Bop: Best Sellers

Label: JCT

In 1956, trumpeter Thad Jones was making his way forward as a leader and apart from his important role with the Count [more]

Stan Getz was one of Lester Young's very best students. From Pres he learned the fine arts of inspired improvisation and smooth, intimate [more]

Pianist Thelonious Monk's appearance with a tentet at a 1959 Town Hall concert was a major [more]

Volume ten in the Classics Dizzy Gillespie chronology documents this trumpeter's recording activities from December 9, 1953 to June 8, [more]

Blue Note's Great Sessions: Miles Davis packages three of the innovative trumpeter's most iconic early recordings from the '50s. [more]

It is surprising that Oscar Peterson's first solo piano album was not [more]

Label: Contemporary/OJC

The timeless Way out West established Sonny Rollins as jazz's top tenor saxophonist (at least until John Coltrane surpassed him the [more]

Ray Brown was in at the beginning of the Concord Jazz record label in the early '70s, and starting with Brown's Bag in 1975, [more]

The Best of Odyssey 1945-1952 is a solid compilation of Savoy sides recorded by jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie at the [more]

This excellent three-disc set contains 64 great songs performed by Dizzy Gillespie and company in varied settings. Odyssey: [more]

Recorded in 1958, this legendary date with the still-undersung Sonny Clark in the leader's chair also featured a young [more]