Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller only worked together twice, briefly in 1925 in Erskine Tate's band and four years later in the New York [more]

To commemorate the end of the century, Sony Music assembled the gargantuan 26-disc box set Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack for a Century. The title [more]

Trumpeter Marvin Stamm, rather than drag out the usual bebop standards, mostly introduces new material on his CD. Four songs are played by Berg's quartet with pianist Bill Charlap, [more]

A gift from heaven is the only adequate way of describing this superb double-CD set, which comes in a slip-case with a neat little booklet. It is the definitive Al Kooper [more]

In conjunction with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns' ten-part 2000 PBS special, Columbia/Legacy and Verve teamed up to issue a special series of [more]

A pretty straightforward collection of Gnawa works. The Altaf Gnawa Group isn't of the same notoriety as other bands and individuals from the tradition (such as Sidi [more]

Every duet album by pianist Dick Hyman and cornetist Ruby Braff is magical. The pair of distinctive musicians always seem to react immediately to each other and they [more]

The multi-award-winning Rodgers & Hammerstein musical {+South Pacific} had been languishing in obscurity until its Lincoln Center revival in 2009. [more]

It's the music of the great Baden Powell given full-band treatments (not just his work, but also compositions he wrote with {Vinícius de Moraes} and {Paulo [more]

As on his recording Requiem, dedicated to his longtime friend and pianist Kenny Kirkland, Branford Marsalis dedicates this recording to his mentors, friends, and jazz [more]