DELMARK

Ammons' name is on the marquee, but Pete Johnson and Meade Lux Lewis share the ivories as you hear 18 live and studio cuts from '38 and '39! It's a boogie-woogie blowout: Bear Cat Shuffle; Mama's...

Chicago tenor saxophone legend and proprietor of the longest standing and most adventurous avant garde jazz club in Chicago, Fred Anderson celebrated his 80th birthday this past March and Delmark was...

Brimming with melodic insight and still able to raise the roof with his intensity, Anderson's sonic vocabulary is now completely his own. * Down Beat from the review of "On the Run, Live at the...

Anderson is one of the founders of the Assoc. For the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Up to now, his individual sound has been under-documented, but this CD will help Fred to be recognized as an...

Chicago tenor sax legend Fred Anderson has been getting a lot of press recently because of the forthcoming closing of the current location of the internationally renowned Velvet Lounge. Features...

Compilation from the vaults of United, feat. The most innovative & eclectic gospel artists from the 1950s.1. Come in the Room - Robert Anderson 2. Trust in Jesus - Robert Anderson 3. How Could It Be...

Avant garde jazz 1972.1. Duffvipels/Checkmate/Dautalty/Mata Kimasu

This is the solo debut by Chicago pianist/synthesist Jim Baker, previously recorded in settings ranging from duets to Ken Vandermark's Territory Bands, and from third-stream projects (with Guillermo...

Very much in the vein of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers or Coltrane's band on the legendary Blue Train album, Bakerzmillion is Chicago's hard bop ensemble par excellence. It's six members are a true...

Apollo's lady blues singers w. Danny Barker's Sextet, George Kelly, Larry Johnson, Panama Francis, Bill Campbell.1. Buy Me Some Juice 2. Where's Joe 3. Lyin' in Jail 4. Easy Riding Blues - Wee Bea...

Barkin' Bill didn't bark. He was stylistically similar to the smoother singers like Brook Benton, Joe Williams and Jimmy Witherspoon. In a review of this 1994 release Frank-John Hadley said Barkin'...

Bad Bascomb mines the recordings of the one-time big band saxophonist best known for his stint in the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra, who also played with Count Basie. Bascomb blew big and hard with...