Miles had not released a studio album in nine years, so The Man With The Horn was like Christmas in July to Jazz Heads.

The Thelonius Monk Canon continues through the generations. Hear Dr. Lonnie Smith and Eric Reed take their turns on Mainstream and Modern on WCLK.

Within 18 months of making Blue Train, John Coltrane would play on Miles Davis' Kind of Blue and produce his own epochal Giant Steps album.

Pianist Bill O'Connell plays listenable, rhythmically interesting Jazz on A Change Is Gonna Come on Savant Records. Hear it on Jazz 91.9 WCLK

The Manely Firm presents Jazz At The Strand "The Music of Billie Holiday" featuring The Jazz Education Project, live performance featured at 9pm Sunday on Mainstream and Modern.

Remy Le Boeuf's Assembly of Shadows Orchestra shines on Architecture of Storms, featured on Mainstream and Modern on WCLK

Mainstream and Modern on Jazz 91.9 WCLK features Clifford Brown and Max Roach Sunday night.

George Cables has a new record out on High Note, called Too Close For Comfort. He’s been releasing records of his own and has performed as a side man…

I’ve been listening a lot to the recent release by Alto Saxophonist, Producer and Arranger Steve Slagle. It's called Nascentia(Panorama Records) . It…

Dave Stryker pops up in a lot of Modern Jazz music I like. He toured for a decade with Stanley Turrentine, and he's worked with a number of Jazz notables…