“It is tempting to play up the “Italian Connection” on Joey’s newest record. With Joey’s previous nod toward the Goodfellas it would easy to claim [More]
Combustication is the fifth major album by experimental jazz fusion trio Medeski Martin & Wood, released on August 11, 1998. Combustication was MMW’s first album [More]
The Jazz Workshop is the debut album by jazz composer George Russell, featuring his “Smalltet”, which included Art Farmer, Hal McKusick, Barry Galbraith, and Bill [More]
The Individualism of Gil Evans is an album by pianist, conductor, arranger and composer Gil Evans originally released on the Verve label in 1964. It [More]
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The Spoiler is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label in 1966 and performed by Turrentine with Blue Mitchell, [More]
“Willie “The Lion” Smith, one of stride piano’s Big Three of the 1920s (along with James P. Johnson and Fats Waller), recorded a lot less [More]
“Although he has appeared on a countless number of studio sessions, this release was (with the exception of an obscure Japanese date in 1984) drummer [More]
Jazz Has a Sense of Humor is the last-recorded studio album by jazz pianist Horace Silver, released on the Verve label in 1998. “This is [More]
“Connelly’s performance on the album was very good, starting with the opening track “That Old Black Magic”. Although the dramatic signature Billy Daniels rendition had [More]
Four for Trane is a studio album by tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp released on Impulse! Records in 1965. Four of the five tracks were composed [More]