Bumpin’ was a career milestone for Montgomery: his first album to reach the Billboard charts, as well as the first to be nominated for Grammys. At the 8th Annual Grammys in 1966, Bumpin’ had Montgomery in the running for Best Original Jazz Composition and Best Instrumental Jazz Performance – Large Group or Soloist with Large Group. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith (2025 Remaster)
Roland Kirk was a glorious one-off. His live shows – often a curious blend of stand-up comedy, political preaching, and cutting-edge jazz – were legendary; so was his ability to play three saxophones simultaneously. But the man who brought chaos to The Ed Sullivan Show in 1971 is also the same man that produced the one-off Verve gem ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
Coleman Hawkins And Confrères (2025 Remaster)
Hawkins’ tenor saxophone playing is particularly confident and eloquent throughout the set. His group of “confreres” on the session is fortified by the Oscar Peterson Trio along with sit-in guests including Hank Jones (piano), Herb Ellis (guitar), Roy Eldridge and Buck Clayton (both on trumpet), and others. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
The fantastic Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet with Sonny Rollins was destined to end in tragedy, for in the early hours of June 26, 1956, Clifford Brown died in a car accident along with pianist Richie Powell. In the short time between Rollins' arrival and Brownie's death, the group had entered the recording studio on just three occasions. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker (Remastered Edition)
The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker is an album by American jazz drummer Max Roach featuring tracks associated with Charlie Parker recorded in late 1957 and 1958 and released on the EmArcy label. It is also the first album to feature Roach playing without a piano. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
A band of top line players and a set of tunes that let them loose to express themselves, all with the raw energy of live performance. That’s what you get with the New York All-Stars’ new release on Ubuntu Music, as Rob Adams found out: Eric Alexander describes The New York All-Stars’ Live Encounter album as “pure joy”, a happy accident that brought the best possible result from a situation that began with disappointment. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
First Flight - Jazz Thing Next Generation Vol. 110
The line-up of the band already catches your attention. Tino Derado (p), Andreas Lang (b), and Sebastian Merk (dr) are three renowned, highly experienced jazz musicians in Berlin and far beyond. George Kontomichalis could hardly have chosen better musicians for his album debut and his soulful ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
World-renowned tenor saxophonist Grant Stewart is known for his rich tone, swinging phrasing, and deep connection to the jazz tradition. Next Spring is his 5th album for Cellar Music. He is joined by three of his favorite players; Tardo Hammer on piano, Paul Sikivie on bass and Phil Stewart on drums. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
Kevin Hays has been at the forefront of the jazz scene for the last twenty years, racking up an impressive resume with the most demanding leaders including Sonny Rollins, John Scofield, Joe Henderson, Art Farmer and Joshua Redman. His playing is complex and infused with a modern-classical sense of harmony and form but his feel is still pure jazz. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Bebop
Jazz House Sessions with Scott Hamilton
THE JAZZ HOUSE is a place to dream and to turn dreams into reality. Dreams full of wonderful sounds, melodies that we learn by listening and singing. It is a place to sing with your voice, to sing with your instrument, which is your voice. To generate illusions, to share them, to laugh, to dance... to dream and... we return to the beginning. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
Miles '55 (Mono Remastered 2025)
Miles Davis had already turned heads at major New York venues like Birdland and Basin Street when he stepped back into Rudy Van Gelder’s living-room studio in Hackensack, New Jersey three times in 1955—June 7, August 5, and November 16. What emerged was far more than another entry in the Prestige catalog; that year marked a ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
Pee Wee's passion for jazz fills these live recordings from Cologne's renowned Schmuckkãstchen club, with inspired playing from Bruce Cox on drums and Dwayne Dolphin on upright bass. A jewel from the Schmuckkãstchen's 'jewel box'. Play at full volume on a good hi-fi and you could almost be there. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre:
“I sat very near to or next to the greats at the Village Vanguard on many occasions,” says the eminent drummer-composer-bandleader Bill Stewart, by way of contextualizing his - and the Criss Cross label’s – first-ever live-at-the-Vanguard recording. During his early years in New York, before he ever played the hallowed basement, Stewart, now 58, frequently ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Rivers have always played an important role in Tobias Meinhart's life. While the saxophonist, who grew up in a small town near Regensburg, had to cross the Danube every day during his school days, today it's the East River in New York. Meinhart has lived there, in the world capital of jazz, for over 15 years. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The album ‘Suite Espontánea’ was released in May 2019 and explores the Jazz language through 9 original compositions, 2 of them as free improvisations, exploring and investigating form and improvisation, through different formats and musical situations, with a quintet formed by Alejandro Sánchez on tenor sax, Jasper ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Nu Jazz
More Amor - A Tribute To Wes Montgomery
From “Road Song” to “More, More, Amor” to “Boss City,” the Windy City’s oldest continuously operating jazz orchestra — featuring the phenomenal guitarist Bobby Broom — tips its hat to one of the most unique and pivotal voices jazz guitar has ever known. The 10-track collection is proof that the CJO deserves its reputation as “The best big band in the country,” as proclaimed by the late, great trumpeter and educator, Clark Terry. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
Olmarin Unioni is a Tampere-based jazz quartet. Founded in 1998, they have played together for over fifteen years and recorded two albums, Olmarin Unioni in 2004 and Peaceful Minds 2005. As their musical inspiration, the band mentions the great jazz masters of the 50's and 60's, like Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon and Wayne Shorter. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
Alfie (Original Music From The Score (2025 Remaster)
Alfie was released in 1966 as the soundtrack to the British film of the same name. This six-cut date was arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson, featuring a mix of musicians supporting Rollins including Kenny Burrell (guitar), J.J. Johnson (trombone) and Phil Woods (alto sax), among others. Rollins attempts to capture the textures of life through his incisive and ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
Niemandsland - Jazzthing Next Generation, Vol. 106
Niemandsland (trans: “No man's land") is not just the title of this album. Matthias Meyer also named his band as such: Matthias Meyer's Niemandsland. The term clearly has a deeper meaning for the drummer, composer, and bandleader from Berlin. It has become a key word for his musical self-discovery. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Tippin’ is the realization of a dream I've nurtured for quite some time. It’s been over 20 years since I last recorded as a leader, not counting the two records I made with my dear friend and bassist, Rodney Whitaker, Get Ready and Work To Do. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
