Dave Sumner

BEST JAZZ The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, May 2026 By Dave Sumner · June 04, 2026 At this point, after nearly 10 years of reading my column, many (most? all?) of you are coming into it expecting something different. The musicians selected for this month’s column won’t let you down. The music recommended below is something different than even the normal “something different.” The few albums I could tag as straight-ahead are practically jarring for their differences to the rest.

BEST JAZZ The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, April 2026 By Dave Sumner · April 29, 2026 No matter how much I try to mix it up with this column and celebrate all of the varied ways jazz is expressed in the modern scene, invariably each column latches onto one commonality. For April’s installment, it’s the trio.

BEST JAZZ The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, March 2026 By Dave Sumner · April 03, 2026 This was a monster month of new releases. It’s always this way in March (as it is for September, too, which I mention only to explain the feeling of déjà vu you’ll encounter when you read this column’s intro in six months time). Every month, I either insinuate or explicitly state this column is merely your starting point for exploring everything the month has to offer in cool, new music.