By Devin Leonard 12/23/09 3:15pm

The 10 Best Jazz Albums of 2009

It can be frustrating to be a jazz lover. Even in New York, you run into culturally sophisticated people who would be embarrassed to admit their unfamiliarity with the latest Brooklyn indie rock band (as of this moment, that would be the Dirty Projectors, of course), but are perfectly comfortable confessing their ignorance about an Read More

By Devin Leonard 9/18/09 2:29pm

Jazz in the Age of the iPod

Alto saxophonist–composer David Binney was in the back of a van on the way to a gig in Italy two years ago when he had an epiphany listening to his iPod. He dutifully recorded the moment on the Internet.

“I realize that so many of the records I love are from the Seventies,” Mr. Read More