A selection of the best recorded examples of the otherwise mostly undocumented music heard in jazz clubs like Slugs’.

Craft Recordings’ vinyl series Original Jazz Classics has announced its first five reissues of 2025, including two titles from Miles Davis.

I can't truly say that I believe that any release is the "best," since that epithetical ideal, ranking system and all, doesn't and shouldn't apply to music. But I can say that the albums listed below ...

Given how many outstanding albums were released in 1975, how can any respectable music critic claim it was an inferior year ...

In the late 1960s, the recording industry lost interest in America’s greatest art form. But in a small, dark club on the ...

The year 1975 was a very good one for Elton John and Chicago. It was pretty good as well for artists from Olivia Newton-John ...

Joel Ross “Nublues” Listeners familiar with me know I love vibes. And Joel Ross is a rising voice on the mallets. This album; ...

The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz, but the best guitarists have taken up the challenge of finding ...

A modern-day renaissance man, jazz trumpeter and opera composer Terence Blanchard is an 8-time Grammy Award-winner whose film ...

These ten albums all evoke wondrously wintery feelings, whether through explicitly spelled out themes, chill vibes, an icy ...

Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes) and at Apple Music here, and sign ...

Joe Henderson’s celebrated 1973 album ‘Multiple’ is set to receive a reissue courtesy of Jazz Dispensary’s Top Shelf series.