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.

Disorder At The Border; La Rosita; Bean & The Boys; Honeysuckle Rose; Body And Soul; Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho. Bennie Wallace: tenor saxophone, leader; Brad Leali: alto saxophone; Jesse Davis: ...

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 ...

I started listening to jazz, and I became acquainted with the giants of the jazz saxophone world: Charlie Parker; Coleman Hawkins; Sonny Rollins; Paul Desmond. Power, finesse, minimal saliva.

Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster and Lester Young on tenor saxophones, Gerry Mulligan on baritone sax, Vic Dickenson on trombone, Milt Hinton on bass, Osie Johnson on drums, and Billie’s then ...

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 ...

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 ...

Coleman Hawkins, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, Sarah Vaughan, Louis Jordan, The Ink Spots, the Mills Brothers, Billie Holiday and Charlie Christian. In his teens, he fell in love with Dizzy Gillespie ...

Today in Music History for April 18: ...

At an early age, Rickey came up listening to such greats as Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Stan Getz, John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Charlie Parker and Sonny Stitt. Rickey’s favorite saxophone players ...

Only one of them, the jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins ... My particular idols, Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, were both in that picture. Those guys are much beyond me, but I guess I’ll ...