Here’s a Best of 2019 list featuring favorites from this year’s new releases – along with some albums that were just new to me.

Preston Frazier’s Best Songs of 2019 list includes rock, jazz and R&B, with a shout out to the continuing resonance of an old favorite from Walter Becker.

Vinyl loving fans of the Beatles, rejoice: 2019 was your year. But we found plenty of books, movies, box sets and other fun stuff, too.

Preston Frazier’s mid-year new music survey includes Best of 2019 candidates Bernard Fowler, Grupo Fantasma and Oz Noy, among others.

There’s a record for every corner of fusion, from minimalism to funk-jazz to jam band, on S. Victor Aaron’s final Best of 2018 list.

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.