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Songs for Hip Lovers is a 1957 vocal album by the jazz bandleader Woody Herman, arranged by Marty Paich. Ken Dryden reviewed the album for [More]

Satch and Josh is a 1974 album by Oscar Peterson and Count Basie. “Producer Norman Granz occasionally got carried away with the quantity of his [More]

Far East Suite is a 1967 concept album by  Duke Ellington, inspired by his group’s tour of Asia. Ellington and longtime collaborator Billy Strayhorn wrote [More]

Track listing: 00:00 Slumming on Park Avenue (Remastered 2014) 02:59 Coquette (Remastered 2014) 06:07 The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down (Remastered 2014) 08:55 Ragging the Scale (Remastered [More]

Billed as a Jazz at the Philharmonic performance, this concert consists of two intimate sets: the first showcases Roy Eldridge leading an All Star sextet, [More]

It’s 1938 band that was recreated in stereo in 1968 by Capitol Records, with Shaw conducting and producing, though not playing. Shaw’s clarinet part is [More]

Lester Young recorded for the Aladdin label between December 1945 and December 1947, leading a series of small groups that would range in size from [More]

“In February 1958 Stanley Dance oversaw two recording sessions headed up by Coleman Hawkins. By this point in his long and eventful career, Hawkins was [More]

“Willie “The Lion” Smith, one of stride piano’s Big Three of the 1920s (along with James P. Johnson and Fats Waller), recorded a lot less [More]

“An excellent swing clarinetist who was flexible enough to play hot on Dixieland records, Marsala’s six sessions reflect his versatile musical tastes. Among his more [More]