The Big Challenge is an album by trumpeter Cootie Williams and cornetist Rex Stewart that was recorded in 1957 and released on the Jazztone label. [More]
“Dexter Gordon is a legendary figure in jazz for many reasons. He was among the first to transfer the characteristics and style of bebop innovator [More]
Dinah! is a 1956 album by jazz singer Dinah Washington released on the EmArcy label. “One of many fine EmArcy titles Dinah Washington recorded in [More]
“Harry Babasin was (along with Oscar Pettiford) probably the first bassist to play jazz cello. This LP reissue of a set originally for the MOD [More]
“It took me 40 years to get up the courage to make this album,” he recently said by phone from his home in New York [More]
Miles in Paris is a live album by Miles Davis recorded at the Paris Jazz Festival on November 3, 1989. The album includes a cover [More]
“Vibraphonist Cal Tjader is heard leading five different groups throughout this set, but the identities of the flutists, bassists, and pianists are less important than [More]
Great Jazz Standards is an album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans recorded in 1959 by Evans with an orchestra featuring Johnny [More]
“Harold McKinney was one of Detroit’s jazz legends as both an artist and as a cultural figure. His Voices and Rhythms of the Creative Profile [More]
Track listing: Careless love 0:00 Please don’t talk about me when I’m gone 4:39 Bugle call rag 7:34 Black and blue 12:50 When a woman [More]