The most compelling releases of the year reimagined hip-hop tracks, deep-rooted collaborations and longstanding inspirations.

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Detroit has always been showcased as a music city and it is known that some of the greatest talents in music emerge from ...

Mark Corroto's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025 article by Mark Corroto, published on December 12, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more ...

As I’ve said in a few recent editions of these best-of columns, it’s been a dreadful year for most things but a fine one for music, which, as the verse contends, “has charms to soothe a savage breast, ...

And it seems that in 2025 there was not only an abundance of new jazz releases, but the quality bar was raised again, with ...

Some of the best reasons to not forget the Motor City can be found in the illuminating music documentary The Best Of The Best: Jazz From Detroit, directed by Daniel Loewenthal and written by Mark ...

Another year of first-rate creative jazz is in the books, along with another impossible set of choices in assembling a top-10 list. These are some of the standouts, in a year in which trios and ...

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Jazz was all over the place in 2022. I mean that as a compliment, and with an intended double meaning: We saw some great examples of improvisers flowing through the culture, and we also heard ...