Released in partnership with the Nat King Cole estate, Resonance Records’ HITTIN’ THE RAMP: THE EARLY YEARS (1936-1943) is the first large-scale collection of the pivotal early recordings (1936-1943) of Nat’s 29-year recording career. Most [More]
Chick Corea has been one of the most significant jazzmen since the ’60s. He was one of the top stylists to emerge after Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner. Corea has composed several jazz standards, including [More]
Buddy Bolden’s Band 1905 (Photo Hogan Jazz Archives). Kid Ory’s Woodland Band 1905 (Photo Hogan Jazz Archives). Original Creole Orchestra (Photo Hogan Jazz Archives). Original Dixieland Jazz Band, 1916 (Photo Hogan Jazz Archives). Fate Marable’s [More]
“Most people who don’t know jazz can probably recognize the name of one of the genre’s best singers: Ella Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald is one of the eight women at the center of this season of NPR [More]
Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions is the first official release of previously-unissued Eric Dolphy studio recordings in over 30 years! This release contains the masterpiece albums Conversations and Iron Man recorded [More]
Evans in England is a newly-discovered recording of the Bill Evans Trio featuring bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Marty Morell captured live at the legendary Ronnie Scott’s jazz club in London, England in December of [More]
JazzTimes’ critics choose the top 40 new albums and top 10 historical releases of the year. 1. Wayne Shorter – Emanon (Blue Note). 2. Ambrose Akinmusire “Origami Harvest” (Blue Note). 3. Myra Melford’s “Snowy Egret [More]
Personnel: Jack Teagarden and his Orchestra: Carl Garvin, Charlie Spivak, Alex Fila – trumpet Mark Bennett, Jose Gutierrez, Red Bone – trombone Art St. John, John Van Eps, Ernie Caceres, Clint Garvin, Hub Little – [More]
Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis – The Great Guitars (with Pat Metheny & Jim Hall. Season One, 2006 ep. 03) – My Funny Valentine – So May It Secretly Begin – All The Things [More]