Individually or collectively, you will find these discs the foundation of an estimable jazz library. With their cover graphics and CD booklet design uniformly simple, and perhaps, unadorned to a fault ...

In the 1950s, musicians who could play jazz, blues and R&B ... launched an extensive Prestige Records cover art gallery of over 100 classic album covers from the Prestige catalog on their Facebook ...

The Best Jazz Record Of 2009 (So Far) : All Songs Considered There was a time when new jazz records would take my breath away. Give me a new World Saxophone Quartet record or an Art Ensemble of ...

Last year guitarist Mary Halvorson released one of her best albums, a peculiar solo recording of jazz standards and cover ... she’s dropped an even better record that showcases her continuously ...

As I’ve said in a few recent editions of these best-of columns ... Here are my favorite savage-soothers among jazz albums—10 new and three historical releases (two of them previously ...

Other new jazz records: All Night Session (Hampton Hawes ... bass; Jo Jones, drums; Prestige). “Count don’t play nothin’,” said a Basie veteran once, “but it sure sounds good.” ...

He’s genuinely talented and hard-working, but he doesn’t know much about jazz beyond what he’s heard on records, and he doesn’t really know how to make music with other people. So when he ...

From 1951 to 1956, Miles would record a string of groundbreaking albums for Prestige Records ... June 23 to 29 -- 7 days of the nation's best jazz musicians in the Junction's own My HOUSE!