The Year in Jazz

My Top 10 Albums, an all-star panel, a killer podcast

With Ashley Kahn and Harmony Holiday at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, Dec. 12, 2023. (Photo: Joan Gaylord)

Some critics are natural-born listmakers. They take pride in their tabulations, happily obsessing over what goes where. I’m always more interested in the why and how — the intentions behind a thing, and the way that it all comes together (or d…