Charles Fambrough

Trumpeter Roy Hargrove's debut as a leader found him occasionally recalling Freddie Hubbard but already sounding fairly original in the hard bop genre. On a quartet version of [more]

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

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]

Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis's debut on Columbia, recorded when he was only 19, made it clear from the start that he was going to be a major force in jazz. At the time Marsalis (who [more]

Although drummer George Johnson is clearly the leader of this CD, he does not solo at all. Instead, he contributed four of the nine selections -- including "Turquoise Ocean," [more]