Jazz

Three CD set. 1963: New Directions showcases all of the music John Coltrane recorded throughout this historic year. This box set (available as a 5-LP, 3-CD, and on digital platforms) highlights everything Coltrane recorded in 1963 in the order these...

Three CD set from Basie and his Orchestra featuring guest vocals from Tony Bennett, Al Hibbler, Joe Williams, Jimmy Rushing and others. 48 tracks including 'Don't You Want a Man Like Me', 'Cheek to Cheek', 'Be My Guest' and more. Golden Stars.1. One...

Three CD set containing five albums from the Jazz great and his trio. Bill Evans co-wrote 'Kind Of Blue' with Miles Davis and is regarded by many as the most influential jazz pianist of his generation. The trio he formed in 1959 with the brilliant,...

Three CD collection. After the stellar success of the Jazz Sexiest Ladies series, Music Brokers releases the first Volume of it's male counterpart: Jazz Sexiest Crooners. As usual, this set features 36 sultry and sexy songs from the last four decades,...

Three CD archive release containing two hours of previously unreleased studio recordings from 1966-1968. These tracks are newly mixed and remastered in high resolution audio. This set is released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Miles Smiles -...

ThoughtCast is the new project from Twin Cities bassist Graydon Peterson featuring Jake Baldwin, Joe Strachan and Ben Ehrlich. Their debut album, Nimbus in Motion, brings pedals and synthesizers into the traditional jazz quartet setting, leading the...

Though this popular dance band scored it's hits from 1936-43, it's creative golden age came in the late '40s and early '50s. These 24 tracks from that era feature nostalgic medleys, unique instrumentation and galloping rhythms: Time Stood Still; Lavender...

Though this music is linked with the undisputed "King of Pop," Joey DeFrancesco offers jazz at it's finest ? complex and virtuosic yet easily accessible, at times intense, at others fun-filled, and always with the feeling of the unknown that comes with...

Though rooted firmly in the tradition of big band jazz, Dave Slonaker's Los Angeles-based Big Band looks toward the future of large ensemble jazz in this set of dynamic modern original compositions and arrangements. The band features an all-star cast of...

Though reflecting on the wide-ranging, cascading emotions and endless complications created by the pandemic, saxophonist Jared Sims somehow manages to find an optimistic voice that weaves it's way through the narrative of "Against All Odds," his 10th...

Though recorded in 1959 this album was not released until 1971. Featuring the classic Ornette Coleman quartet, this release is perhaps most notable for an early version of "Free Jazz", here called "First Take", the 40 minute version of which would make...

Though Hazel Scott has earned a great deal of her fame for swinging the classics from a red-hot keyboard, her talents extend far beyond the realm of crass showmanship and actually reach the other extreme, that of warm, delicate and intimate jazz playing...