Pedal steel player Susan Alcorn, whose album with her quintet, Pedernal, was the pick for the best album of the year by Francis Davis, who runs the annual NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll. David Lobato/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
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GroundUP perform a Tiny Desk (home) concert. NPR hide caption
Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride and Brian Blade. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
The late rapper Juice WRLD. His posthumous full-length, Legends Never Die, tops our list of the best new albums out this week. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Brad Mehldau's Finding Gabriel comes out May 17. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band performs at Blue Note Hawaii on Oct. 11, 2016. Hawaii In Real Life/Hawaii In Real Life hide caption
Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau
On Brad Mehldau's new album, he alternates keyboard works by J.S. Bach with his own jazz-inflected explorations. Michael Wilson/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Brad Mehldau (left) and Chris Thile (right) have released a new self-titled duo album. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
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A still from Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau's live "The Old Shade Tree" video. YouTube hide caption
Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau's forthcoming, self-titled album is on World Cafe's radar for 2017. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
The Fred Hersch Trio performs at Blue Note Beijing on Oct. 28, 2016. Zhang Dongdong hide caption
Brad Mehldau's latest covers project, Where Do You Start, came out Tuesday. Michael Wilson/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Wayne Shorter's 2003 album Alegria finds the saxophonist and composer matching his quartet with orchestral textures. Thomas Dorn/Verve Records hide caption
William Claxton's cover photo of Sonny Rollins standing in the desert — sporting a cowboy hat, gun holster and humorously knowing look — has only added to Way Out West's classic status. William Claxton hide caption
American-bred, U.K.-based Stacey Kent eschews jazz standards to sing in French. Courtesy of Blue Note hide caption
Ringo Starr's gold-plated snare drum will be on display at New York's Metropolitan Museum until December. Express Newspapers/Hulton Archive hide caption
Pianist Kris Davis has a delicate yet searching touch on Paradoxical Frog, a trio record with Tyshawn Sorey and Ingrid Laubrock. EyeShotJazz hide caption
On Highway Rider, Brad Mehldau (pictured) and producer Jon Brion reunite for the first time since 2002's Largo. August Quirk hide caption
