Jazz CDs: Best Sellers

Despite the fact that pianist and composer Paul Bley had been a renowned and innovative jazzman for nearly 20 years, 1973 saw the release [more]

The first (and mightiest) of Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition ensembles offered a sound that in many ways was revolutionary in [more]

Two former LPs by big bands led by bassist Oscar Pettiford (who doubles on cello) are reissued in full on this single [more]

There is very little to write about a recording as brilliant and passionate as this one. [more]

Other than two numbers cut for the Progressive label in Houston a couple years earlier (and thus far never reissued), this [more]

Duke Jordan, who played regularly with the Charlie Parker Quintet in 1947, has long been known as a superior bebop pianist whose [more]

This CD features Dizzy Gillespie's second great big band at the peak of its powers. On the rapid

If Joe Zawinul was out to prove that he didn't need Weather Report anymore, he succeeded spectacularly in this virtual one-man show. [more]

Ornette Coleman's Atlantic debut, The Shape of Jazz to Come, was a watershed event in the genesis of avant-garde jazz, [more]

This four-CD set brings together all the recordings made during the period of the Hot [more]

One of multi-instrumentalist and composer Yusef Lateef's most enduring recordings, Eastern Sounds was one of the last recordings [more]

Of the collections of Elmo Hope's '50s recordings, Trio and Quintet is the one to get. It includes his prime Blue Note sessions and [more]