all that jazz

Have fun and enjoy the music. This effort is made purely out of love for the music, and as jazz lends itself to discussion so nicely don...

Phil Woods in a very unusual setting. This is a sort of a cult LP lovingly transferred to digital with top notch equipment. Tracklisting...

This blog laments the loss of Joe Sample (1939-2014) on Sept 12. Sample, a master musician, was co-founder of The Jazz Crusaders, a hard b...

One of the most important movements in the late ‘40s and early 50’s jazz, was the conscious effort of well-schooled, classically inform...

Here's Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Orvieto, Italy, on July 22, 1976. It is indeed touching that...

For the making of this rare, out-of-print gem from 1992 some stellar performers gathered in NYC to celebrate the time-honored habit of t...

"What's New?" is a 1939 popular song composed by Bob Haggart , with lyrics by Johnny Burke . It was originally an instru...

Nice twofer containing early Hampton Hawes live & studio work having appeared before mostly on the Xanadu label.  CD-1: Live Sessi...

Art Ford's Jazz Party, was a TV series featuring jazz musicians on WNTA-TV in New York City, and which aired on Thursdays at 9pm ET...

Coleman Hawkins performing Lover Man in the company of Johnny Guaneri on piano, Milt Hinton on bass, Barry Galbraith on guitar and Cozy C...