Wynton Kelly

Last week I posted about star-crossed trumpeter Don Sleet [pictured] and his sole leadership album All Members. Read More

There are a number of highly talented jazz musicians from the late 1950s who can't really be called great because they recorded too few albums. Read More

Jimmy Cobb is still 'Kind Of Blue' after 50 years. Read More

Fifty years on, drummer Jimmy Cobb still can't believe what he, Miles Davis and five other jazz musicians achieved over two days in a converted church in New York. Read More

Fifty years on, drummer Jimmy Cobb still can't believe what he, Miles Davis and five other jazz musicians achieved over two days in a converted church in New York. Read More

lbums of all time-in any style-ahead of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and The Beatles' "Abbey Road". Read More

Mention "Kind of Blue" and the familiarity and adoration of legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis' 1959 classic album oozes from fans who have enjoyed it in the 50 years since its release. Read More

A major player in hard bop jazz during the 1950s, Nat Adderley pioneered the genre of soul jazz. Read More

Raised in Brooklyn and Boston, and a hardcore New Yorker for a good chunk of the '60s, pianist Steve Kuhn now lives removed from the fray, in a still-not-quite-exurban town on the east bank of the Hudson River, one hour by train from Grand Central Station. Read More

There are few things to say about Miles Davis' 1959 album Kind of Blue that haven't been said already. Read More