“Some Of These Days,” which was recorded with a small jazz group, has solos by guitarist Eddie Lang, trumpeter Max Connett, and Frankie Trumbauer (the master of the C-melody sax) but is most notable for including Bing Crosby’s greatest scat solo and for showing today’s listeners ju...
'It seems such a short step from 2016, when Keith Jarrett recorded these two double albums towards the end of his European tour, to his shock announcement last month that he has been forced to retire from jazz. The recorded evidence here reveals the creative spirit burning as strongly as ...
Arguably one of thegreatest of all jazz albumsis Davis’s seminal Kind Of Blue recorded in 1959, but before that came Milestones in 1958. Somewhat overshadowed by Kind Of Blue, the earlier recording is still a great jazz record, and gets a place on our list of best jazz trumpet albums f...
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In the meantime, these jazz albums are essential for anyone looking to start a collection, or to go beyond classics they already know. 81: Frank Sinatra: Sinatra at the Sands (Reprise) Sinatra At The Sandswas recorded at a time when long-haired pop and rock groups – epitomized by The ...
The label exists primarily to produce luxury vinyl reissues of famous jazz albums, but they also release their remastered wares on CD and digital, so it's possible to stream them, and they get a lot of notice. This collects albums recorded for' Contemporary: Way Out West (1957) and Sonny...
Guitarist Bill Frisell had a pretty amazing 2018, having recorded an album with both of his longtime collaborators Lucinda Williams and Charles Lloyd on the excellentVanished Gardens, in addition to his role on the greatChange in the AirLP by trumpet player Cuong Vu, and even his first purely...