Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. These days on the Billboard charts, Frank Sinatra's music can ...

2025 was a great year for jazz. Below are my reviews for the year, from established artists like Brad Mehldau, John Scofield, and Celine McLorin Salvant to rising talents like Christian Pabst and ...

As part of Year in Review series, I've already highlighted my favorite albums of 2025 (you can view the list here). While I included artists from around the world, intentionally leaving out my own ...

Miles Davis released one of his highest-chart-topping albums in 1970 that revived the jazz genre with an experimental sound.

So... what kind of a year was 2025 for jazz? Well, it marked the centennial of saxophonist Gene Ammons, drummer Roy Haynes, critic Nat Hentoff, pianist Jutta Hipp ...

Assessing the best jazz albums of any current year could be a tricky affair. The tricky part lies in the term current, as during any given year there is a slew of reissued jazz albums that can ...

Rising young talents and revered veterans helped take jazz to a multitude of exciting new destinations in 2025. But the most notable debut album of the year, the aptly titled “New Dawn,” came from a ...

Sade sees Diamond Life and Promise return to Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz Albums chart, while The Best of Sade stays at No. 1 and climbs on the Billboard 200. Sade on stage during the Live Aid ...

The city’s music is spiritual, searching and defiantly local, even when it spreads worldwide. Hear tracks from Yusef Lateef, ...

Irreversible Entanglements, the free jazz collective featuring poet-musician Camae Ayewa, releases "Future Present Past" — ...

LOS ANGELES — On his first ever solo album, Red Hot Chili Peppers' eccentric bassist Flea is full of surprises. He opens with a track that serves as an abbreviated segue between what most fans know ...

SAN DIEGO -- Rising young talents and revered veterans helped take jazz to a multitude of exciting new destinations in 2025. But the most notable debut album of the year, the aptly titled "New Dawn," ...