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Season 14 Episode 10
We're looking at the best jazz releases of March 2026! Listen with pianist Adam Maness as he breaks down and reacts to these great tracks.
Start your …
1 month, 4 weeks ago
"Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington" – Thelonious Monk
Season 14 Episode 9
Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington: The musicians on this album were already legends when it came out in 1955.
Each of them completely reinvented h…
2 months ago
"Brown Sugar" – D'Angelo
Season 14 Episode 8
D'Angelo's Brown Sugar sounded like nothing else in 1995. R&B was slick, polished, and built for clubs. D'Angelo later said the "deeper consciousness…
2 months, 1 week ago
"The Shape of Jazz to Come" – Ornette Coleman
Season 14 Episode 7
Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) may be the most controversial album in jazz history, and one of the most important.
In 1959, a brok…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
"Music of My Mind" – Stevie Wonder
Season 14 Episode 6
What happens when you let a musical genius make the album of his dreams? You get Stevie Wonder's Music of My Mind (1972), the start of the greatest r…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Best New Jazz In February 2026
Season 14 Episode 5
We're looking at the best jazz releases of February 2026! Listen with pianist Adam Maness as he breaks down and reacts to these great tracks.
Start yo…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
"Charlie Parker with Strings" – Charlie Parker
Season 14 Episode 4
Charlie Parker was punk rock before there was punk rock. His bebop was underground music: subversive, intellectual, and a major departure from popula…
3 months ago
"Gaucho" – Steely Dan
Season 14 Episode 3
Is Steely Dan's Gaucho more perfect than Aja? Maybe even ... too perfect? Two years in the studio. The greatest session musicians alive asked to play…
3 months, 1 week ago
"Bad" – Michael Jackson
Season 14 Episode 2
The Impossible follow-up: Michael Jackson's 1987 album Bad. Five years after Thriller changed everything, Michael returned with a record that would b…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
"Tapestry" – Carole King
Season 13 Episode 26
Carole King’s Tapestry is so cozy, you'll want to hug it; sit with it. It sounds simple, warm, and totally unassuming. But it’s way more impressive t…
3 months, 3 weeks ago