It is also considered by many to be one of the best vocal jazz releases of all time.

The very best young jazz musicians would now come to Los Angeles for instruction, university officials said.

Yet at the same time the quartet did what the best jazz groups do: render material neutral, if not irrelevant.

She is funny, swinging and, convincingly, the best jazz singer performing today.

New Yorkers like to mention casually, as if it were painfully evident, that we have the best jazz in the world.

It continues to offer some of the best British jazz nightly and at Sunday lunchtime.

Linley Hamilton eases you into a new week with a selection of the best contemporary jazz.

I had inherited Rodolfo's collection of the best Western jazz, and she enjoyed them.

There's a comfortable, arty atmosphere, free wi-fi and the city's best live jazz from 9pm to midnight.

The result is neither ingratiating music nor particularly iconoclastic, just serious and directed, and some of the best live jazz around now.