Bop: Best Sellers

Pianist Barry Harris' second recording as a leader (he led a set for Argo in 1958) finds him at the [more]

As a sort of follow-up to Art Pepper's match-up with Miles Davis' trio in the 1957 classic Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section, [more]

This is a true classic. Altoist Art Pepper is joined by an 11-piece band playing Marty [more]

Miles Davis was in the process of forming his first classic quintet when he recorded this date, a Prestige set reissued by the [more]

Since this set (reissued on CD) was originally recorded for the Prestige subsidiary Moodsville, most of the [more]

During 1956-57 trumpeter Donald Byrd and altoist Phil Woods (both important up-and-coming players) were [more]

Label: Riverside/OJC

For a little while in the mid-'50s, Zoot Sims occasionally doubled on alto although he soon switched back exclusively to tenor where he [more]

Many straight-ahead bop musicians would never consider recording traditional folk songs from the British [more]

Label: Prestige/OJC

This set lives up to its title by including such interesting sessions as the 1953 date on which Miles Davis welcomed the two tenors [more]

A good seven years after their first recorded foray into the trio format, guitarist Nguyên Lê, drummer Peter Erskine (of [more]

Legend has it producer Norman Granz experienced considerable frustration during the years when Ella Fitzgerald [more]