Artist: Thelonius Monk

Title: Big Band And Quartet In Concert

Thelonious Monk could walk from his flat to New York’s famous Philharmonic Hall on the corner of 64th Street and Broadway when he made his very first appearance there with his Big Band in December 1963.

Artist: Harry Belafonte

Title: Belafonte At The Greek Theatre

The show, which rolled over the open-air stage of the Greek Theatre night after night in the late summer of 1963, attracted fans as if on a pilgrimage to the mountains of Hollywood…

Artist: Phil Upchurch

Title: Tell The Truth

Phil Upchurch is the kind of guitarist who makes a strong point by what he chooses not to play. There are speedier chopsmeisters, players who undertake more daring intervallic leaps, those who navigate trickier lines…

Artist: David Murray

Title: Lucky Four

Not many jazz saxophone players bring most of the landmark stages of the instrument's evolution together in an on-the-fly improvisational setting without it sounding like musical tourism…

Artist: Horace Tapscott with the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra

Title: Live At IUCC (STEREO)

The music of Horace Tapscott and The Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra is part Sun Ra Arkestra, part John Coltrane, part Art Ensemble of Chicago. This ground-breaking…

Artist: Pharoah Sanders

Title: Live…

This album features Pharoah Sanders playing some no-nonsense tenor in a quartet with pianist John Hicks, bassist Walter Booker, and drummer Idris Muhammad.

Artist: Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Title: Olympia Concert - Fontana - 1958

I’ve never played for such an audience” declared Art Blakey in tears. lt was November 22nd, 1958, and he’d just come offstage….

Artist: Norman Connors

Title: Dance Of Magic

Recorded with a who's who of fusion titans including trumpeter Eddie Henderson, bassist Stanley Clarke, and keyboardist Herbie Hancock, Dance of Magic channels the lessons drummer Norman Connors learned in the employ …

Artist: The Nimbus Collective

Title: Live In Lotusland 3LP Set

Featuring Nate Morgan on piano, Jesse Sharps on reeds, Danny Cortez on trumpet, Rickey Kelly on vibes, Joel Ector on bass and Derek Roberts on drums. Recorded in Santa Barbara in July of 1987…

Artist: John Stubblefield

Title: Bushman Song

John Stubblefield was one of the most versatile musicians in jazz, an invaluable artist who expanded on the music's potential from within the tradition…

Artist: Archie Shepp & Richard Davis

Title: Body & Soul

This duet date from 1990 demonstrates the deep blues feeling and technical mastery Archie Shepp has on the tenor saxophone. Comprised of four standards…

Artist: Melvin Taylor & The Slack Band

The U.S. release of Melvin Taylor's two early-'80s LPs by Evidence a decade later was a shock introduction to a blues guitarist who seemingly blazed out of nowhere -- outside of Rosa's Lounge in Chicago…