Exploring vintage jazz vinyl with a focus on label and pressing details, discographical information and critical musings on the music found within the grooves.
A stellar 1957 quartet date that is as good as anything Rollins put out before his "retirement" in 1959. It's an album that only gets better with repeated listens as it shows off his complete mastery of the tenor.
Read MoreAn impromptu live set resulted in an excellent and exciting early hard bop session that featured some of the finest jazz musicians of the day, including the members of the Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet along with Harold Land, Clark Terry, Maynard Ferguson and Dinah Washington,
Read MoreMilt Jackson teams up with Ray Brown once again in the late-1960s, this time in a big band setting led by Brown to create an underrated album of funky and soulful jazz that will appeal to both fans of modern jazz and rare groove collectors alike.
Read MoreThelonious Monk's second album for Columbia is full of joyous playing and an ever-growing connection between the jazz master and his new quartet.
Read MoreA re-release of an LP from 1959, Cannonball & Coltrane finds the two legendary players teaming up at a time when they were both part of the Miles Davis Sextet. The result is an exciting and historical example of late '50s hard bop at it's very best.
Read MoreLonely Woman is the last of a string of classic studio records from The Modern Jazz Quartet, a record that shows off the group's talents as both composers and outstanding musical talents.
Read MoreThelonious Monk shows off his new quartet (featuring the great Charlie Rouse) on his Columbia Records debut, an album that left little doubt that the legendary talent still had much to offer the jazz world as it moved into the 1960s.
Read MoreAfrican Cookbook is the 1973 commercial release of an album Randy Weston recorded in 1964 that he originally had to release on his own due to a lack of interest from any record labels. It's an excellent advanced hard bop LP that shows off the full range of Weston's musicianship, compositional skills, and talent as a bandleader.
Read MoreRoy Haynes steps out of his usual role as a master sideman to lead an exciting and adventurous session that features the outsized talents of Roland Kirk. It's an under-appreciated gem of a record from jazz's golden age that also showcases the playing of Tommy Flanagan and Henry Grimes.
Read MoreTwo jazz masters meet up for their yearly gig at Shelly's Manne-Hole where they explore the modern jazz styles that they helped to popularize.
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