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Jazz can be a confusing genre if you don’t know a ton about it. There are lots of records out there to investigate and the sounds can be challenging. Some music listeners want to know what they’re ...

Desafinado; Cheek To Cheek; Sophistacted Lady; Don't Get Around Much Anymore; Satin Dolls; It Never Entered My Mind; Goodbye Pork Pie Hat; Body And Soul; Cantaloupe Island; The Seventh Sign; Walk On ...

The relative demise of vinyl and the onslaught of mp3’s and digidownloads have pretty much wiped out the pleasurable gestalt of seeing a great album cover. Many books have been devoted to classic rock ...

A jazz classic gets a new lease of life. Credit: Nils Petter Molvaer, Khmer (Live in Bergen) The material revisited on this ...

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers’ 1965 album ‘Free For All’ is getting rereleased by Blue Note as part of its Classic Vinyl ...

Sweet reissues, new archival releases, and a truly new recording that is nevertheless a tribute to a genius musician of the 1950s and early 1960s... what can I say, I'm just an old-school kind of jazz ...

SHEFFIELD — Bobby Previte first heard “Bitches Brew” as a college student in upstate New York. At the time, right when Miles Davis' trailblazing 1970 jazz album was released, it rocked Previte's world ...

The album cover is peak 1950s with cheesecake charm and all, but don’t let the pin-up gloss fool you. Inside is some seriously swinging jazz. Originally released in 1957 on Savoy Records, Surf R i de ...