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.

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.

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.

A direct outgrowth of George Colligan’s work as an educator, Other Barry sounds like a bunch of PhD professors of funky rock-jazz.

Steve Kuhn just doing his regular jazz trio thing with Joey Baron and Steve Swallow – as they do on ‘To and From the Heart’ – is always exceptionally good.

Tiger Hatchery’s ‘Breathing In the Walls’ proves that you don’t have to find an alternative to jazz to get your yah-yah’s out.