Music made when groups are in a state of flux can be pretty good too.

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

Not everyone is cut out to take on such an ambitious project but one look at Michael Leonhart’s background makes it undeniably clear that he could.

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

The Embrooks’ highly anticipated ‘We Who Are’ represents a welcome, positive and long-overdue comeback.

Here is the advance single “Windfall,” from Jazz Funk Soul’s upcoming album ‘Life and Times.’

Marc Ribot and his merry little band of jazz misfits are back extending the middle finger to anything or anybody that catches their ire.

Adam Hopkins is one of the few talents with the vision to make jazz directed at the current and future generations, not the past ones.

Fifty years ago, Herbie Hancock paused to have a little cartoon-related fun. And when Herbie is having fun, his listeners usually are, too.

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