“On my way to Harlem” (Gregory Porter). Personnel: Gregory Porter – vocals The Metropole Orchestra – conducted by, Jules Buckley ______________________________________ Recorded: December 2012 Recording [More]
“Floating, the remarkable new album by the Fred Hersch Trio, brings the pianist back into forbidding territory. After a run of lightning-in-a-bottle live albums, he [More]
Your Number Please is an album by Julie London, released by Liberty Records under catalog number LRP 3130. It was arranged and conducted by André [More]
“The mysterious bassist Henry Grimes, who disappeared altogether in 1967, only led this one recording session; it has been reissued on CD. Although Grimes played [More]
Ellington called these concerts (Sacred Concert) “the most important thing I have ever done”. He said many times that he was not trying to compose [More]
Track listing: 1 Brother John’s Blues 5:00 2 Nancy (With The Laughing Face) 4:25 3 Duke’s In Bed 2:59 4 What’s I’m Gotchere 4:36 5 [More]
“The Awakening’s jazz – hard bop with side-trips into soul jazz, plus some free-jazz tonal expressionism. The Chicago-based jazz sextet known as The Awakening was [More]
Track listing: 1 Bridges (Travessia) 4:12 Featuring – Milton Nascimento 2 If You Went Away (Preciso Aprender A Ser Só) 4:22 3 Triste 3:55 Featuring [More]
“Charles Thomas influenced a number of important hard bop pianists who lived in Memphis, including James Williams, Donald Brown, and Mulgrew Miller, but he made [More]
“Not content to merely be an expert pianist, bassist and drummer, Don Thompson sticks exclusively to vibes on this CD reissue; he is one of [More]