White Christmas; The Christmas Song; Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas; The Little Drummer Boy; Rudolph the [more]

A Salute to the Big Band Masters. Powerhouse salute to big-band masters. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music Guide

For this quartet date with pianist Cedar Walton, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Billy Higgins (trumpeter Freddie Hubbard sits in on two numbers), Turrentine is in top form on [more]

A gift from heaven is the only adequate way of describing this superb double-CD set, which comes in a slip-case with a neat little booklet. It is the definitive Al Kooper [more]

The concept of the big band era was to swing, it didn't matter who it was, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Duke [more]

The beautiful, ethereal sound of the harp is wonderfully captured on this new disc featuring harpist Susan Drake playing Romantic Harp Music of the 19th [more]

This sampler CD has 11 ballads taken from the Muse catalog that the 32 Jazz label acquired in the mid-1990s. Unfortunately, the liner notes are sparse and the [more]

This is an OK sampler celebrating both singer Rosemary Clooney's 70th birthday and her 20th year associated with the Concord label. Only two of the 19 songs [more]

An old adage has it that good music enters the ear with ease and leaves it with great difficulty. Celtic music fulfills this criterion [more]

Simply put, this is another of Sony Legacy's three-pack deals. In these Collections, they place three well-known albums by a major artist in [more]

Paddle Your Own Canoe; Canadian Sleigh Song; Le Grand Seigneur; Andalouse; A Maiden's Heart; I Cannot Sing Tonight; We Dye to Live; Lacrosse, Our National [more]

Blue Bacharach: A Cooler Shaker features Blue Note interpreting Bacharach standards like "Always Something There to Remind Me," "I Say a Little Prayer," and

This budget-priced four-disc set compiles four previously released CDs, all of them recorded live during the various traditional music [more]

To commemorate the end of the century, Sony Music assembled the gargantuan 26-disc box set Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack for a Century. The title [more]

Of all the recording sessions completed by Miles Davis with his various bands, the sessions surrounding In a Silent Way Sessions in 1968 and 1969 are easily the most [more]

A host of contemporary jazz stars fills this excellent compilation of traditional holiday music with smooth jazz inflections; jazzy vocals; and [more]

Altoist Paul Desmond and baritonist Gerry Mulligan always made for a perfect team during their infrequent collaborations. Both of the saxophonists had immediately [more]

A little brief at under 45 minutes, Come on-a My House: The Very Best of Rosemary Clooney includes most of the best of Clooney's Columbia [more]

The War, directed by Ken Burns, was a seven-part documentary series broadcast on PBS television in 2007, focusing on the experiences of American [more]