“If you’re ever going to make just one hard-driving, swinging-like-mad big-band recording, model it after Caution! Men Swinging. That was to be the destiny of [More]
“Bright Mississippi” by Thelonious Monk. Personnel: Claire Daly – baritone saxophone Philip Johnston – soprano saxophone Jackson Harrison – piano Jonathan Zwartz – bass James [More]
Most Much! is an album by saxophonist Jimmy Forrest recorded in 1961 and released on the Prestige label. “Jimmy Forrest was a very consistent tenor, [More]
“Black Rain” (FESTEN). Personnel: Jean Kapsa – piano Damien Fleau – tenor saxophone Maxime Fleau – drums Oliver Degabriele – bass
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Pangaea is a live album by American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Miles Davis. It was originally released as a double album in 1976 by [More]
“Marian McPartland first began recording jazz in the late ’40s, but it is unfortunate that many of her LPs from the late ’50s and early [More]
Mr. Billy Higgins is an album by American jazz drummer Billy Higgins recorded in 1984 and first released on the Riza label. The Allmusic review [More]
Fénix is an album by Argentinian jazz composer and saxophonist Gato Barbieri featuring performances recorded in 1971 and first released on the Flying Dutchman label. [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 [More]
“After a few years in Pat Metheny’s wake in the 1980s, Austria’s Wolfgang Muthspiel became an excellent jazz guitarist with his own take on the [More]