Hard Bop Music CDs

Thanks to its ownership of some of Cannonball Adderley's Riverside recordings, Capitol was able to stretch the definition of Best of Cannonball [more]

Larry Appelbaum, the recording lab supervisor at the Library of Congress, came across this tape by accident while [more]

A true classic, this CD found pianist Horace Silver and drummer Art Blakey co-leading the Jazz Messengers; Silver would leave a year later [more]

Just prior to forming the first edition of the Jazz Messengers, drummer Art Blakey led a superb quintet at Birdland for a brief gig in 1954. The band featured [more]

Often overlooked, perhaps because he wasn't a great innovator in jazz but merely a stellar performer, tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley was at the peak of his powers on Soul Station. [more]

It isn't too difficult to understand why MFSL considered this album to be a worthy candidate for an Ultradisc reissue -- aside from Cannonball Adderley, you have a [more]

Sobriquets like the world's greatest saxophonist and the world's greatest improviser are often applied to Sonny Rollins. That's a lot to [more]

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