Thirteen years into their tenure, the Dave Brubeck Quartet was still able to mine the creative vein for new means of expression. Despite the hits and popularity on college [more]

Stevie Ray Vaughan's second album, Couldn't Stand the Weather, pretty much did everything a second album should do: it confirmed that the [more]

Chances are that when Andy Williams released his first holiday album in 1963, he had no idea that his name would soon become synonymous with Christmas. The success of the album [more]

This is a compilation of Leonard Bernstein's music for the theater drawn from a variety of sources, mostly cast albums. To wit, there are two songs from the [more]

Taj Mahal's debut album was a startling statement in its time and has held up remarkably well. Recorded in August of 1967, it was as hard and exciting a mix of old and new blues sounds as [more]

The lineup of 16 Most Requested Songs of Christmas is a little uneven, vascillating between the sublime and the merely adequate, but the best moments of the [more]

Michel Camilo was one of the most stimulating jazz pianists to emerge in the mid- to late '80s. His powerful two-handed attack (full of impressive technical skills), his knowledge of [more]

Claude Bolling has long been a versatile pianist, arranger-composer and bandleader. Born in Cannes, France, on [more]

Live at Carnegie Hall captures Stevie Ray Vaughan on the supporting tour for his second album, 1984's Couldn't Stand the Weather. The Carnegie Hall [more]

After George Coleman left the Miles Davis Quintet, tenor saxophonist Sam Rivers took his place for a short period including a tour of Japan. Davis did not care for Rivers' [more]

{+Camelot}, a musical based on the Arthurian legend, reunited most of the creative talent that produced {+My Fair Lady}, including lyricist/librettist Alan [more]

{+Kiss Me, Kate} was the most successful Broadway musical of Cole Porter's career, much to his and everyone else's surprise. Porter was thought to be [more]

Only five days after The Quintet concerts in California, V.S.O.P. was caught live again on tape in Tokyo's Den-En Colosseum for another Japanese CBS/Sony release. [more]

One of Stephen Sondheim's better-known works, A Little Night Music is inspired by the Ingmar Bergman film {#Smiles of a Summer Night}. The story [more]