Here are my 10 top albums that made the last 12 months even more worthwhile, and they’ve held up to repeated listening, too: ...

Ian Patterson's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025 article by Ian Patterson, published on December 21, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find ...

And it seems that in 2025 there was not only an abundance of new jazz releases, but the quality bar was raised again, with ...

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 ...

Fort Myers producer Julian Sundby was jamming in the studio one day when he came up with the bluesy jazz song "Time For Some Lightning." Soon, his friend Lindsay Jerger walked in the room and asked to ...

Now, let me preface this by saying I love all types of music: blues, rock, metal, classical, hip-hop, soul/r&b, etc. I would suspect that most reading this probably have a great affinity for all ...

Music has always been an essential aspect of Samara Joy’s life. The 24-year-old jazz singer’s earliest memory of performing is at eight years old, when the Bronx, N.Y. native recalls singing songs ...

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 ...