Four of 2024’s standout jazz albums came from saxophonists Immanuel Wilkins, 27, Charles McPherson, 85, Charles Lloyd, 86, and Marshall Allen, 100.

Cuban American pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba has done almost everything possible for a jazz artist, and this is the 36 th album released under his leadership. Born in Havana, Rubalcaba has lived in ...

In 1996, on The Art of the Trio, Vol. 1, an album that otherwise consists of original pieces and jazz standards, he strung out an adventurous, sprightly cover of “Blackbird.” ...