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Tommy Flanagan, Sunset And Th…
When mainstream jazz roared back after 1980, a few distinguished elders f… more »
Don Cherry, Complete Communio…
Around 1960 or so, the pocket-trumpeter was every radical saxophonist… more »
Dexter Gordon, Our Man In Par…
Jazz's most famous expat saxophonist didn't live in Paris in 1963… more »
Jimmy Smith, Back At The Chic…
By 1960, "soul jazz" was a big trend — music to eat greens and corn… more »
Duke Ellington, Money Jungle…
Jazz is co-operative music: Everyone pulls together, in a little model so… more »
Andrew Hill, Point Of Departu…
Hill was a pianist of no party or clique: a little too outside to be a ha… more »
Jackie McLean, Action (The Ru…
No Blue Note musician personified the home of hard bop's response to … more »
Thelonious Monk, Genius Of Mo…
By the time Monk recorded these quintet and sextet dates for Blue Note in… more »
Cassandra Wilson, Belly Of Th…
The most acclaimed jazz singer of her time gets back to her Mississippi r… more »
Jason Moran, Modernistic…
On this 2002 solo recital, the great younger pianist shows off his range,… more »
Frank Sinatra, In The Wee Sma…
This was actually Sinatra's third original album for Capitol (followi… more »
Bud Powell, The Amazing Bud P…
As bop piano goes, Thelonious Monk had the ideas and tunes, but Bud Powel… more »
Frank Sinatra, A Swingin…
For 55 years, the debate has raged among Sinatraphiles: "Which album do y… more »
Captain Beefheart, Doc At The…
This 1980 set was the Captain's next-to-last before he left the music… more »
The Art Blakey Quintet, A Nig…
Drummer Art Blakey to the audience at Birdland, one night in 1954: "I… more »
Frank Sinatra, Come Fly With …
With the distinctive Taxi-Down-the-Runway intro on the opening song, the … more »
Anthony Williams, Spring…
In the first years of Tony Williams's meteoric rise, people were so b… more »
Sonny Rollins, A Night At The…
Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins was entering his peak decade in 1957, and… more »
Frank Sinatra, A Jolly Christ…
While this may be the only album on this list that doesn't deserve th… more »
Bobby Hutcherson, Dialogue (T…
Although he takes no solos, Bobby Hutcherson's extraordinary Dialogue… more »
Charles Mingus Sextet With Er…
Mingus and Dolphy represented one of the great tandems in jazz, and the m… more »
Herbie Nichols, The Complete …
Blue Note had a thing for visionary composer/pianists like Thelonious Mon… more »
Eric Dolphy, Out To Lunch (Th…
The alto saxophonist/bass clarinetist/flutist had been on a hot streak wh… more »
Lee Morgan, Lee Morgan Sextet…
Years before Lee Morgan's jazz boogaloo "The Sidewinder" made hip Blu… more »
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Kicking at the Boundaries of Metal
By Jon Wiederhorn, eMusic Contributor
As they age, extreme metal merchants often inject various non-metallic styles into their songs in order to hasten their musical growth. Sometimes, as with Alcest and Jesu, they develop to the point where their original… more »