This may be Freddie Hubbard's finest moment as a leader in that it embodies and utilizes all of his strengths as a composer, soloist, and frontman. On Red Clay, Hubbard [more]

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Tommy Dorsey & His Orch.: A Little White Lighthouse; I Can Dream, Can't I; The One [more]

The last great trumpeter to emerge from New Orleans in the 1920s, Henry "Red" Allen followed such masters as Freddie Keppard, King Oliver and [more]

If you remember the movie The Sting starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman then you must remember the music, the [more]

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

In his first album for Warner Bros., Vince Guaraldi serves up another delightful, though pitifully short (27 minutes) helping of his themes for the {#Peanuts} TV specials. By this [more]

When Get Up with It was released in 1974, critics -- let alone fans -- had a tough time with it. The package was a -- by then customary -- double LP, with sessions ranging from [more]

Merry Jazzmas features 14 classic Christmas songs interpreted by leading jazz vocalists like Marcus Roberts, Vanessa Rubin, Antonio Hart, Roy Hargrove, Hilton Ruiz, Steve Lacy, and Steve Coleman. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide

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]

Concert by the Sea was arguably the finest record pianist Erroll Garner ever made, and he made many -- a few outstanding -- good recordings. But this live recording (September [more]

The title of this Blue Note set, Doin' Allright, fit perfectly at the time, for tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon was making the first of three successful comebacks. Largely neglected [more]

While most of Stan Kenton's recordings in the 1950s tend to be complex and sometimes bombastic, his versions of standards could often be sentimental and very melodic. This LP [more]

Playing piano-style single-note lines on his Hammond B-3 organ, Jimmy Smith revolutionized the use of the instrument in a jazz combo setting in the mid-'50s and early '60s, and arguably [more]

This is a very interesting transitional collection featuring Nat King Cole when he was gradually emphasizing his vocals over his jazz piano playing and phasing out his Trio. [more]

This program is fun, pure and simple. Featured here are 16 Russian folksongs, performed without words by Emil Decameron and his [more]

Simply charming! No, that's not the name of a Cole Porter song, but it could be the title of this wonderful CD featuring the multi-talented Kiri Te [more]

For this CD, Wynton and Ellis Marsalis perform music both old and new that is heard on the {#Peanuts} television specials. Wynton's septet (altoist Wessell [more]

Santa's Top 10 is a collection of popular country and pop singers from the forties, fifties and sixties singing lighter, non-religious Christmas music. Light fare, such as "I Saw [more]

Woody Herman spent his twilight years recording for the Concord label, both with his big band and in all-star groups that he sponsored. For this 1998 sampler CD, Herman [more]