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Mostly associated with Charles Mingus - with whom he recorded 10 albums between 1958 and 1961 - Booker Ervin is one of the great saxophone players of his generation, though arguably lesser known then many of his contemporaries. "That's It!" is only Ervin'

The music Charles Mingus and his group recorded during his landmark 1960 sessions for Candid Records produced three of the most revered jazz albums of the era. Incarnations is a new masterpiece thoughtfully assembled from rare and unreleased material from

After a string of two dozen brilliant albums beginning in the 1950’s, clarinetist, saxophonist, flutist, composer and arranger Jimmy Giuffre stopped recording. For nearly ten years he focused solely on live performance. This album, Music for People, Birds

Steve Lacy is widely recognized as one of the most important players of soprano saxophone in jazz. Recorded by Candid A&R man and founder Nat Hentoff at the Nola Penthouse Studios in New York City and released in 1961, The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy was

Out Front is probably the greatest realization on record of trumpeter Booker Little's scope as a musician and composer. It is also one of only five sessions led by Little as a band leader before his premature death at the age of 23 in 1961. The fact that

1992's 'A Walkin' Thing' is the last of three albums the great American organist Shirley Scott recorded for Candid, and her final recording before her passing.

First and foremost, Scott was a trained pianist, and it should be noted that towards the end

American pianist/composer Joanne Brackeen has been called the "Picasso of jazz piano", for her unique style and complex improvisations. Her work is at the forefront of what avant-garde jazz can be and she has long been one of the giants of modal, post-pop

Color Changes is considered by many to be one of the finest albums by trumpeter and pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, Clark Terry. Rather than have the usual jam session with the stellar sidemen he'd assembled, Terry utilized specific arrangements by Yus

The World Of Cecil Taylor is the fifth studio album by radical, free jazz pianist pioneer, Cecil Taylor. Taylor's music is often described as ahead of its time. And it’s easy to imagine what the reaction of the average jazz fan was to this recording. It

On September 3, 2017, attendees of the Detroit Jazz Festival witnessed a very special, and unique, one-time event. A set by a multi-generational jazz super group. A masterful quartet comprised of Wayne Shorter, Terri Lyne Carrington, EsperanzaSpalding, an

The combo here, referred to by Charles Mingus as The Jazz Workshop, had been in residence at the Showplace on W. 4th St. in Greenwich Village for nearly a year when they entered the studio to record what became the album Presents Charles Mingus in October

An avant-garde masterpiece, a vocal-instrumental suite, a work of collective improvisation, directly addressing the racial and political issues of it's day, We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite is one of the most important artistic statements of the C

Abbey Lincoln's distinctive vocal style, thought-provoking writing, and spirited personality has secured her a place among the jazz greats. Though she made her first recording for Riverside, and later in life for Verve, it was with the young and audacious