As anyone who collects jazz records will very likely tell you, the rare ones are typically hard earned and usually accompanied by a story or two. Such is the case with the uncommon and definitely ...

This latter-day Charles Mingus group is ripe for reassessment. The new guys, Ricky Ford, Robert Neloms and Jack Walrath carried a heavy burden as they toured South America. The two-CD collection is a ...

CDs 1 & 2: Charles Mingus: bass; Johnny Coles: trumpet; Eric Dolphy: alto saxophone, flute, bass clarinet; Clifford Jordan: tenor saxophone; Jaki Byard: piano; Dannie ...

Confrontational, sprawling and historic, this resurrected March 1964 performance by one of his favorite bands—Johnny Coles (trumpet) and Clifford Jordan (saxophone) with favorite sons Dannie Richmond ...

Heartbeat has two new Studio One CDs out and both are new versions of classic LPs already reissued on CD by Heartbeat in the past. Then there's the amazing new Mingus/Dolphy live set.