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One of the premier hard bop drummers of his era, by 1948 while still a teenager in Harlem, Art Taylor had played drums in church with Jackie McLean and Sonny Rollins. He also played with Howard McGhee and other young bop musicians in New York. In the early 50s he was also to be heard in mainstream groups, playing with Buddy De Franco and Coleman Hawkins. He continued to play with leading beboppers, including Bud Powell, and Art Farmer. Later in the decade was with Miles Davis and John Coltrane. From time to time he led his own bands, notably Taylor’s Wailers, and toured the States and Europe with Donald Byrd, and did a short stint with Thelonious Monk in 1959

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Miles '56: The Prestige Recordings

By Miles Davis

Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2026
Track listing: CD 1: In Your Own Sweet Way (March 16, 1956 version); No Line; Vierd Blues; In Your Own Sweet Way (May 11, 1956 version); Diane; Trane’s Blues; Something I Dreamed Last Night; It Could Happen to You; Woody’n You; Ahmad’s Blues. CD2: Surrey with the Fringe on Top; It Never Entered My Mind; When I Fall in Love; Salt Peanuts; Four; The Theme (Take 1); The Theme (Take 2); If I Were a Bell; Well, You Needn’t. CD3: ’Round Midnight; Half Nelson; You’re My Everything; I Could Write a Book; Oleo; Airegin; Tune Up; When Lights Are Low; Blues by Five; My Funny Valentine.

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Soul Junction

By Red Garland

Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2026

Article: Profile

The Discreet Charm of Tete Montoliu

by Con Chapman
September 9, 2026

In 1947 tenor saxophonist Don Byas, a transplant from America following a tour of Europe, joined a society orchestra--complete with strings--to play dates in Spain. After their ballroom engagement was over, Byas and the band's rhythm section would jam until the early morning hours when they would be forced to quit “either because the police burst ...

Article: Album Review

Miles Davis: Miles '56: The Prestige Recordings

Read "Miles '56: The Prestige Recordings" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
June 29, 2026

The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus never met Miles Davis, but his famous observation, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man," seems tailor-made for the trumpeter. Few artists transformed themselves as completely or as often as Davis. Listeners encountering his music today can ...

Article: Interview

Ron Carter: Sweet Notes: The Gospel According To An Upright Man

by Ian Patterson
June 10, 2026

There is just no slowing down for bassist Ron Carter. At least, not that you would know. Writing, arranging, recording, gigging, teaching, media commitments--it is all in a day's work for the indefatigable 89-year-old NEA Jazz Master. Since 1959, when he arrived in New York from his native Detroit, Ron Carter has enjoyed an unparalleled career. ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

In the Land of Giants: OJCs from Thad Jones and Red Garland

by C. Andrew Hovan
March 6, 2026

The late 1950s marked a particularly fertile period in jazz. Big bands still commanded audiences, while smaller combos often blended veterans of the swing era with the rising architects of modern bop. Musicians such as Thad Jones, Frank Wess, Illinois Jacquet, and Coleman Hawkins moved fluidly among ensembles, thriving in a moment before the stylistic fault ...

Article: Jazz & Juice

Winter Wine & Song

by Kristen Lee Sergeant
February 4, 2026

These days, and especially in January, it seems like we're saturated in conversations about the question: “to drink, or not to drink?" The topic is nearly always about alcohol --a broad genus with many varied species from moonshine to Château d'Yquem. It's like talking about the entirety of foodstuffs as “calories" and failing to distinguish between ...

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Looking Ahead

By Makanda Ken McIntyre

Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Lautir; Curtsy; Geo's Tune; They All Laughed; Head Shakin'; Dianna.

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Miles '55: The Prestige Recordings

By Miles Davis

Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: I Didn't; Will You Still Be Mine; I See Your Face Before Me; A Night in Tunisia; A Gal in Calico; Dr. Jackle; Bitty Ditty; Minor March; Changes; Stablemates; How Am I To Know/ Just Squeeze Me; There Is No Greater Love; The Theme; S'posin.