Bop: Best Sellers

This CD is a bit of a disappointment, not for the music but for the packaging. During 1979-1980, Biograph came out with two Zoot [more]

This LP, hailed at the time of release and promptly forgotten, is Pete Jolly's masterpiece, a wonderfully emotional electronic tour de force. [more]

In 1981, Sounds of Yesteryear released a collection of Benny Goodman Quintet and Sextet recordings that were originally cut between [more]

Stephen Riley's third CD as a leader for Steeplechase, like his earlier sessions for the label, is a pianoless affair, but the [more]

The Mosaic label, which has become famous as jazz's number one reissue company, usually puts together large multi-disc boxes full [more]

This album, originally released by Epic, features trombonist-arranger Slide Hampton's augmented octet but it was overlooked when it was [more]

Lester Young's influence on younger tenor players was at its height in the early-to-mid-'50s. This enjoyable session [more]

Apparently recorded during the same 1978 European tour that resulted in his Storyville album Live in Copenhagen, [more]

Eighty-three year old clarinetist Buddy DeFranco recorded this pleasantly solid and well-executed mainstream jazz album in December [more]

This 1999 CD reissues an early Herbie Mann set that matches him with his fellow flutist, Sam Most. Originally, this [more]