Best of Jazz

Where should you begin your next jazz discovery? May delivered a remarkable collection of albums, each proposing its own way of listening. Whether through reinvention, collective exploration, fragmented memories, or deeply human forms of connection, these records remind us that jazz remains one of the most fertile spaces for imagination and surprise.

Here is our New Jazz Releases selection for May 2026, featuring albums genuinely worth your listening time, presented in order of their release dates.