Jazz

UNIFONY is the name of the project that was started by the Dutch musicians Minco Eggersman and Theodoor Borger. For this project they invite various guest musicians to find the pure essence of music with them. Together, they wander off the beaten track...

Unfortunately it's not very often that we get to hear Mike LeDonne, world-renowned Hammond B-3 organist and leader of the acclaimed Groover Quartet, fronting a piano trio session-especially one that unfolds in as swinging, soulful and intuitive fashion...

'Understanding' is a previously unreleased recording of drummer Roy Brooks captured live by the Left Bank Jazz Society at The Famous Ballroom in Baltimore, MD on November 1, 1970. Featuring a stellar band with trumpeter Woody Shaw, saxophonist Carlos...

Underrated pianist Kirk Lightsey steps into the spotlight to lead an extraordinary quartet featuring Mark Whitfield - guitar, Santi DeBriano - bass and Victor Lewis - drums, through a spirited program of tunes from Dave Brubeck to Tony Williams and McCoy...

Underground Streets, a collection of poetry by poet/performer Norman Riley and centered around the theme of loneliness and wanting is at once melancholy and optimistic. Sounds of the Streets is dedicated to street poets and specifically James Brown, or...

Undercurrent is a 1962 album by jazz pianist Bill Evans and jazz guitarist Jim Hall. They would collaborate again in 1966 for the follow-up album Intermodulation. In his November 26, 1962 review for Down Beat magazine jazz critic Pete Welding states:...

Under the direction of Jeff Sanford, the Cartoon Jazz Band has been delighting audiences since 2002. Raymond Scott's music is a part of our DNA, bought in 1941 by Warner Bros. And used to underscore the antics of Daffy and Bugs and more. This music has...

Under the band title 'Where's Africa', Omri Ziegele has long played with Ir?ne Schweizer. Now he presents That Hat, his second album in the trio formation with keyboardist Yves Theiler and drummer Dario Sisera. The three are interested in an Africa seen...

Under Swindler's interpretive hand as an arranger and a bandleader... tunes transformed into brooding epics, and light melodies gained more weight... - Adam Goldstein, Westword. As a composer and saxophonist, Wil Swindler lives for the pristine intervals...

Under a Blue Grey Sky marks a new, more lyrical direction for clarinetist Jeremiah Cymerman. Scored for strings and electronics the music unfolds slower and at a more organic pace than Cymerman's previous work. Seamlessly winding between electronic &...

Unavailable in the U.S.! Subtitle: A Jazz Hour from Max Roach. Variations on the Scene is a collection of 12 Hard Bop sessions by Jazz drummer Max Roach featuring performances from his own quintet and sessions that Roach recorded with Sonny Clarke...

Unavailable in the U.S.! Miles Davis' moody, evocative music for the Louis Malle movie (translation: The Lift to the Scaffold) comes in two different forms on this reissue. There is a chronological sketch pad of tracks which didn't appear in the original...