Hollywood Swing & Jazz: Hot Numbers from MGM, Warner Brothers & RKO Films collects '30s and '40s film music from three of Hollywood's biggest studios. Louis Armstrong's "Jeepers Creepers," Harry James & His Orchestra's

Serious musicologists could spend hours and hours describing the many different types of percussion in world music. Africa (both Black Africa and Arabic [more]

The 1920s is perhaps the only time when we hear what America was actually singing of its own accord, and since record companies at [more]

To call this collection of tunes from blues legend Buddy Guy definitive is not a stretch by any means, as it is a cohesive, thoughtful, chronological collection that accurately [more]

On this popular two-LP set, singer Carmen McRae interprets songs by Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, Michel Legrand, Warren & Dubin, Henry Mancini and Jimmy Van [more]

She made her name with grooving jump blues novelties like "Fine Brown Frame" and

Brothers Warren and {Allan Vaché} do not play together all that often but they always make a perfect musical team. This 1998 recording, which was reissued in 2007, is fairly [more]

Alison Burns' debut CD on guitarist Martin Taylor's P3 Music label proved to be a striking session for the vocalist, an expressive alto who seemed to find new routes to songs of [more]

As a leader, guitarist, and composer John Scofield has made many different kinds of records over the course of his long career, as well as played on dozens more as a sideman to people [more]

Jackie Ryan is one of the premier jazz singers in North America who the general public is unaware of. Perhaps the release of [more]