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Howard Roberts The Magic Band Live at the Donte's Vol. 1 1 All of You (Porter) 13:30 2 Shiny Stockings (Foster) 15:50 3 All Blues (Davi...

A little-known guitarist well worth exploring is Mr. Howard Roberts (1929-1992). A respected educator, co-founder of GIT, studio musician (...

Third and final post dedicated to the late great Freddie Hubbard. Forget his jazz - funk extravaganzas of the 70s; this time it's as str...

This blog laments the passing away of jazz trumpet giant Freddie Hubbard. To this end, some of his most representative recorded works will b...

"Freddie Hubbard's mixture of forward-looking musical ideas and old-fashioned brassiness might be called the essence of the ear...

A few posts back we claimed that this blog is dedicated to lesser-known jazz musicians deserving wider recognition. We'll break this ru...

Trumpeter Lew Soloff (1948 - ) might have cut his musical teeth with jazz-rock band Blood, Sweat & Tears during the late '60s (one...

George Allen Russell (1923 - ), American jazz pianist, composer and theorist, is considered one of the first jazz musicians to contribute to...

Let's turn the clock back a bit and imagine it's 1955. Trumpeter Buck Clayton led a series of exciting studio jam sessions then in t...

In this great solo piano set from 1997 Arvanitas displays in spades what separates the men from the boys. His choice of material is impecca...