Hard Bop: Best Sellers

Freddie Hubbard's The Artist Selects features tracks the iconic jazz trumpeter culled himself from the best of his '60s output [more]

On Hub Cap, his third effort as a leader, Freddie Hubbard sticks to the tried-and-true hard bop formula, which is something [more]

Freddie Hubbard's first recording as a leader, Open Sesame features the 22-year-old trumpeter in a quintet with [more]

Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard teams up on record with James Spaulding (who doubles on alto and flute) for the first time on [more]

This live double CD is a bit odd. Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard's once beautiful tone was definitely on the decline [more]

Guitar players from two generations in jazz always seem to find common ground, no matter their styles or [more]

The last of six LPs by the Red Rodney-Ira Sullivan Quintet was also the band's finest. There are times in the music (which [more]

By the time of their fifth record, the Red Rodney-Ira Sullivan Quintet also included pianist Garry Dial, bassist Jay [more]

Although brief at just over 42 minutes long, this is a satisfying effort from pianist Kenny Barron. His second Enja release documents a [more]

Label: Verve

Playing piano-style single-note lines on his Hammond B-3 organ, Jimmy Smith revolutionized the use of the instrument in a jazz combo [more]

Label: Philips

On first glance this LP looks like a dud. Dizzy Gillespie and his quintet (with saxophonist James Moody and [more]

Recorded just ten months after Thelonious Monk's death, pianist Tommy Flanagan's tribute features eight of Monk's compositions plus [more]