Celebrating Satchmo!
Collector's Corner - Though he broke down many cultural and creative barriers, Louis Armstrong was much more than a pioneer. He was a virtuoso, an icon and arguably the first superstar of jazz. For his...
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Collector's Corner - One of the most significant recent discoveries in folk music history is now available on Rounder Records. It comes from Woody Guthrie (1912-1967), inarguably the figurehead of folk...
View ArticleElla & Joe Together Again
Collector's Corner - After appearing to rave reviews at an early-70's Playboy Jazz Festival, Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass began recording duet albums together. Easy Living, recently released in a new...
View ArticleFrom The Highest Rung
Collector's Corner - Climb The Ladder (Heartbeat, 2000) captures the magical time when the Wailers were the Peter Tosh, Neville "Bunny" Levingstone and Bob Marley vocal trio, and not the later, larger...
View ArticleClassified & Sassified
Collector's Corner - Pianist/vocalist James Booker was one of New Orleans' most notoriously flamboyant musical personalities (which is really saying something), yet he released only two studio albums...
View ArticleTrane's Essential Tracks
Collector's Corner - The John Coltrane collection Essential Albums (Prestige, 2011) spans the beginning and end of the trailblazing saxophonist's tenure as a leader for Prestige Records, compiling four...
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