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

Also, Grofé: Grand Canyon Suite (Complete); Copland: El Salón México; Bernstein: 3 Dances from Fancy [more]

On the budget-priced Irish Folk Songs, conductor Robert Shaw leads his Chorale through smooth renditions of 16 Irish folk tunes and ballads, with the emphasis on sentimental [more]

When musicologists a hundred years from now turn their attention to music of the 1960s, they will surely be fascinated by jazz-pop trumpeter Al Hirt. A [more]

Honey in the Horn/Our Man in New Orleans reissues and repackages two of Al Hirt's most popular albums for RCA. Part of this set comes from Honey in the Horn, a [more]

Charles Mingus recorded many superb albums, but his personal favorite was Tijuana Moods, which was inspired by a visit to the Mexican border town. His sole release for [more]

The Latin Jazz Orchestra was founded by trumpeter Armando Rodriguez and drummer Victor Rendon in 1991. The Orchestra is smoothly piloted through [more]

Lester Young's influence on younger tenor players was at its height in the early-to-mid-'50s. This enjoyable session matches together the three tenors of Al Cohn, [more]

Despite some jazz and hip-hop touches here and there, Adriana Evans' promising debut album leaves no doubt that her primary inspiration is the sleek "uptown" soul music of the 1970s. [more]

Sonny Rollins' (tenor sax) earliest sessions as a bandleader are among the fresh and vibrant baker's dozen [more]

{+Hair} was both celebratory and anticlimactic at the same time. Heralded by many at the time as being a rejuvenation for musical theater, it was [more]