Jazz CDs: Best Sellers

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

Leaves of Grass finds pianist Fred Hersch and a stellar ensemble of musicians performing Walt Whitman's classic poetry to music. [more]

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

This Blue Mitchell date is a classic, particularly the opening "Fungii Mama," which is really catchy. The trumpeter's quintet of the [more]

To some, the term "Ethiopian jazz" might seem impossible; after all, it's a very [more]

The music on this CD is from a period when arranger Quincy Jones was a major part of the jazz world, rather than [more]

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

Although arranger Gil Evans had been active in the major leagues of jazz ever since the mid-'40s and had participated in Miles Davis' [more]

The aesthetic and cultural merits of Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music cannot be overstated. That it is one of the most obscure [more]

Piano Man is the title of a Victor Bluebird record cut on July 12, 1939 by Earl "Fatha" Hines and his Orchestra. Piano Man is also the [more]

Although this CD has the same program as the original LP, it gets the highest rating because it is a hard bop [more]

Easily one of the most important records ever made, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme was his pinnacle studio outing that at once [more]