Ana relies more on classical music than Ralph Towner's previous albums. While Towner isn't entirely
successful in melding classical, jazz and new age -- he frequently meanders -- several sections of Ana are as lovely and hypnotic as anything else ...
Another fine Webster release on Verve that sees the tenor great once again backed by
the deluxe Oscar Peterson Trio. In keeping with the high standard of their Soulville collaboration of two years prior, Webster and the trio -- Peterson ...
Blues in Orbit lacks the intellectual cache of the suites and concept pieces that loomed
large in Ellington's recordings of this period, but it's an album worth tracking down, if only to hear the band run through a lighter side ...
In 1945, during a residency at Boston's Savoy Café that resulted in a series of
radio broadcasts, soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet tried his best to form a New Orleans jazz band. Bechet's band originally had Bunk Johnson on trumpet, pianist ...
Confessin' compiles two separate studio dates recorded on May 27, 1954, and April 24, 1958,
under the leadership of legendary tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins. The Chicago 1954 session brings together an unknown combo consisting of organ, piano, guitar, and bass; ...
Delmark's 50 Years of Jazz and Blues is a decent budget-priced 28-cut retrospective highlighting the
types of jazz the Chicago label has championed since its beginning in 1953, from Dixieland, bop, and free jazz to modern experimental. Not only does ...
Surprisingly enough this 1963 LP was the first time (other than a couple songs) that
Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie recorded together. (The match-up was so logical that it would be repeated many times over the next 20 years.) Fitzgerald ...
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