That Coleman Hawkins jumped on the jazz/bossa nova bandwagon craze initiated by Stan Getz in 1962 was a bit of a surprise to his fans, but that he was comfortable in the idiom should not be off-putting. Able to adapt to any style over his lengthy career, the legendary tenor saxophonist chose classic standards adapted to Brazilian rhythms, music from masters like Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto, and a Manny Albam original. Producer Bob Thiele and music director Albam were strong in their resolve directing Hawkins to do this project, and the results are fairly predictable, especially considering that every single track is played in midtempo. The difference is the deployment of two guitarists in Barry Galbraith (lead) and Howard Collins (rhythm) split into separate stereo channels, with bassist Major Holley and no full kit drummer, although Eddie Locke with a minimal and stripped-down setup, Willie Rodriguez, and even Tommy Flanagan play small Latin percussion instruments.

On A Monday Evening offers jazz fans a rare treat: an unreleased (and never bootlegged!) concert recording of The Bill Evans Trio, featuring Eddie Gomez and Eliot Zigmund. Captured live at Madison, Wisconsin's Union Theater on Monday, November 15, 1976, this recording finds Evans at the top of his game, performing both contemporary compositions from that era, as well as his longstanding signature tunes to a packed house. New liner notes by GRAMMY Award-winning jazz historian Ashley Kahn round out the package, featuring commentary by Eddie Gomez and Eliot Zigmund.

Jethro Tull s second album, Stand Up, marked an early turning point for the band with the addition of guitarist Martin Barre along with Ian Anderson s introduction of folk-rock influences to the group s blues-based sound. Released in the summer of 1969, Stand Up rose quickly to the top of the U.K. Albums Chart, and eventually earned gold certification in the U.S.

The brilliant pianist and composer Thelonious Monk is 100 years old this year. It's not enough to say that his music is still alive. With its timeless density, it will never have seemed stronger, more inspiring, more modern. On the occasion of the release of New Monk Trio, Laurent de Wilde's group offers a personal and original reinterpretation of the master's repertoire.

He’s been touring with David Guetta and to top it all off, he’s not even twenty years old yet. Kungs is like a breath of fresh air to this genre, including a mix of real instruments in his songs, horns and whistles along with tons of fun features on the album. Wolfgang, Lune, Rae Morris, Ephemerals and so many more artists are featured on this collection of songs. Featured artists on albums are great, but more than anything an album that has variety is something pretty significant. Normally that’s hard to do in the world of EDM.

For much of the three and a half year period since the release of Lost In The Dream, The War On Drugs' frontman, Adam Granduciel, led the charge for his Philadelphia-based sextet as he holed up in studios in New York and Los Angeles to write, record, edit, and tinker-but, above all, to busy himself in work. Teaming up with engineer Shawn Everett (Alabama Shakes, Weezer), Granduciel challenged the notion of what it means to create a fully realized piece of music in today's modern landscape.

"Dar Shems" or "the house of the sun" and the opening to the account of a wandering, a profile disappeared: Abu Sadiya. You listen to the breath of Yacine Boulares, saxophonist and Franco-Tunisian clarinettist installed in New York who invites beside him the American drummer Nasheet Waits and the French cellist Vincent Segal. Trio training quite rare for a project almost narrative.

Dave Koz is one of the most popular smooth jazz artists in the world and his Christmas albums are unparalleled. For his 2017 addition to his oeuvre of Holiday hits, he revisits some of the songs on his first Christmas album 'December Makes Me Feel This Way'' exactly 20 years later. The album is Dave plus "Friends", this time the special guests include David Benoit, Rick Braun and Peter White. It's a formula that saw success with previous Summer Horns and Christmas albums. Dave has continually shown skill and showmanship and has proven that he can deliver what holiday music fans crave.