JazzTimes Magazine Jan/ Feb 2022 Retour à l'édition précédente

THE TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2021 From untold thousands of jazz releases, our contributors picked their absolute favorites—40 new, 10 historical—and commented on a few.

HARPS IN JAZZ No, we don’t mean mouth harps (a.k.a. harmonicas), we mean real ones. And in fact there’s a long, distinguished history of harpists playing jazz, from Dorothy Ashby and Betty Glamann to Alice Coltrane and Zeena Parkins. Geoffrey Himes speaks to modern practitioners of the art—including Edmar Castaneda, Brandee Younger, and Jacqueline Kerrod—about its past, present, and future.