After years of intensive recording projects and concerts for jazz aficionados throughout the U.S., four San Diego-based musicians came together with a purpose: explore the art of song in their own ...

Barry Graham sat on the floor of a windowless storage room, deep inside the maze of white hallways of WHRO. The radio host leaned toward a low shelf, scanning the tightly packed vinyl records, his ...

Looking for an easy way to get better sound quality out of your stereo system? Audiophile jazz vinyl pressings are a great place to start. A big bone of contention in audiophile circles is which stage ...

Audio connoisseurs have lectured about the quality of vinyl records for generations. Whether it’s through the voice of a relative who grew up listening to vinyl or hipster friends, you had in your ...

Horns a Plenty: Four jazz vinyl reissues deliver vintage trumpet sounds by Miles Davis, Donald Byrd and Clark Terry in amazing fidelity for a fraction of collector’s market pricing. Four great jazz ...

There is so much great music happening in our club, night after night. We didn't want that all to get lost in the wind. Four short years ago I had the pleasure of attending and putting pen to paper ...

THERE are two kinds of obsessive record collectors: those who buy original pressings of rare old LPs because they’re rare and old, and those who buy them because they sound good. In the jazz world one ...

A couple great duet records were recently reissued by Craft Recordings as part of its ongoing series of Latin reissues. Especially exciting is the debut by Panamanian singer/songwriter Ruben Blades, ...

Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard performed at the Blue Morocco in 1967 with other top jazz artists like Bennie Maupin, Kenny Barron, Herbie Lewis and Freddie Waits. Their never-before-distributed live show ...

The two volumes that reach independent record stores on Black Friday, “Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse 1963-1964” and “Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse 1965-1966,” will come out ...