"Throughout its history jazz has been in fashion and out of it – but it's never gone away.
Jazz is at its heart Black American music, but it has spawned sub-genres the world over from Nordic jazz to Afro-jazz. Right now, the UK scene is riding high with torchbearers Ezra Collective achieving a level of success previously thought impossible for a UK jazz act – winning the Mercury Prize, headlining Wembley Arena and now adding a Brit Award to their successes.
The current crop of artists leading the jazz scene globally are all indebted to the classics that have shaped them. Any list of ten will leave someone shouting, "what about…", but not everything can make the cut! These ten records have shifted the dial in some way and in many cases sound as fresh as the day they were recorded."
