Jazz

What do Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea, and Ella Fitzgerald all have in common? Songs they made popular are making an appearance on My Man, the new CD by jazz singer and flutist Kaylene Peoples. Peoples has done it again by taking well-known classics and...

What did great ragtime music sound like? We know of only one recording of classic ragtime as it was performed in the years before World War I, Felix Arndt's 1915 "Desecration Rag." the rolls that were produced to play the music on mechanical pianos did...

What comes out when Norway and Cuba team up musically: earthy bass, filigree rhythms, melancholy, charm, humor - and an almost unbelievable lightness. Badische-Zeitung (Germany). Norwegian vocalist/composer Grete Skarpeid's "Beyond Other Stories" is...

What cements the relationship of Swiss saxophonist Co Streiff and American trumpeter Russ Johnson, is a shared belief that being progressive doesn't automatically require abandoning melody or groove. Their experience is the best in cross-cultural...

What best example could one have of the art of Abdullah Ibrahim than this Autobiography " The pianist regarded at the time as his more beautiful concert solo? As the title of the disc indicates it, it is all the history, the culture, the meetings and the...

What an unwieldy title! "True In No Possible World" is the motto of the debut album of the saxophonist and composer Benedict Koch, and everyone wonders what he really means. The term originates from modal logic, a branch of the logic that deals with the...

What a collection of Nat King Cole Classics! Every song on this CD will take your breath away. With 20 of the greatest love songs ever written performed by one of the greatest balladeers of all time all combined with the stunning sound of the XRCD2...

WFUV-FM's Rich Conaty has brought vintage gems to NYC listeners for over 30 years. His third CD comp features favorites by Paul Whiteman, Claude Hopkins, Golden Gate Orchestra, Irene Beasley, Frankie Masters, Russell Brown, Imperial Dance Orchestra, Roy...

Wewantsounds is delighted to announce the first-ever release of the mesmerizing live performance by Freddie Hubbard and his quintet recorded in Paris at Maison de la Radio (ORTF) on 25 March 1973.

We've got a bit of an obsession with Hozan Yamamoto here at Mr Bongo! A legend of Japanese jazz, he is rightly regarded as a true master and was recognised as a "living national treasure" by the Japanese government in 2002. Over five decades he pushed...

WEST is an important drive in the career of musician Vincent Courtois, a demanding course and poetic flow, with a voluntary exile in tones and inside qualities that take the listener the discovery of new lines of discovery while traveling to new melodic...

West Coast jazz band Gremoli plays authentic New Orleans-style jazz. Recorded in 1993, this 15 track album features Ron Going, Ted Thomas, Jim Leigh, Vic Loring, Mike Fay & Hal Smith.