King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopaters – West End Blues (1928) Joe “King” Oliver – cornet, bandleader
“Stormy Weather” is a 1933 song written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler. Ethel Waters first sang it at The Cotton Club night club in [More]
This studio session finds the great Hawkins playing as part of a five-piece sax section. Actually the other saxophonists and part of the rhythm section [More]
Chicago jazz pianist John Wright earned his reputation with a string of LPs for the Prestige label in the early 60s—his 1960 debut made such [More]
“Dreamin'” (Marcus Miller). From the album “George Benson / Earl Klugh ‎– Collaboration” (1987). Personnel: George Benson – guitar Earl Klugh – guitar
“St. Thomas” became popular when it was released on Rollins’s 1956 album Saxophone Colossus Personnel: Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone Kenny Drew – piano Niels-Henning [More]
Ballads for Two is an album by trumpeter Chet Baker and vibraphonist Wolfgang Lackerschmid which was recorded in 1979 and first released on the Lackerschmid’s [More]
Half Moon Bay is a live album by jazz pianist Bill Evans with Eddie Gómez and Marty Morell recorded at the Bach Dancing and Dynamite [More]
Elis & Tom is a bossa nova album, released in 1974, recorded by Brazilian singer Elis Regina and singer-songwriter Antônio Carlos Jobim. Recorded over a [More]
Now’s the Time is an album by organist Shirley Scott compiling several tracks recorded between 1958 and 1964 and released on the Prestige label in [More]