Here is S. Victor Aaron’s Best of 2018 list for avant garde jazz and experimental music, including releases by Wendy Eisenberg, Brandon Seabrook, David Dominique and others.

Here is S. Victor Aaron’s Best of 2018 list for modern and mainstream jazz releases.

Preston Frazier’s Best of 2018 list includes a broad array of sounds and genres from familiar names and legends in the making.

David Crosby, Boz Scaggs and Marc Ribot headline S. Victor Aaron’s Best of 2018 list for non-jazz albums.

This best of 2018 list for hard rock and metal is capped by one mammoth record that made the whole year worth it.

Preston Frazier’s jazz-focused survey of Best of 2018 albums includes Mark Wade, Chris Carver, Peter Erskine and Stanley Clarke, among others.

It was quite a year for fans of Yes, as Preston Frazier’s Best of 2018 list for box sets and reissues shows.

Preston Frazier offers his take on the best albums of 2018 (so far), with tips of the hat to Neal Morse, Parliament, Take 6 and others.

The baker’s dozen in this Best of 2017 list reveals that fusion jazz has expanded and diversified way past its ‘Bitches Brew’-era beginnings.

Here’s the part of the annual Best of 2017 lists that’s the most fun to pull together.