released one of her great and unparalleled jazz albums in 1956 and was reissued last year. The 12-inch vinyl pressing for Lady Sings the Blues was done by Vinyl Me, Please (VMP). The album has a ...

This is one of the best of the plethora of pop covers that draw from early jazz in particular. 7. Brad Mehldau, “Blackbird” Masterful jazz pianist Brad Mehldau shows his versatility on this ...

Blue Note Records has embodied the best jazz has to offer for over 80 years ... snapping photos of the artists as they performed or kicked back between takes. Cover-designer Reid Miles was the man who ...

and the way their sleeve designs imitated famous jazz album covers — it’s done out of love, not mockery. I recently saw a pretty amazing movie that made that earnestness into its crowning virtue.

It's widely held that Miles Davis' 1959 album Kind of Blue is the greatest ... playing over "All Blues," what Trane was doing on "So What." And it clicked. Anyway, blah blah jazz blah.

Rather, they are the ages of three storied jazz saxophonists ... she delivers an album whose qualitative excellence is matched by her inviting sense of adventure. Immanuel Wilkins, “Blues ...

The 10 albums listed below are the best jazz releases of the year ... or dig deep into the blues — lay down thick, pulsing jazz grooves over which Knuffke and Goldberg take energetic, lyrical ...

Here are my picks for the year’s 10 best new jazz albums—a diverse ... insistently tapping the blues. This is one of John Zorn’s most purely pleasurable albums in a while, yet it’s not ...

Six of my 10 favorite jazz albums ... is one of the few albums that capture the great and tragic singer-pianist Nina Simone in all her dimensions—heartbreak ballads, jazz, blues, rock, African ...

But on the trio’s quietly stunning third album, a series of extended and reimagined covers ... Jazz Guitar: The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz, but the best guitarists ...