AllMusic reviewer Scott Yanow awarded the album four and half stars, stating:”Don Byas was one of the great tenor saxophonists of the 1940s, a Coleman [More]
During the 1923–1924 period, Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra emerged as the premiere African American big band in New York. This era marked a transition [More]
Blues A-Plenty is an album recorded by American jazz saxophonist Johnny Hodges featuring performances recorded in 1958 and released on the Verve label. It is [More]
🎶I’ll Never Smile Again🎶 is a jazz and pop standard written in 1939 by Canadian songwriter Ruth Lowe. Ruth Lowe personally presented the song to [More]
Walter Sylvester Page (February 9, 1900 – December 20, 1957) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist and bandleader, best known for his groundbreaking work as a [More]
“”Labor of love” is the inevitable phrase to describe this album on which composer/conductor/arrangers Quincy Jones and Sammy Nestico, both of whom wrote for Count [More]
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