2020. Unreleased for many years, here is the famous Chet Baker's concert in Cologne in October 1955 featuring pianist Dick Twardzik, bassist Jimmy Bond and drummer Pete Littman, plus as guests German musicians Hans ..

2019. Tenor saxophonist Eddie Harris is best-known for his composition 'Freedom Jazz Dance,' which Miles Davis brought to prominence in 1966, and for being a pioneer of the electric saxophone, yet his career is long..

2021. Columbus, Ohio's Rudolph Johnson drew comparisons to John Coltrane during his career; like the jazz legend in his later years, Johnson eschewed drugs or alcohol and spent his time every day either meditating a..

2022. Recorded in 1968, the first solo-album by Alice Coltrane gets reissued on vinyl, mastered at 45rpm. She intended it to be a tribute to her husband, John Coltrane, who had died the year before. The players were..

2022. Jimmy Smith was the most inventive and technically skilled organist of the Bop generation. Originally released in 1957, 'A Date With Jimmy Smith' features performances recorded in the same year with Smith hea..

2022. Limited clear vinyl edition of 500 copies! Recorded in 1957 this is one of Charles Mingus's lesser known sessions. Here the master was at the head of an awesome band including some of his regular sidemen, Jimm..

2022. Limited clear vinyl edition of 500 copies! Originally released on Impulse in 1962 'Soul Trombone And The Jazz Clan' was a major statement from one of the great trombone players in American jazz. Here Fuller di..

1987.  - chet baker (fluegelhorn) orchestra conducted by,ella fitzgerald (vocal) with frank devol and his,lou rawls (vocal) orchestra conducted by h.  B.  Ba,vince guaraldi (piano) trio..

2023.  Rsd 2023 release.  The tracks on this album were recorded in 1959 and 1960 with a striking team: gianni basso (tenor sax), oscar valdambrini (trumpet), attilio donadio and glauco masetti (..

2020. Unreleased for many years, here is the famous Chet Baker's concert in Cologne in October 1955 featuring pianist Dick Twardzik, bassist Jimmy Bond and drummer Pete Littman, plus as guests German musicians Hans ..

2008. Recorded by the German WDR radio at the Apollo Theater in Düsseldorf on Monday, March 18, 1960, this session documents a precise step in Coltrane's career. While on tour in Europe with the Miles Davis qui..

2023. During the late 1950s, the iconic tenor saxophonist John Coltrane was exploring different milieus with various associates, most notably reconnecting with Miles Davis during a time when the latter was working w..

2024. Another of the albums that Prestige would issue several years after it was recorded, 'Bahia' is drawn from a couple of sessions that the iconic tenor saxophonist recorded for the label in the late 1950s, durin..

2023. This is tenor sax giant Pharoah Sanders caught live in France in summer 1971, when the man was still in full post-Coltrane mood. At the head of a strong quintet featuring: Lonnie Liston Smith - piano, Cecil Mc..

2001. Bassist/composer Mario Pavone has collaborated with both legendary innovators and today's most respected young musicians to consistently define the cutting edge of jazz for the past 40 years. He has anchored t..

2017. Son of a Mother is the debut CD of tenor saxophonist/composer Jonny Beckett. This record showcases original compositions. Eight of the ten tunes on the CD are composed and arranged by Jonny, who plays tenor s..

1998. On this very first recording of Marzio Scholten he presents himself as a jazz guitarist with a broad approach to jazz. Both in his compositions and improvisations I have associations with different generations..

2016. - Introduction - 0:06 Bonus track on CD reissue,"Tenor Madness" (Sonny Rollins) - 12:29 Bonus track on CD reissue,"Jelly, Jelly" (Billy Eckstine) - 12:47,"Didn't We?" (Jimmy Webb) - 9:08,"Days of Wine and Ros..

2017. In January 2001, Memphis-based keyboard player Al Gamble and his drumming younger brother Chad decided to take advantage of their years of jamming in the family rec room and form a band together. They filled o..

2001. This new recording by internationally acclaimed improvisational music artists pianist Joel Futterman, drummer Alvin Fielder, and reed player Ike Levin represents the first time these three veteran musicans hav..

2011.  Jm-2065-2 (2010) heinz von hermann „lucky thompson & me ” in a great live concert, in a great shape, the formidable saxophone (tenor & baritone) and flute player presents a tribute cd to the genious..

2013. Still riding the success of his triumphant concert at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, Duke Ellington in 1958 decided to reduce his touring orchestra to a nonet dubbed "the Spacemen," and recorded thi..

2013. Billy Price, east coast blue-eyed soul man, has been entertaining audiences for the past four decades. In his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pa., he is an institution. Price's popularity isn't hard to explain. As Geo..

2015. Capturing the groundbreaking Cecil Taylor Unit's second set at the Power Center (Michigan State University in Ann Arbor) on Thursday April 15th, 1976, this exciting set was recorded for broadcast on WCBN-FM's ..

2007. Album Reviews: '...OUSTANDING...one of the year's best releases.' - Richard Ludmerer, BluesWax '...A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH...' - Duke Robillard, Blues Legend '...belongs at the top...HE SWINGS LIK..

2013. The numbers heard on Chet Baker & Crew were among a prolific flurry of recordings Baker was involved in during the last week of July 1956 - fresh from an extended European stay. The crew on these sides inc..

2020. The first release on Black Jazz was by pianist and label producer Gene Russell; for the label's second release, Russell chose another piano man of impeccable taste, Walter Bishop, Jr. But while much of Russell..

2017. King Alex Littlejohn is one of the greatest pure blues singers performing today. Born in 1934, he was raised in Faraday, Louisiana where he was childhood friends with Jerry Lee Lewis, Mickey Gilley, and Jimmy ..

1986. Musicians Chieli Minucci.......electric and acoustic guitars, keyboards, drums and bass programming David Mann.......soprano and tenor saxophones Jerry Brooks....bass Fernando Saunders.....fretless bass, v..

1985. Musicians Chieli Minucci.......Pensa-Suhr and Hohner electric guitars, Scharpach acoustic guitar, Gibson 1970 SG electric guitar, Orozco classical guitar, Gibson Chet Atkins electric/acoustic guitar, Ovatio..

1989. Musicians Chieli Minucci.......electric and acoustic guitars, keyboards, drums and bass programming Jerry Brooks....bass Dave Anderson.....fretless bass Steve Skinner.......drum programming, keyboards, syn..

1983. 1. Stars In Your Eyes (Chieli Minucci, Emanuel Kallins) 2. Got It Goin' On 3. Good Times Ahead 4. Love Is Always Young (Ulpio Minucci, Mark Roberts) 5. Chic 6. Deeper Than Deep 7. Destin..

2019. Here's a vinyl reissue of 'Back At The Chicken Shack'. Recorded in 1960 and released by Blue Note in 1963, this is one of organist Jimmy Smith's classic sessions. The release also drew attention to tenor saxop..

2019. After recording six albums as a leader for the Prestige label between 1959 and 1961 (with such outstanding musicians as Kenny Dorham, Johnny Smith, Eric Dolphy, Roy Haynes, King Curtis and Jimmy Forrest), Nels..

2012. “Simply stunning…everything a record should be, inventive, truthful, filled with power and an absolutely exceptional level of musicianship” – Southland Blues Magazine “The French ambassador of American Blue..