Serenade to a Bus Seat is an album by American jazz trumpeter Clark Terry recorded in 1957 for the Riverside label. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album stars and stated “This set contains [More]
Basically Duke is an album by bassist/cellist and composer Oscar Pettiford which was recorded in 1954 and first issued on the Bethlehem label as a 10-inch LP. Track listing: All compositions by Oscar Pettiford except [More]
The Dissection and Reconstruction of Music From the Past as Performed By the Inmates of Lalo Schifrin’s Demented Ensemble as a Tribute to the Memory of the Marquis De Sade is a 1966 studio album [More]
The Centaur and the Phoenix is an album by multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef recorded in 1960 and released on the Riverside label. AllMusic Review by Stacia Proefrock: From his first explosion of recordings in the mid-’50s, [More]
Jazz for the Jet Set is an album by American jazz vibraphonist Dave Pike which was recorded in 1965 for the Atlantic label. AllMusic Review by Scott Yanow: This disc is a bit unusual in [More]
AllMusic Review by Ken Dryden: Pianist Dick Hyman wrote the arrangements for this Brazilian-flavored date, which has a fair amount of other high caliber jazz talent: flugelhornists Clark Terry and Joe Wilder, Phil Bodner on [More]
Big Band Bossa Nova is a 1962 bossa nova album by American impresario, jazz composer, trumpeter, arranger and record producer Quincy Jones and his band. It features the popular number “Soul Bossa Nova.” The title [More]
Cookin’ is an album recorded in 1957 by Paul Gonsalves. The album was rereleased on CD in 2008 with bonus tracks from Clark Terry’s Out on a Limb with Clark Terry (Argo, 1957) and The [More]
After Hours with Miss “D” is a 1954 studio album by Dinah Washington. The 2004 CD reissue included an extended take of “Blue Skies”. AllMusic Review by John Bush: Any self-respecting jazz musician would leap [More]
