This seminal fusion classic, is a mindblowing album, musically, and technically. Herbie's band on this album includes Bennie Maupin, on reeds, Paul Jackson on bass, Harvey …
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This is a great CD for fusion lovers. For straight ahead guys consider it a new ingredient. It is an experimental album that Herbie scored big with.…
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Return with us know to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when there was a sound in the air(waves) still referred to as "soul" or "rhythm & blues (R&B)." The sound was in …
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I had been trying to track this record down for some time now and was very happy when I finally got a copy via ebay at a reasonable price. This is available on disc, but on…
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In all honesty, there aren't enough stars to rate this stellar album. Unfortunately, the last by these four members of Booker T. & the MGs. Booker T. Jones plays his B-3 or…
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If you like Jazz; freeblowing, yet wildly sensuous and melodic, Tenor Saxophone, this is for you! I have been scouring the world over for two decades to get a copy of this …
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I just bought her CD, Body Music and I think it is absolutely great! Haven't heard such music in a long time. This girl can PLAY (trumpet). Combining all new dance jazz sty…
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I hate to use clichés like "Timeless and Classic" because the words seem to be overused and taken out of context in conversations, interpretation, examinations, and situati…
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For me this CD represents a closing of all the Jazz that came before it, since it was released in the era between Free Jazz and Fusion. It is post-everything music, contain…
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Avante garde, experimental, fusion.... all of that and more is what this music encompasses. Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath was formed in 1970. Although the lifespan…
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The greatest band in America took on the greatest band in England, and the boys from Memphis held their own. This is a very cutting edge and ahead of its time album. The Be…
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Usurping traditional for by going for the groove and feel, ‘In A Silent Way’ shone a spotlight on a new creative aesthetic for the anything-but-traditional Davis. Final com…
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One finds synergy in the strangest of places. On August 19-20, 1969, as the Beatles concluded the last full band sessions for their peerless finale Abbey Road, a rock era e…
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Score shows just how talented and prodigious the Brecker brothers were at the time of this 1968 release (with Michael just 19!). The set opens with "Bangalore," a compositi…
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Duster is considered to be one of the first jazz fusion albums recorded, bringing together the intricacy of jazz with the energy and drive of rock and roll. This record is …
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A dramatic departure from organist Freddie Roach’s Blue Note recordings, he is experimental, soulful and pensive. While the Blue Note sessions were notable and worthy, thes…
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Lee Morgan - Jazz Impresario Extroadinaire!What is there left to say about Lee? All I can do is add to the legend. Professional at the age of 15. First trumpet in the Dizzi…
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This reissue on Verve is quite welcome. These are good, straightforward Jimmy Smith/Kenny Burrell performances. They are supported by Milt Hinton, George Duvivier, Bill Eng…
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Brother Jack McDuff had one of the hottest combos in Jazz in the early sixties, and what distinguished him from the grand master Jimmy Smith, was his great bands(he was lik…
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Jack McDuff’s importance to the sub-genres of jazz is beyond what anyone had previously given him credit for, in truth he is an important link to the blending of jazz, soul…
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Recorded during the rising popularity of bossa nova in the United States in 1962. Many jazz artists jumped on board incorporating songs by Jobim, Valle, Bonfa and Gilberto …
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This year is heavily publicized sixtieth birthday of Blue Note, Herbie Hancock: The complete Blue Note Sixties Sessions ranks as one of the top Blue Note events of the year…
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This is certainly an ironic title for someone that ended up in jail for possession of heroin. Art Pepper’s Smack Up was a classic exploration of his instinctive abil…
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Arnett Cobb is "Movin’ Right Along" on all eight tracks that encompass this original jazz classic. Released in 1960 originally, it was a roadmap to the sound of bop with se…
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.... As if every note was sent from Heaven A Review of Miles Davis’ Masterpiece, "Kind of Blue" Browsing for something new at a local record store, I glanced over in the ja…
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