Asked to pick five favorite Yuletide songs (and only five), our panel of holly-jolly musical enthusiasts offered some occasionally offbeat suggestions.

Preston Frazier’s Best of 2021 jazz favorites also include terrific releases by Peter DiCarlo, Dan Wilson, Nate Smith, David Garfield and Andrew Green.

The holiday music of 2021 may not be plentiful, but there are a handful of very worthy new releases and reissues.

In the 45 years since Pat Metheny’s debut album arrived, I haven’t gone many weeks (if even days) without listening. Yet there are still new revelations.

For Beatles fans, 2021 proved to be a bonanza.

Released 45 years ago today, ‘Wings Over America’ stands as some of the most vital work that Paul McCartney has ever done.

Ross Boissoneau digs into new seasonal sounds from Steve Perry, Kelly Clarkson, Norah Jones, Blackmore’s Night and others.

‘El Camino’ arrived 10 years ago today as an extension of everything the Black Keys accomplished with ‘Brothers’ – just turned up to 11.

Here is the video premiere of the totally improvised piece “Zion” by piano maestro Nick Maclean.

The first posthumous Johnny Cash LP arrived 15 years ago with plenty of harsh truths, but ‘A Hundred Highways’ never forgot the simple pleasures either.