Italians love song. No revelation there; that's like saying water is wet.
The immensely seductive Italian tenor Sergio Franchi is credited as being [more]

Upon its first release Beauty and the Beat! was billed as a live recording from a Miami convention of disc jockeys. Though Peggy Lee and George Shearing did in fact [more]

Chet Baker's star rose rapidly during the 1950s and this CD marks the initial release of his earliest recorded concert as a leader, recorded at a 1953 [more]

This compilation of live concert and studio recordings in Hamburg, Orlando, and NYC from the Nagel-Heyer catalogue features the more balladic side [more]

By 1983, the only original member remaining from the first Great Jazz Trio was pianist Hank Jones, though this CD is the best overall among the many put out under the group's [more]

Combining songs from two 1966 ABC-Paramount LPs (Unforgettable Songs by Johnny Hartman and side two of I Love Everybody) onto one CD, the Impulse! label presents this smooth-voiced [more]

This is a unique and unusual set. Two of jazz's greatest vocalists, Carmen McRae and Betty Carter, had only sung together on [more]

This septet date features Eric Reed playing original material with a band that includes trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, trumpeter Marcus Printup, and alto saxophonist Wessell Anderson, among [more]

The early '50s saw Chet Baker honing his talents on the trumpet, plying his craft in hard bop and cool jazz. Singing was not yet his forté, but playing with strings, as he does [more]

Two decades on from his debut LP, Webb Wilder continues to work hard, rock hard, grow big, and wear glasses 'cause he needs 'em, and More Like Me, his first album in four years, finds [more]

David "Fathead" Newman's final recording session took place just a few weeks before his death from pancreatic cancer. Although he obviously doesn't exhibit the power heard on his [more]

This new collection of Bill Evans playing standards is culled from his Riverside catalog. The first half concentrates on the first and greatest Bill Evans Trio with drummer Paul [more]