Not many people knew about jazz improvisation until these historic numbers were recorded in the late 1920s! Hear the brilliant horn and scat singing that made Armstrong a star on West End Blues;... more

A Miles masterpiece as the artist transitions from old to new! Frelon Brun; Tout de Suite; Petits Machins; Mademoiselle Mabry, and Filles de Kilimanjaro.

Sextant is the eleventh studio album by Herbie Hancock, released in 1973 by Columbia. It is his last album with his early '70s Mwandishi-era Band.

Taj put a raw, rockin' spin on classic blues on his absolutely killer 1968 debut. Jesse Ed Davis and Ry Cooder join in on Statesboro Blues; Checkin' Up on My Baby; Diving Duck Blues; Dust My Blues;... more

This fantastic live album from 1979 includes Brown Street; Slang; their hit Birdland and more!

Alternate takes on a Monk solo LP are a revelation, and this reissue of his 1965 Columbia solo LP is packed with seven of 'em plus an additional bonus track!

A Grammy winner from '78 featuring fellow Chicago legends Jimmy Rogers and Big Walter Horton! I'm Ready; Hoochie Koochie Man, and the rest of the LP join three unreleased bonus tracks!

A Tribute to Jack Johnson is a studio album and soundtrack by American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Miles Davis. It was originally released on February 24, 1971, by Columbia Records. It's... more

Expanding on the concepts of the surprise hit Time Out, this album is all at once darkly ruminative, melodic, dissonant and engaging! Includes Bluette; Unsquare Dance; Bru's Boogie Woogie; Blue... more

Seven Steps to Heaven is the product of two separate sessions recorded during Miles' search for a new sound in early 1963. Victor Feldman, a young Herbie Hancock and an even younger Tony Williams... more

This album features the guitar and vocal style that helped define Delta blues, generations before it moved north to Chicago. Includes Death Letter; Preachin' Blues; Levee Camp Moan; Downhearted... more

The fourth studio album by the second great Miles Davis quintet (and the second recorded in 1967), Nefertiti marked yet another metamorphosis in Miles' career. Includes Fall; Hand Jive; Madness;... more

On this 1970 LP, the quintessential blues songwriter performs his own tunes—every one a classic: I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man; The Little Red Rooster; Spoonful; Back Door Man, and more!

This inventive post-bop treasure finds Miles totally reenergized by the young talent of his second quintet. His first album of new material in six years is a brilliantly excecuted exercise in tension... more