Dick Katz

As any Monk aficionado knows, his solo piano performances were wonderful, idiosyncratic, living works of art that often wound up [more]

Even though by the mid-'50s he'd already established himself as a multi-talented entertainer, this collection of piano-centric instrumentals would be the first [more]

Excellent tribute work from The American Jazz Orchestra, an assemblage of masterful talents that unfortunately had to disband due to a [more]

Tenor saxophonist Loren Schoenberg led a part-time swing orchestra throughout the 1980s. This definitive set finds his big band playing an arrangement apiece [more]

One of the many Benny Carter recordings cut after he returned to jazz on a full-time basis in the mid-'70s, this double-LP set is the jewel among [more]

At times sounding indistinguishable soloing side by side, trombonists Kai Winding and J.J. Johnson gained unexpected fame from a series of collaborative efforts cut during the [more]

Once again, Legacy has taken one of Thelonious Monk's seminal Columbia albums -- this one named for its timing with the appearance of his face upon a Time magazine [more]

Most of Sarah Vaughan's Columbia recordings were on the commercial side, but not the memorable selections on this wonderful CD reissue. She recorded eight selections in 1950 [more]

This essential single-CD combines altoist/arranger Benny Carter's classic Further Definitions with the related Additions to Further Definitions. The former set was [more]

This Impulse set (which was given the catalog number of A-1 when it first came out) was the first recorded reunion of trombonists J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding. Given a [more]