Hubert Laws

From his beginnings as a member of the Jazz Crusaders, Hubert Laws has gone full circle as a flutist and tenorman saxman, becoming a force in light classical [more]

A nice date from an earlier Laws period with a harder tone and more traditional jazz direction. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music Guide

George Benson's two-disc Anthology from Rhino ultimately manages to encapsulate Benson's career. These 32 tracks not only highlight the obligatory vocal pop hits "Turn Your [more]

Deodato's debut for CTI, Prelude, earned him a genuine reputation for funky fusion with its groove-tight cover of "Thus Spake Zarathustra," the theme from Stanley Kubrick's {#2001: A Space [more]

For George Benson's second CTI project, producer Creed Taylor and arranger Don Sebesky successfully place the guitarist in a Spanish-flavored setting full of flamenco flourishes, brass fanfares, moody woodwinds and such. The idea works best on

It's impossible to hear Jaco Pastorious' debut album today as it sounded when it was first released in 1976. The opening track -- his transcription for fretless electric bass of the [more]

Baker began his comeback after five years of musical inactivity with this excellent CTI date. Highlights include "Autumn Leaves," "Tangerine," and "With a Song in My Heart." [more]

From his beginnings as a member of the Jazz Crusaders, Hubert Laws has gone full circle as a flutist and tenorman saxman, becoming a force in light classical [more]

Though it includes just one track originally released on Blue Note (Kenny Dorham's "Afrodisia"), Latino Blue is a superb collection of Latin jazz spanning the late '50s to the late [more]

Although Rhino's four-disc box set, Q: The Musical Biography of Quincy Jones, was released to coincide with Quincy Jones' autobiography, and that's what gives [more]

The Essential George Benson covers 28 years and spans two discs, so it lives up to its claim of having the widest scope of all the Benson compilations that surfaced before [more]

In an era when box sets are so plentiful and are basically de rigueur for any major, and some not so major labels, it's virtually a wonder that a Weather Report box set didn't [more]