Jazz

The Beat of the Brass is the tenth album release by the popular 1960s instrumental group Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. The album was released on the heels of a television special by the same title (telecast April 22, 1968 over CBS). Tom Mankiewicz,...

The Beat Goes on is a homage to the Beat Generation, the anti-conformist literary youth movement that developed in the U.S.A. during the 'fifties exemplified by authors Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso and Lawrence...

The BBL encountered Johnny Griffin during a 1989 tour and, quite at home in large outfits, the saxophonist, felt perfectly at ease with the group. This event naturally gave birth to an album. Among the Big Band's qualities, we can particularly appreciate...

The Bay City Jazz Band recorded two LPs for the Good Time Jazz label in the 1950s. That's the same label that issued Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band, the band that started the west coast traditional jazz revival scene and influenced numerous groups...

The Bay Area saxophonist / composer's 11th recording as leader or co-leader is a labor of love that reflects both his keen sense of the history of the music and his infinite capacity to swing. Citing the profound influence of seven sax masters - Michael...

The bassist has a real talent for creating modern works that balance expertly between new and old-school forms of expression... deeply melodic forays and from-the-heart blues occupy the same space, unconflicted. - Bird is the Worm. Antwerp bassist, Piet...

The Barabli was a famous bilingual theatre in the post-war era, a cabaret that formed the cornerstone of nightlife in Alsace from 1946 to 1992. Noted for launching entertainer Jacques Martin, the club represented the region's soul, famously characterized...

The band's repertoire skillfully balances Paster and Ryan's Afro-Cuban, Brazilian and American influenced compositions with Latin-tinged arrangements of standard gems. Grupo Yanqui defies simple classification-it's latin jazz; it's world groove; it's...

The bandleader who was perhaps the most faithful to the Glenn Miller sound. This August 6, 1950 performance includes Mona Lisa; Farewell Blues; A String of Pearls; You Wonderful You, and more.

The Banda Brothers' first release is an example of Latin jazz as art. Their treatment of Latin jazz lies within the conceptual foundation of legends like Mario Bauza, Dizzy Gillespie, and Chano Pozo who signaled the direction and promise this music could...

The band features such impressive sidemen as Joe Maini, Buddy Collette, BudShank, Harold Land, Teddy Edwards, Richard "Groove" Holmes, Joe Pass, andMel Lewis, to name a few. As a bonus, we have added a rare tune by Wilson's orchestra recorded live...

The band are all from Los Angeles, mostly South Central, and it's members - who call themselves variously "The Next Step" and the "The West Coast Get Down" - have been congregating since they were barely teenagers in a backyard shack in Inglewood. The...