KNKX receives thousands of fresh songs per year for programming consideration. Here are the jazz releases from 2025 that rose to the top for our music hosts.

Branford Marsalis, Joshua White and Patricia Brennan are just some of the artists who released head-turning albums this year.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After much consternation, I’ve managed to pare down a long list of fine jazz-improv recordings from 2025 to a top 10. So, apologies to Marshall Allen, The ...

This week it’s time for the Best Jazz Albums of 2023, or maybe more precisely, the jazz albums I enjoyed the most and played the most over the last 12 months. Counter to some of the trends in the ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Enrico Nicola Mancini was born on April 16, 1924, in ...

Jazz is there and gone,” famed Miles Davis pianist and composer Keith Jarrett once said. “It happens. You have to be present ...

February might catch you off guard. While the rest of the country settles into winter’s grip, music fans know this month ...

It may be coincidence, or just a reflection of my own state of mind, that this dreadful year’s list of favorite jazz albums leans toward the meditative, the balladic, the Romantic, sometimes the Zen, ...