Dave Brubeck covers a host of favorite carols on this solo outing. His chime-like Joy
to the World and striding Winter Wonderland are treasures. His festive opening version of Jingle Bells contrasts with the weary version signaling the end of ...
By the time of this, Art Pepper's tenth recording as a leader, he was making
his individual voice on the alto saxophone leave the cozy confines of his heroes Charlie Parker and Lee Konitz. Joining the Miles Davis rhythm section ...
Here is Vince Guaraldi's breakthrough album -- musically, commercially, in every which way. After numerous
records as a leader or sideman, for the first time a recognizable Guaraldi piano style emerges, with whimsical phrasing all his own, a madly swinging ...
Although a touch underrated, Jazz at Oberlin is one of the early Dave Brubeck classic
recordings. The interplay between the pianist-leader and altoist Paul Desmond on Perdido borders on the miraculous, and their renditions of The Way You Look Tonight, ...
Dave Brubeck (piano) began his Columbia Records association on a second album of material that
his quartet had cut during its spring of 1954 tour of North American college campuses, Paul and Dave's Jazz Interwoven (1954) being the first. Joining ...
The owner of one of the most intimately romantic tenor sax sounds in jazz was
a natural candidate for Verve's Late-Night series, and so this 14-track collection treats would-be-Lotharios to several candlelit samples from Verve's archives, the orchestras (and two ...
Andre Previn is so well-regarded in the 20th century as a classical composer and conductor
that it's easy to forget his early days in jazz, when he played with such artists as Billie Holliday, Benny Goodman, Shelly Manne, Dizzy Gillespie, ...
Gerry Mulligan's quartet recorded this studio date about seven years before his death, and it's
a beautiful statement of where the refined, seasoned veteran of cool jazz was at in the later years of his life. A young Bill Charlap ...