Any fan of The Microscopic Septet can tell you that the band is a Monk specialist.  The slightly off-center feel of The Micros over the year...

For me, Cassandra Wilson raised the bar for jazz singers in the last two decades.  High.  On the one hand she started out singing jazz from ...

There are at least two important jazz developments from last year that I haven't written about yet.  One is the emergence—with great vol...

Randy Weston is surely an under-appreciated jazz pianist.  Most fans will know that Weston wrote the standard "Hi Fly" (about, it ...

The definitive recording of Dave Brubeck's entire career, people should know, are not on this new collection.  The sides for which the p...

The industry that Return to Forever has become is offering up an intriguing new piece of product: Forever , the first release from just the ...

Eddie Henderson is best known for his trumpet work in Herbie Handcock's Mwandishi Band from the early 1970s.  That was a great band, no ...