The jazz pianist brings Mary Lou Williams' ambitious, often overlooked 1945 suite into sharp focus.
Reflective yet optimistic album from the multi-talented London musician, melding fusion jazz, R&B, hip-hop, and other genres.
Following a 25-year hiatus, Jazz Is Dead's bosses coax the great jazz and fusion pianist back into the studio to record a sublime funky jazz and R&B set.
Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad bring Detroit's Tribe founders into the Linear Labs studio and realize a dream.
On her first recording in eight years, the restlessly creative banjoist, quintet, and special guests deliver an innovative, wildly diverse set.
An ecstatic celebration of America's vital waterways mixing jazz, folk, and tap-dancing traditions.
The vibrant sophomore album of post-bop jazz from the all-star jazz sextet.
On his first piano trio date in nearly 20 years, the great bandleader and his trio reinvent standards and a couple of complex originals.
On his second full-length, the South African drummer and composer leads his quintet through an exploration of time.
A nuanced quartet album that evokes the moody atmosphere of West Coast film noir.
The South African musician's Brownswood debut album weds township traditions to jazz, soul, funk, Latin, and slinky Afrobeat.
The harpist blends '70s-style soul-jazz with her own boldly contemporary aesthetic.
Original guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel rejoins the drummer's band for a warm, '70s fusion-inspired seventh album.
The legendary bassist showcases vocalist Jean Baylor on this gorgeous quintet album.
The Virginia-based quintet and a number of first-call guests deliver what is arguably the most elegant, soulful party album of the year.
Meditative, poetic reflections and improvisations with guest appearances by Kamasi Washington, André 3000, Laraaji, and many others.
The organic and creatively engaging debut album from the Ohio-born bassist.
The sophomore album from the bassist's exploratory, avant-garde quartet.
The singer imbues the folktale of a half-serpent maiden with layered meaning and blends French chanson, jazz, Baroque music, and Afro-Latin traditions.
The twilight-textured sophomore album from the Chicago jazz trumpeter.
An intimate yet dazzlingly playful and improvisatory duo performance captured at the iconic Greenwich Village club.
The British jazz trio reflect on tragedy and loss while producing some of their most comforting and optimistic music.
On his Blue Note debut, the Cuban pianist and a killer band weave Latin jazz, post-bop, blues, French chanson, and global funk.
The Seattle collective conjures a dreamscape of fractalized electronic grooves and improvisatory jazz.
The saxophonist's and bandleader's largest lineup to date joins musical traditions from past and present in a new, boundaryless direction
The band's Impulse! debut is at once fierce and focused, as they've learned to use the recording studio as a musical instrument.
The Israeli-born trumpeter's boldly realized fourth album and debut for Greenleaf Records.
The posthumous final album from the maverick trumpeter and singer is an exuberant encapsulation of her punk-jazz ethos.
The saxophonist reunites his Red Lily Quintet to explore the music and example of iconic gospel singer Mahalia Jackson.
On his third Blue Note leader date, the veteran drummer/composer links jazz, Latin, and African music by focusing his attention on guaguancó.
The pianist continues to come into his own on this soulful album with trumpeter Theo Croker.
Written in Costa Rica, the keyboardist's album weds contemporary jazz-funk, electronics, and Caribbean sounds in this exotic mélange.
The drummer blends '70s fusion sounds with contemporary funk and hip-hop grooves.
A dreamlike blend of post-bop jazz and contemporary fusion mark the sophomore album from the bassist's group.
On his WARP debut, the Seattle-based drummer and rapper assembles an excellent cast to showcase his illuminating jazz-hop.
The provocative long-player by Shabaka Hutchings' futurist jazz-hop quintet includes guests from North America, South Asia, and South Africa.
The composer and saxophonist returns with a provocative, insightful, musically adventurous album centering on feminism and spirituality.
The bassist leads a virtuosic, vocal-centric ensemble on her third album for Biophilia.
Inspired by Miles Davis' seminal Bitches Brew, this collective of London jazz musicians met and improvised for three days in realizing this set.
The powerfully unhinged fifth album from the maverick guitarist's trio.
The composer reflects on reproductive rights, chronicling inequality in Black women's pregnancies from an ancestor's tragic story to the reversal of Roe v. Wade.
The guitarist evokes the crisp style of Pat Martino on this luminous quartet date.
Loose, spontaneous, and uplifting cross-genre collaboration guided by the spirit of Pharoah Sanders.
The saxophonist's harmonically vibrant blend of jazz, string music, and globally minded rhythms.
The Los Angeles-based musical polymath took 14 years and dozens of musicians to record his triple-length debut studio album.
The Chicago-based ensemble with tenor great Ari Brown as a special guest deliver a trancelike exercise in modal jazz and circular rhythm.
A boldly realized, conceptually thought-provoking blend of orchestral classical strings and chamber jazz.
Covers and originals recorded solo over several years have been re-envisioned and re-edited to create a canny set of electric guitar ballads.
The duo's sophomore album of romantic 1940s- and '50s-inspired jazz and traditional pop.
The debut album from the genre-bending jazz guitar and Indian sitar quartet.
Paring the Exploding Star Orchestra down to an octet with new members opens sonic, musical, and experimental possibilities for the group.
The drummer's second album with his rustically cinematic chamber jazz group.
The experimental saxophonist applies his deconstructed approach to R&B hits of the 1990s and 2000s.
An engagingly rapturous quartet album from the French vibraphonist.
An atmospheric blend of modal jazz and post-rock influences marks the Bay Area group's third album.
Recorded at the Sons d'hiver Festival in 2020, this amazing gig featuring 21 musicians commemorates AEC's arrival in Paris in 1968.
The trio's 19th studio album showcases a new m.o. recording the 20-minute jams they commence rehearsals with.
The drummer/composer/educator and collaborators present a brilliantly pointillistic, polymetric, authoritatively evolved language for jazz piano trio.
The drummer/composer's debut studio album is a sprawling 19-track musical autobiography wedding electric jazz to R&B, funk, reggae, and Afrobeat.
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Esperanza Spalding & Fred Hersch
