Jack McDuff – Moon Rappin’ (Classic Vinyl Series)

4-time Grammy-winning producer Larry Klein, who produced Herbie Hancock’s Grammy Album of the Year winning release River: The Joni Letters, has assembled another extraordinary star-studded project with Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen. This heartfelt tribute to Klein’s dear friend,...

By the time he recorded Go! in 1962, Dexter Gordon had already lived several lifetimes in jazz. He was among the first to adapt the language of bebop to the tenor saxophone in the 1940s, but after a decade in which personal...

  Until the emergence of Larry Young the Hammond B3 organ tradition was firmly rooted in Soul Jazz, but Young brought a new perspective to the instrument by placing it in an adventurous Post-Bop context. His 1965 masterpiece Unity featured...

Cassandra Wilson’s visionary 1993 Blue Note debut Blue Light ‘Til Dawn wove an alluring tapestry of Jazz, Blues, Folk, and R&B into a singular sound that opened up new avenues of expression for vocal Jazz. Produced by Craig Street, the...

Cornetist Don Cherry first rose to prominence as part of the revolutionary Ornette Coleman Quartet that turned the jazz world on its ear in 1959 when it arrived at the Five Spot Café in NYC. Though Cherry co-led the album...