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Best Music of 2016

The Bad Plus

The Best Jazz Albums We Missed in 2016

We all have our blind spots. Here's the best jazz albums we missed in 2016.
By Ron Hart
John Coltrane

The 5 Best Jazz Reissues of 2016

Here's our five favorite reissued jazz albums of 2016 that were all long-overdue for a fresh listen.
By Ron Hart
Dizzy Gillespie

The 5 Best Live Jazz Albums of 2016

There was almost too much amazing jazz music to count in 2016: Here's our five favorite live jazz albums.
By Ron Hart
Apoptygma Berzerk

The Best Overlooked Records of 2016

By Justin Joffe and Bryan Reesman
Pink Floyd in 1968.

The 25 Best Reissues of 2016

By Ron Hart
Nonkeen

The 10 Best New Artists of 2016

By Justin Joffe
The Beatles.

The 10 Best Live Albums of 2016

By Ron Hart
Body/Head.

The 10 Best Experimental Albums of 2016

By Brad Cohan
Solange.

The 10 Best R&B Albums of 2016

By Ron Hart
Esperanza Spalding.

The 20 Best Jazz Albums of 2016

By Ron Hart
David Bowie in the video for "Black Star".

The 50 Best Songs of 2016

By Cole Garner Hill, Justin Joffe, Ilana Kaplan, Brad Cohan and Ron Hart
Phife Dawg, Q-Tip and Jarobi White of A Tribe Called Quest perform at Barclays Center on November 20, 2013.

The 10 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2016

By Ron Hart
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