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Guitarist-composer Roberto Menescal is one of the bossa nova’s pioneers. Though his songs were recorded by other artists years earlier, his first leadership album, A [More]
A sublime solo set from the great Joe Sample – a set recorded right at a time when his work with The Crusaders was breaking [More]
Official visualizer for “Wave” by Antônio Carlos Jobim. Verve Records.
Echoes of an Era is an album by American R&B/jazz singer Chaka Khan, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White, released [More]
Their collaboration has been hailed as a summit meeting of two jazz masters. Enrico Rava, trumpeter from Trieste, and Fred Hersch, pianist from Cincinnati, share [More]
“Although this quartet date is billed as featuring George Jenkins “and His All Stars”, only tenor saxophonist Plas Johnson is remembered today. With pianist Ray [More]
Go Happy Lucky (Bill Frisell) from an album The News (ECM, 2021). “The new album from the quartet led by one of jazz’s innovators, drummer [More]
How Insensitive is a bossa nova and jazz standard song composed by Brazilian musician Antônio Carlos Jobim. The lyrics were written in Portuguese by Vinícius [More]
Swiss Movement is a soul jazz live album recorded on June 21, 1969 at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland by the Les McCann , [More]
A timeless jazz gem from 1956, this album by the Hal McKusick Octet seamlessly blends cool jazz with chamber music. The ensemble features alto saxophone, [More]