Expand your jazz knowledge with our JazzTimes 10 lists, Artist’s Choice playlists, and Before & After listening session features.
Our Before & After listening sessions have always been big reader favorites; according to our surveys, B&A is consistently one of the first sections of … Read More “The Best of Before & After: #TimesUp Edition”
Earlier in 2020, to celebrate our golden anniversary, we conducted five separate readers’ polls asking you to tell us your top 10 jazz albums for … Read More “Top 10 Jazz Albums of the 1970s: Readers’ Picks”
In spite of the circumstances that have befallen the globe in 2020, I am thankful for this moment as I sit to reflect on God’s … Read More “Brian Blade: A 1970 Artist’s Choice”
We’ve had recorded music for a little over 100 years. Before that, if you wanted to hear music, you had to have someone physically present, … Read More “Artist’s Choice: Makaya McCraven on the Studio as Instrument”
When the world was in a more social way, the sight of Johnathan Blake behind the drum kit was a sign of maximum support, comfort, … Read More “Johnathan Blake: Before & After”
When I started listening to jazz, as a kid growing up in rural Ohio, I got pretty lucky choosing my first few records. A Dizzy … Read More “Artist’s Choice: John Lake on “Horn Bands””
A few weeks before the release of Connect, Charles Tolliver’s first new recording in 13 years, the trumpeter and composer is home in New York … Read More “Charles Tolliver: Before & After”
You are reading the words of an Andrew Hill fanatic. The kind who has spent years poring over his music, track by track. And why … Read More “JazzTimes 10: Essential Andrew Hill Recordings”
Albums by Albert Ayler (Spiritual Unity, Spirits Rejoice) and Patty Waters (Sings, College Tour) are oft-referenced gatekeepers of the ESP-Disk’ aesthetic—you can read more about … Read More “Free Five: A Choice Quintet of ESP-Disk’ Releases”
