AronChupa ft. Little Sis Nora

Hargrove died after suffering cardiac arrest on Friday night.

Caro Emerald

Xavier Cugat and Orchestra featuring Lalo Schifrin

Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong

Hazel Scott, Charles Mingus, Rudy Nichols

The Apollo Trio

Berry Gordy hedged his bets in 1962.Though the founder of Motown Records had his first #1 Billboard pop and R&B hit with the Marvelettes' Please Mr. Postman in late 1961, the following year was dry.

The modern jazz piano starts with Bud Powell. In fact, it's almost impossible to fully appreciate any post-World War II jazz pianist without first studying Powell's recordings. Thelonious Monk would be the exception, but even with Monk, there are connections...

Fats Waller, Ada Brown

Vibist Bobby Hutcherson's first leadership album for Blue Note was The Kicker, recorded in December 1963. Strangely, it wasn't released until 1999 when the tapes were discovered. The album featured several nifty originals, but it's the songbook standard that stands...

Brooklyn Raga Massive

On March 6, 1963, saxophonist John Coltrane was at Rudy Van Gelder's recording studio in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. with pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones. Between 1 and 6 p.m., Coltrane's "classic quartet" recorded 14 songs,...

1988 Belgian music

Caro Emerald

Andrea Motis, Joan Chamorro Quintet & Scott Hamilton

He was a drummer at heart. Explains the rhythm for dancing.

Ella Fitzgerald

When Eric Kloss recorded Introducing Eric Kloss at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., in September 1965 he couldn't drive. For one, he was blind since birth. For another, he was just 16. But even at that early...