And it seems that in 2025 there was not only an abundance of new jazz releases, but the quality bar was raised again, with ...

Here are my 10 top albums that made the last 12 months even more worthwhile, and they’ve held up to repeated listening, too: ...

From jazz to hip-hop and beyond, experience the best songs that defined the year, all through the ears of WDET’s trusted ...

Some of the best reasons to not forget the Motor City can be found in the illuminating music documentary The Best Of The Best: Jazz From Detroit, directed by Daniel Loewenthal and written by Mark ...

Now, let me preface this by saying I love all types of music: blues, rock, metal, classical, hip-hop, soul/r&b, etc. I would suspect that most reading this probably have a great affinity for all ...

Mark Stryker is a journalist, author and filmmaker. He is also a co-producer of “The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit”.

Jaimie Branch’s Fly Or Die albums are the full-tilt interplanetary boogie, the sonic equivalent of the Orgasmatron machine which Jane Fonda’s character encountered in the 1968 sci-fi romp Barbarella.

A daylong celebration of jazz and wine may not be what you would expect to stumble upon on a Saturday afternoon in Nederland. The eclectic, bohemian mountain town at the top of Boulder Canyon is more ...

It’s been a good year for jazz, diverse in every way—styles, influences, tastes, and demographics too. I didn’t aim the list to turn out this way, but four of the albums’ leaders are women, and five ...

A documentary telling Detroit’s jazz legacy premieres at the 2024 Freep Film Festival. A local documentary premiering at the 2024 Freep Film Festival, “The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit,” ...