In 1971 Sun Ra was appointed lecturer in the newly created Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of ...

Recorded in Dublin in July 1985, this session was first released the following year. Livia’s remastered reissue contains a 16 ...

Drummer Zach Adleman is a musician whose track record includes performances in the company of many music heavyweights and he ...

Hot on the heels of his trombonist brother Roland’s impressive playing on John Alvey’s recent Loft Glow comes this Jazz Music ...

Satoko Fujii – pianist, composer, leader of several bands and winner of several awards around the world, dubbed “The ...

Economics precipitated the end of the big-band era at least 10 years before Terry Gibbs formed his Dream Band. By the mid-50s ...

Renowed trombonist Fedchock’s live recording of his tribute to J.J. Johnson’s centennial, using Johnson’s original charts, ...

This is the 21st album by “smooth jazz artist” tenor and soprano saxophonist Richard Elliott, born in Scotland but raised in Los Angeles. As a teenager, he performed with Natalie Cole and the Pointer ...

Tin Pan Alley/American Songbook is as far removed from contemporary cinema as Mickey Mouse from Hannibal Lector. In the 1920s-50s, this rich source of songs and the big screen were Siamese twins. It’s ...

Koo Nimo, a leading 93-year-old highlife musician and apparently the first Ghanaian to release an album of his own music, introduces this fine album with a brief retrospective on how highlife ...