Larry Kart

Producer Orrin Keepnews new label makes a rather depressing debut with this set, which manages to mess up the music of one of jazz` most attractive players, vibraharpist Bobby Hutcherson....

Thanks to Holland`s Criss Cross label for recording tenor saxophonist Warne Marsh, who is, as fellow Lennie Tristano-disciple Lee Konitz once said, one of the purest improvisers jazz has ever...

Jimmy Raney is the master, the most remarkable jazz guitarist alive and one of the most satisfying improvisers on any instrument. These albums, recorded by the Criss Cross label in...

If you`re looking for an album that recaptures the feeling of the best Blue Note blowing dates of the 1950s and `60s, this is it--an intense, immaculately rehearsed session that...

An essential set for anyone who follows the so-called ''free jazz'' movement, this is the NRG Ensemble`s second fine album--more accessible that the first (on the Nessa label) but just...

A neoclassical strain runs through a lot of today`s jazz, and it`s very prominent on this set, pleasantly tempered on some tracks by De Johnette`s ability to write sweetly swinging...

Playing cornet on his own album and fluegelhorn on the Parlan set, Thad Jones is the main focus of interest here--a unique solo voice whose gifts have been obscured a...

There`s no jazz singer who is any more of a jazz singer than Anita O`Day, as these two albums, one from the late 1940s (''Hi Ho Trailus Boot Whip'') and...

This quietly influential 1956 album, reissued after being out of print many years, is essential listening for anyone who favors ECM- and Windham Hill-style music, because Giuffre was a key...

This handsomely packaged, five-record boxed set collects (in remastered versions) all of the bossa nova recordings Stan Getz made for Verve, beginning with his 1962 collaboration with guitarist Charlie Byrd...