Essential? Darn close. Pianist Mal Waldron and soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy ... and Chris Pattishall (who's on piano here). Two of the best jazz-adjacent vocal albums released this year, against ...

Last month, we started looking at essential Missouri albums by decade. Here are six great '80s records that rose up from ...

Essential? Darn close ... and Chris Pattishall (who's on piano here). Two of the best jazz-adjacent vocal albums released this year, against stiff competition, were the work of Ganavya, a serenely ...

The Way You Look Tonight; 20, Rue De Madrid; Never You Mind; Over The Rainbow; The Wailing Boat; Somebody Wants Me Down There; Blue Birdland; Straight Up; Free Lee; Everybody Moan; Tag Team; Newport; ...

Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's spectacular transition from acoustic folk singer in the '60s through folk-rock 'n' roller in the early '70s to leader of jazz-inflected bands in the mid-'70s ...