Jazz
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Volumes Two and Three in Omnivore Recordings’ Art Pepper series Neon Art document Pepper’s final Japanese tour, and capture the legend at his finest. Read more
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A reissue of this two-song live set captures a late-period Art Pepper in fine, enjoyable form. Read more
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A performance by a master doing what he does best. Read more
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El Records’ latest two disc compilation highlights the wonderful West Side Story, via a handful of diverse yet quality jazz interpretors. Read more
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A little music for your weekend, sir? A drink, madame? Combustible Edison’s debut album remains a highlight of the post-grunge Sub Pop era. Read more
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Uber-rare British jazz combo The Mike Cotton Sound’s sole album sees release, a superb time capsule of a rarely-heard yet brilliant, exciting combo. Read more
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Music expert Bob Stanley’s specialty label Croydon Municipal has released three distinctive,. essential, and downright enjoyable collections documenting women singers of the 1950s and 1960s. Read more
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Guitarist Kaki King presents a digital collection of covers and rarities, and it serves as both a great introduction to a very talented artist, and an interesting portrait of an artist at work. Read more
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Corky Hale is one of the world’s premiere harpists, a child prodigy turned teenage TV personality via her appearances on the Freddy Martin show, and then to a gig accompanying Liberace, which suddenly beget opportunities left and right, performing and recording with musicians of all stripes and genres. For the quality of her self-titled Read more
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Though he would become synonymous with grand, bombastic soul ballads, singer Billy Paul‘s career did not start out that way. His 1968 debut–an album long out of print–was a live-in-the-studio recording of Paul with his jazz trio. It is stunning, then, when one first hears introductory number “Billy Boy,” for his style is much more Read more
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