Jazz

Capra Black remains one of the seminal recordings of jazz's black consciousness movement. A profoundly spiritual effort that channels both the intellectual complexity of the avant-garde as well as the emotional potency of gospel, it's focus and assurance...

Canfy Dulfer biO - Candy Dulfer is a Dutch jazz and pop saxophonist. She is the daughter of jazz saxophonist Hans Dulfer. She began playing at age six and founded her band Funky Stuff when she was fourteen. Her debut album Saxuality received a Grammy...

'Candomble rhythms meets Jazz... Alabe Ketujazz was founded in 2012 by French percussionist/composer Antoine Olivier and Brazilian saxophonist/composter Glaucus Linx. Together, Glaucus and Antoine created original music and textures inspired from the...

Calvin's 1971 debut for Black Jazz Records heralded the arrival of a new jazz guitar star. Already esteemed for his work with organists Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff and Jack McDuff, Calvin teamed with pianist Larry Nash on this album (Larry had played with...

Calvin Keys Blue Keys (Black Jazz Records, Ray Charles) is a new record on Wide Hive Records with saxophone icon Gary Bartz (Milestone Records, Miles Davis), trombonist Steve Turre, Henry Franklin, Babatunde Lea, Gregory Howe, Mike Hughes, Thomas McCree...

Calling Planet Earth comes from a concert recorded at Tivoli Hall in Copenhagen, Denmark on December 5, 1971. Sun Ra and his Arkestra are captured in their prime, while exploring some of their most far out material to date. The recording is finally...

Called an "American Iconoclast" by the New York Times Roscoe has forged a lifetime of truly free music as composer, musician, and teacher. Currently the department chair of composition at Mills College, a position once held by Darius Milhaud, Roscoe is a...

Call the dance doctor - there's an outbreak of fever in the funkhouse! And here's the reason why - after more than two decades of deletion, Ace is once again making available the final piece in the splendid musical jigsaw that comprises the Blackbyrds'...

Call Me: Jazz from the Penthouse presents previously unreleased live recordings of underrated jazz pianist Jack Wilson and his quartet, best known for his work on the Atlantic and Blue Note labels. Featuring a young Roy Ayers and recorded in Seattle at...

Cal Massey, a track title from the Clifford Jordan album "Glass Bead Games". And this album, the only one recorded under his name. There was much more to his musical life than this title. Born January 11th 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Massey...

Caixa Cubo are one of the most highly-regarded modern Brazilian jazz trios. Recipients of scholarships from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, Netherlands, in recent years, they have split their time between Brazil and Europe. Angela was recorded in...

Cab Calloway - From 1932 to the late 1940s, the period covered by this set, Cab had an orchestra that was about as swinging a band of solid senders as you'd find on the big-band circuit. Now this LP, first released by Epic in 1956 and featuring famous...