It's the music of the great Baden Powell given full-band treatments (not just his work,
but also compositions he wrote with Vinícius de Moraes and Paulo César Pinheiro). Powell's son plays piano on several tracks, while guitarist Mario Adnet is ...
Here is Vince Guaraldi's breakthrough album -- musically, commercially, in every which way. After numerous
records as a leader or sideman, for the first time a recognizable Guaraldi piano style emerges, with whimsical phrasing all his own, a madly swinging ...
Inspired by a trip with his family to Disneyland, Dave Brubeck recorded eight songs taken
from four Disney movies (Alice in Wonderland, Pinocchio, Snow White, and Cinderella), including such melodies as Give a Little Whistle, Heigh Ho, When You Wish ...
This follow-up to The Touch of Your Lips also has the trumpeter/vocalist joined by guitarist
Doug Raney and bassist Niels Pedersen but differs in that the repertoire (Jimmy Heath's For Minor's Only, Hoagy Carmichael's Daybreak, Richard Beirach's Broken Wing and ...
Pianists André Previn and Russ Freeman team up with drummer Shelly Manne in a trio
to play eight of their originals (along with the standard Take Me Out to the Ball Game), all given titles having to do with baseball. ...
Although a touch underrated, Jazz at Oberlin is one of the early Dave Brubeck classic
recordings. The interplay between the pianist-leader and altoist Paul Desmond on Perdido borders on the miraculous, and their renditions of The Way You Look Tonight, ...