Three-disc anthology that covers various editions of The Messengers from the beginning to the end. It contains such classics as

This is a particularly obscure live set by Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, one not even listed in most discographies. The 1968 edition of Blakey's band was a strong if [more]

Richard Groove Holmes emerged a few years after Jimmy Smith and was soon considered one of his top competitors. He had a hit recording with a [more]

Lambert, Hendricks and Ross made their debut on Columbia in 1959, and this CD contains not only all of the music from their first CBS album, but five titles from two [more]

The immortal vocal jazz group Lambert, Hendricks & Ross recorded five albums during its career: one apiece for Impulse! and World Pacific and three [more]

From his beginnings as a member of the Jazz Crusaders, Hubert Laws has gone full circle as a flutist and tenorman saxman, becoming a force in light classical [more]

The soundtrack to a documentary on the Blue Note label's history, Blue Note: A Story of Modern Jazz also works quite well as a introductory sampler for neophytes. [more]

The Best Blue Note Album in the World Ever may boast a silly title, but it's hard to argue with what's on this double-disc sampler. Not all of the label's [more]

Recorded in early 1960, Them Dirty Blues contains two classic jazz compositions: Nat Adderley's "Work Song" and Bobby Timmons' "Dat Dere," the sequel to "This Here." This was [more]

Although Rhino's four-disc box set, Q: The Musical Biography of Quincy Jones, was released to coincide with Quincy Jones' autobiography, and that's what gives [more]

The lengthy title track on this CD easily overshadows the rest of the program for it is one of the most exciting versions ever recorded of Dizzy [more]

Perhaps the best-known and most loved of Art Blakey's works, The Big Beat is a testament to the creative progress of one of the best jazz drummers of all time. [more]

Composer/conductor and trumpeter Neal Hefti honed his unmistakable swinging Middle of the Road (MOR) style after spending his formative years -- right out of high school -- in the company [more]

This two-LP set combines together two of cornetist Nat Adderley's finest albums: Work Song and That's Right. Both dates have since been reissued separately on CD. The former set [more]

Cannonball Adderley had struggled unsuccessfully with a quintet between 1955 and 1957, giving up for a time to [more]

In conjunction with the release of Ken Burns' ten-part, 19-hour epic PBS documentary {#Jazz}, Columbia issued 22 single-disc compilations devoted to jazz's most significant artists, as [more]

At a 2004 West Coast jazz festival presented by producer Ken Poston, altoist Phil Woods was featured performing Marty Paich arrangements with the Los Angeles Jazz Orchestra. [more]

One of the things that Sheila Jordan's followers can agree on is the fact that her catalog isn't nearly as large as it should be; in a perfect world, Jordan would [more]