Cecil Brooks III

Jazz giants like Jack McDuff, Sonny Stitt, Kenny Burrell, and Bobby Hutcherson all contribute tracks and brush shoulders with jazz middleweights like Wallace [more]

This single CD (a 1998 reissue) has ten selections taken from the Muse and Landmark catalogs of the 1970s, '80s and early '90s. The ten selections all feature [more]

Jazz for a Lazy Day lives up to its name, providing the kind of cool, languid jazz that adds that extra something to a weekend or day off. A mix of standards and [more]

Pianist John Hicks has long been a master of the modern mainstream without necessarily blazing any new paths of his own. On this CD he is featured on a pair of solo numbers, a duet [more]

The Enja Band was a short-lived co-op band featuring three up and coming artists who recorded regularly for Enja: Willie Williams on tenor and soprano, vibraphonist Gust Tsilis, [more]

Although a veteran pianist, this CD was Lou Montelione's recorded debut as a leader of a jazz date. The quartet includes John Stubblefield on tenor and soprano, bassist Michael [more]

In early 2009, many of the great Jimmy Smith-influenced soul-jazz organists who emerged in the 1950s or 1960s were no longer living. Richard "Groove" Holmes, Johnny "Hammond" [more]

The third volume in Highnote Records' excellent Duke of Elegant tribute series to Duke Ellington is much like the previous two: it features [more]