Night Lights is a compilation album, pressed on smoky midnight blue vinyl by Jazz Dispensary Records for Record Store Day 2025, featuring 11 cuts from across Moodsville’s catalog.

We're giving some big ups to organ maestro Big John Patton this week. He was one of a number of B3 players to make their mark on Blue Note Records, capturing the aesthetic of the soul jazz movement ...

Explore Craft Recordings’ Record Store Day 2025 preview featuring exclusive releases from Carla Thomas, Thelonious Monk with Gerry Mulligan, and the Jazz Dispensary Night Lights Moodsville Collection.

“I had been following jazz all my short life up to that time, so I knew a great deal about the guys. My particular idols, Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, were both in that picture. Those guys ...

Jazz guitar icon George Freeman passed away on April 1 at the age of 97. The celebrated musician had planned to mark his 98th birthday on April 10 with a series of concerts at Chi ...

After losing three players to the portal, Kansas State basketball ended Monday on a high note by landing UNC-Wilmington ...

Ventura spent much ... Saxophonist Charlie Ventura has gotten a bum rap. For too long he's been thought of as a Coleman Hawkins clone and his vast contributions to jazz and R&B have been overlooked or ...

While practicing and studying the music he worked with John Kirby, Howard McGhee, Coleman Hawkins, Andy Kirk, and Billy Eckstine. In autumn 1947 he began touring in Norman Granz's Jazz at the ...

This is beyond jazz singing; this is mastery in its highest ... including Roy Eldridge and Doc Cheatham on trumpets, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster and Lester Young on tenor saxophones, Gerry ...

Forty years ago Eddie Cook filled in the technical gaps in Burnett James' appraisal and explanation of Coleman Hawkins' saxophone tone. First published in Jazz Journal March 1985 This is another issue ...