jazz album everyone has heard of, even if they don't like jazz, and it is easily the best-selling jazz album ...

I always wanted to write how Miles Davis talked: abrupt, profane, contemptuous, in a stiletto rhythm that jabbed and stung and threw off unexpected sparks of enlightenment and tenderness. Of course, ...

The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit explores the landmark influence of Detroit’s innovative jazz musicians. Framed by Detroit’s dramatic rise and fall as an industrial power and its dynamic Black ...

In the late 1960s, the recording industry lost interest in America’s greatest art form. But in a small, dark club on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, jazz legends were playing the best music you’ve ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. It may be coincidence, or just a reflection of my own state of mind, that this dreadful year’s list ...

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 ...

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