The 10 best jazz albums of 2025 Jakob Bro’s Bill Frisell collaboration finally saw the light, Cécile McLorin Salvant drew on her teenage pop memories and Anthony Braxton looked back to 1985 The Guardian - UK · Dec 26, 2025
Add to playlist: the spiky, playful free jazz of Laura Ann Singh and the week’s best new tracks A rowdy debut departs from Singh’s American bolero work to revel in the chaos of atonal scrapes, cymbal splashes, wonky horns and raucous vocals The Guardian - UK · Oct 24, 2025
Cécile McLorin Salvant: Oh Snap review – a jazz artist of rare gifts and fearless variety From breezy swing to scampering synths, folksy harmonies to stark wails of the soul, Salvant’s crystalline vocals shine across her ingenious experiments The Guardian - UK · Sep 19, 2025
Rhythm Nation: how music gives Haiti hope amid the chaos The country has been hit by decades of crises and catastrophe, but its culture continues to thrive across the diaspora. Here, Haitian musicians celebrate its ’sounds of freedom’ The Guardian - UK · May 17, 2024
Chet Baker: Blue Room review – gorgeous unreleased sessions by maestro of drowsy jazz On previously unheard 1979 recordings for Dutch radio, impulsive improvisations by the trumpeter-vocalist are expressed with his inimitable featherlight phrasing The Guardian - UK · Apr 21, 2023
Haiti’s popular international jazz festival is back. But it’s not in Port-au-Prince For 15 years, Milena Sandler and Joel Widmaier welcomed some of the biggest international names in jazz and R&B to Haiti amid political turmoil, fuel shortages and protests, musicians like Branford Marsalis, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Joss Stone. Miami Herald · Jan 16, 2023
In jazz, 2022 was a year of resurgence and renewed caution, triumphant returns and major losses SAN DIEGO — After being largely sidelined in 2020 and too much of 2021, jazz rebounded this year in San Diego, across the nation and around the world — but with some modifications and pandemic-era setbacks and losses. Tribune News Service · Dec 23, 2022
From Thor: Love and Thunder to The Art Mysteries: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment Whether you’re into the art of Marvel or prefer to marvel at art, our critics have you covered for the next seven days The Guardian - UK · Jul 9, 2022
Jazz ‘genius’ Cécile McLorin Salvant: ‘In periods of loneliness and fear, it’s instinctual to want to talk about love’ Fresh from receiving a MacArthur Foundation grant – and releasing an album inspired by Kate Bush and ghostly folk – the daring singer is already absorbed in the next challenge The Guardian - UK · Mar 7, 2022