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For the original soundtrack of Bolden, in theaters this spring, nine-time GRAMMY Award winner Wynton Marsalis faced a nearly impossible task: bring fellow trumpeter and [More]
From the Pat Metheny album Still Life (Talking) Written-By, Producer – Pat Metheny
“It’s Alright With Me” (Cole Porter). J.J. Johnson – trombone Kai Winding – trombone
Alligator Bogaloo is an album by American jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson recorded for the Blue Note label in 1967 and featuring Donaldson with Melvin Lastie, [More]
Medeski, Martin & Wood are among the busiest acts in the music biz. To celebrate their 20-year anniversary in 2011, the group has been releasing [More]
Inside Straight is a live album by American jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded at the Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California in 1973 featuring performances by [More]
“Donna Lee” is a bebop tune written by Mile Davis. It is written over the same changes as the great standard “Indiana”. Written in 1947, [More]
“Harlem Nocturne” (Earle Hagen, Dick Rogers) . Album:”Swing’s the Thing” (1956). Personnel: Illinois Jacquet – tenor saxophone Roy Eldridge – trumpet Jimmy Jones – piano [More]
Dizzy Atmosphere is an album featuring members of Dizzy Gillespie’s Orchestra recorded in 1957 and released on the Specialty label. Scott Yanow, writing for Allmusic, [More]
From the album “Jazz Giant” “Jazz Giant” is an album by saxophonist Benny Carter recorded in 1957 and 1958 and released on the Contemporary label. [More]