Nights of Ballads & Blues is the third album by the jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, released on the Impulse! label in 1963. It features performances by Tyner with Steve Davis and Lex Humphries. The jazz critic Harvey Pekar said in his August 29, 1963, review for Down Beat magazine, "Tyner's playing has many virtues, but one in particular is his tastefulness. There is nothing trivial about his music; he is, to quote an often used phrase, a 'musician's musician'."

The Blues and the Abstract Truth is an album by American composer and jazz saxophonist Oliver Nelson recorded in February 1961. It remains Nelson's most acclaimed album and features a lineup of notable musicians: Freddie Hubbard, Eric Dolphy, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers and Roy Haynes. Baritone saxophonist George Barrow does not take solos but remains a key feature in the subtle voicings of Nelson's arrangements.

"Kind of Blue" is an album most have heard many times before in a wide variety of formats. Now, you can hear it as if you were right there in the recording studio with the musicians! After many years, Sony finally decided to remaster Kind of Blue hi-res at 192kHz/24bit with the brilliant engineer Mark Wilder and the dedicated and knowledgeable producer Steve Berkowtiz (who has spent more time with and knows this album better than anyone out there). The quality of sound on this recording is unparalleled - listening to this release is like being in the studio with Miles.

Don Patterson was an American jazz organist. Patterson played piano from childhood and was heavily influenced by Erroll Garner in his youth. In 1956, he switched to organ after hearing Jimmy Smith play the instrument. "Holiday Soul" is an album of Christmas, recorded in 1964 and released on the Prestige label. This is Don Patterson's most commercially successful album, which reached #85 on the Billboard 200 in 1967.

"Back to Broadway" is the twenty-sixth studio album by Barbra Streisand, released in 1993. The album was Streisand's second collection of songs from Broadway musicals, after 1985's "The Broadway Album". It debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and gave her the title of "only female artist to have a number one album in four different decades". The album has been certified 2× Platinum by the RIAA, her fifth album to do so.

"The New German Hardness pioneers OOMPH! are back with their 14th studio album Richter und Hangman!

Frances Wolff (March 4, 1926 – March 4, 2013), known professionally as Fran Warren, was an American singer.

In its review of pianist Shai Maestro’s ECM leader debut The Dream Thief, All About Jazz spoke of “a searching lyrical atmosphere, emotional eloquence and communal virtuosity that serves the music.

3 time Classical BRIT nominees and YouTube sensations with over 200 million views release their brand new studio album titled “Forever”, containing 13 newly recorded songs and coinciding with a World Tour in 2023, which is the first time overseas since the Covid Lockdown.

Ahead of The upcoming Madame X documentary film (mainly concert, plus her views on the US especially the political climate during the US Leg of the Tour and her hip injury)..

December 2nd is the birthday of Maria Callas, meaning that we are now exactly one year before her centenary.

"Breakout" is an album by jazz organist Johnny Hammond recorded for the Kudu label in 1971. The album was the first release on Creed Taylor's Kudu label, a subsidiary of CTI Records and is the first album that dropped Johnny "Hammond" Smith's surname.

"Higher Ground" is an album by jazz organist Johnny Hammond recorded for the Kudu label. The Allmusic site stating "Some of the arrangements seem, well arranged, but as soon as Smith kicks in, the groove is established". The song "Big Sur Suite" has been sampled multiple times including The Beastie Boys "Pass the Mic" and Dr. Dre in "A Nigga Wit a Gun".

John Robert Smith, also known as Johnny "Hammond" Smith, was an American soul jazz and hard bop organist. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he was a renowned player of the Hammond B-3 organ so earning "Hammond" as a nickname, which also avoided his being confused with jazz guitarist Johnny Smith.

This 1956 session features Ellington and 14 sidemen performing updated recordings of some of the best from Ellington's career going back to 1926. Ellington's reputation has increased since his death in 1974, with thematic repackagings of his signature music often becoming best sellers. Posthumous recognition of his work include a special award citation from the Pulitzer Prize Board.