Jazz Cafee

Although they were never major influences, both Flip Phillips and Charlie Ventura had their moments of fame and were entertaining and hard...

  The sessions that comprise the four discs on this first-rate Mosaic boxed set were done in 1960 and 1961 for the short-lived Candid label....

  Considering the hot pianists of the day were Dave Brubeck, Bill Evans, and George Shearing, what Denny Zeitlin brought to the table as a ...

  Three recordings, one of them previously unreleased (recorded in Hamburg for NDR), and featuring at least two generation of hard-boppers,...

 

  The 12th volume in the Mosaic Select series offers a different view of its chosen artists than on previous issues. For starters, all of ...

  With the release of these sessions, recorded between 1967 and '70, every piece of music from Andrew Hill 's Blue Note recordings h...

  Sidney Bechet , the first great jazz horn soloist to be featured on records, was a remarkable soprano saxophonist and clarinetist. He domi...

  Paul Chambers finally receives the Mosaic Select treatment and there's a surprise tossed in with his catalog for fans and connoisseur...

 Saxophonist/clarinetist John Carter was associated with Ornette Coleman in the '40s in their shared hometown of Fort Worth. Coleman m...

    John Handy is one of the unsung greats of modern jazz -- as saxophonist, composer/arranger and group leader -- especially for the seri...

While most Mosaic limited-edition boxed sets concentrate on recordings by an individual bandleader or a single record label, Boogie Woogie a...

 For hardcore West Coast jazz fans, this Mosaic Select volume will be a kind of treasure-trove, though for most it will simply be a compelli...

  The Mosaic Select treatment has deservedly been given to Big John Patton . There are those who argue that Patton's entire catalog shou...

By the early 1950's, Jamaican-born Dizzy Reece , who is not only an outstanding bop trumpeter, but a fine composer, was playing with top...

  This Mosaic compilation draws from material that comprised five separate RCA Victor LPs of the 1950: Al Cohn 's The Natural Seven and...

  Relatively unknown as far as storming tenor players go, Texas-born Curtis Amy perhaps wasn't so storming after all, as this se...

  Freddie Slack was the pianist with Jimmy Dorsey's orchestra during part of the 1930s before becoming well known for playing boogie-w...

 The 13th volume in Mosaic's limited-edition Select series showcases the late work of the late pianist and composer Don Pullen . Contain...

 Mosaic gets plenty of accolades for its expansive (and sometimes exhaustive) limited-edition box sets of historic jazz recordings, and dese...