December 11, 2022 We’ve revealed our picks for thebest songsandbest albums of 2022, and now we’re resuming the best music of the year with our annual dives into specific styles of music. First up is jazz, which continues to grow more exciting each year, extending one of its most exc...
Note: numbering of lists (aside from A/A-) is only temporary, to make it easier for me to tally up stats. I've made no effort to order (other than alphaetical by artist) anything in grades below A-.Also, several A-list albums below were close enough to Non-Jazz that I ...
Thanks for reading! That’s a lot of music, and a wide range of styles, but we hope you’ll agree it represents some of the best jazz albums of 2022! As always, the comments section is open for your ideas, tips and suggestions…...
Of course, there’s still a lot of work to be done. Hip-hop may have enjoyed a strong year but R&B as a genre continues to sputter. With a handful of exceptions, many of R&B’s best efforts were abbreviated EPs (or EPs retooled into albums) instead of full-lengths. And there we...
From there, OFF! never lets up, a series of free jazz interludes slicing up an unrelenting barrage of aural assault, the 67-year-old Morris more than happy to keep his foot pressed firmly upon mortality’s throat. - Sean Caldwell46. Dry Cleaning...
DOMi & JD BECK released their highly anticipated debut album in the summer of 2022 in partnership with Anderson .Paak’s own label APESHIT INC. That alone should tell you enough - French-born Domitille Degalle and US-born Beck are a rising new force in the instrumental jazz and soul ...
2022 was the year of the comeback. As the music industry stumbled out of its pandemic fog, many artists finally delivered long delayed, highly anticipated, and sonically experimental albums that met some of the expectations built up for them. Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Björk, Alvvays, Rosalía...
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everythingfrom Cilla Black to Nine Inch Nails, I Love You Jennifer B is by far one of the mostunpredictable albums of the year, with twists and turns coming at every corner.The sheer genius of Skye and Ellery shines throughout, and begs the question– where on Earth do they go from ...
Steve Lehman/Orchestre National de Jazz: Ex Machina (Pi) Alto saxophonist, a Braxton student, has a long list of outstanding albums from 2001, including complex octets and his African fusion Sélébéyone. ONJ is a venerable French organization, dating from 1986, directed since 2019 by Frédéri...