Ravi's African Kora: Journeys of the Sunwalker showcases the sounds of the kora, a West African harp/lute hybrid. Its graceful, evocative tones are similar to the [more]

After the success of Song for My Father and its hit title cut, Horace Silver was moved to pay further tribute to his dad, not to mention connect with [more]

Duke Ellington was so brilliant as a bandleader, arranger and composer that sometimes his piano playing was taken for granted. He gave few [more]

Though it includes just one track originally released on Blue Note (Kenny Dorham's "Afrodisia"), Latino Blue is a superb collection of Latin jazz spanning the late '50s to the late [more]

Teo Macero’s work as a record producer (particularly his projects with Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk) is well-known. He has also been a distinctive [more]

During his 21-year recording career, Thomas "Fats" Waller waxed so many hundreds of songs that only a dedicated few have heard them all even once, let alone often [more]

South African chromatic harmonicist and pianist Adam Glasser has a foot firmly planted in his native Johannesburg, and the other in the modern mainstream of American jazz. While Toots [more]

Cape Town Flowers is an enchanting effort from Abdullah Ibrahim, finding the pianist in a trio setting performing 11 original compositions. With the exception of the [more]

Jon Raskin's group of improvising musicians performs music on this CD that sounds very spontaneous even when in some cases it is thoroughly composed. It is often difficult to tell [more]

Because this second album by the former New York Yankee outfielder was released a month before the passing of NBA Star-turned-popular jazz bassist Wayman Tisdale, there are bound [more]