Doug Watkins

The first classic album by the Horace Silver Quintet, this CD is highlighted by {"Señor Blues"} (heard in three versions, including a later vocal rendition by Bill [more]

Fuego -- a title that might be somewhat misleading -- is the final Blue Note recording exclusively pairing Donald Byrd with Jackie McLean, a fruitful partnership that set the yin of the (in [more]

This CD compilation collects three separate sessions recorded by Donald Byrd and Doug Watkins for Transition with various small groups. The 1955 recordings (first [more]

Blue Note has done an admirable job of collecting the mellow material of a number of classic players for its Ballads series. Sonny Rollins' entry, like the others, finds the tenor in a [more]

Yusef Lateef, who is still active today at age 89, is a quiet innovator. Although he first emerged as a tenor-saxophonist with the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band in [more]

Curious listeners who encounter Lee Morgan for the first time through this single-disc anthology will come away mightily impressed, even inspired, but they will be hearing only the [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]

The Atlantic/Rhino anthology line has delighted novices and angered purists who have balked at what they deem questionable [more]

Tina Brooks' first session for Blue Note was recorded in March of 1958, a month after he appeared on Jimmy Smith's sessions for The Sermon and House Party, but the music wasn't released at [more]

Career-spanning retrospectives are always difficult to pull off in jazz, since the music is often about the moment. An artist can peak for a few years, and that's what's worth hearing [more]