The Kansas City born trumpeter Carmell Jones was quickly signed by Pacific Jazz soon after his arrival in Los Angeles in 1960, and began a promising recording career with his impressive and accurately titled 1961 debut The Remarkable Carmell Jones.
Something For Real, Kiefer’s first live album, was conceived as a project without rules – “three friends playing for each other, for fun. With friends, for friends. Something for real!”
1962's We Free Kings is a solid balance of bop with complimenting soul, backed by two different rhythm sections - one including Hank Jones (piano) and Wendell Marshall (bass), and the other with Richard Wyands (piano) and Art Davis (bass)
Bad But Beautiful (Verve By Request Series) by Eartha Kitt. Kitt is in excellent form on this never-before-reissued 1962 album, swinging her way through Billy May arrangements on classics like "Love For Sale" and "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend."
It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, the first time in 25 years that a jazz album was nominated in that category, and won two awards for Best Jazz Vocal and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical at the 42nd Grammy Awards.
La Lom's Thalia Hall concert marked a milestone for them. Starting from small LA bars and going to sold-out shows nationwide, the band brought dance-floor energy to a packed Chicago theater.
Guitar virtuoso Julian Lage returns with his fifth Blue Note release, Scenes From Above, the follow-up to the GRAMMY-nominated Speak To Me, which was once again produced by Joe Henry.
Julian Lage returns with Speak To Me, his remarkable fourth release for Blue Note, which finds the guitar virtuoso broadening his sonic palette in collaboration with esteemed producer Joe Henry who enhances Lage's trademark melodic lyricism on this wide-r
Mysterious erotic Wamono record from the Nippon Columbia vaults, by Monica Lassen & The Sounds aka John Hennessy aka Japanese jazz musicians Kosuke Ichihara, Masami Kawahara and Masaoki Terakawa.
Mysterious erotic Wamono record from the Nippon Columbia vaults, by Monica Lassen & The Sounds aka John Hennessy aka Japanese jazz musicians Kosuke Ichihara, Masami Kawahara and Masaoki Terakawa.
Since the release of Bewitched, Laufey has proven how staying true to oneself can result in creating a space where people can find themselves. Includes booklet and board game.
Her debut album Everything I Know About Love blends modern song structures and sensibilities with the classic musical stylings and instrumentation she learned as a violinist.
2021 EP from the singer/songwriter. Laufey is Los Angeles-based singer, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist whose jazz songs are about young love and self-discovery.
Ramsey Lewis Trio The In Crowd (Verve By Request Series) One of the first soul jazz icons of the mid-'60s, Ramsey Lewis recorded The In Crowd over three days during a 1965 club date at the Bohemian Caverns in Washington, D.C.
