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Rip, Rig and Panic is a 1965 jazz album by multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk. It features a quartet of Kirk, Jaki Byard (piano), Richard Davis (bass), [More]
Parisian Sketches is an album by American jazz drummer Max Roach recorded in Paris in 1960 and released on the Mercury label. Track listing: All [More]
Abstract is an album by Jamaican saxophonist Joe Harriott, recorded in England in November 1961 and May 1962, and released on the Columbia (UK) label [More]
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars and stated ” Farlow is heard in his early prime. Thirty-two at the time, [More]
Although Toots Thielemans (originally best-known as a guitarist) had recorded on harmonica as early as 1950 and had led several sessions in Europe (and six [More]
This is a fine all-around set for pianist Marian McPartland. With the assistance of bassist Steve LaSpina and drummer Jake Hanna, McPartland interprets seven standards [More]
Claudio! is an album by Brazilian trumpeter Claudio Roditi which was recorded in 1985 and released by the Uptown label. On AllMusic Scott Yanow states, [More]
Coast Concert/Jazz Ultimate collects two of Bobby Hackett’s mid-’50s albums on one CD. Coast Concert from 1955 features Hackett live with old friend Jack Teagarden on a selection of [More]
Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington, also known as Thelonious Monk Plays the Music of Duke Ellington, is an album by American jazz pianist Thelonious Monk [More]
He’s Coming captures Roy Ayers at the absolute top of his game, masterminding jazz-funk grooves as taut as a tightrope. Profoundly inspired by the Broadway [More]