Jazz

Ornette Coleman's Atlantic debut, The Shape of Jazz to Come, was a watershed event in the genesis of avant-garde jazz.

Simone's first studio album with Colpix contains some great singing and piano from Simone as well as fine, subtle accompaniment on guitar from Al Schackman.

There is a remarkable amount of variety on this record, Nina Simone's second recording released in 1959.

As one of the era’s only complete start-to-finish full-length LPs, the 1957 set stands as a hard-bop benchmark.

Birth of the Cool remains one of the defining, pivotal moments in jazz.

The complicated rhythm patterns and diverse sonic textures on Olé Coltrane are evidence that John Coltrane was once again charting his own course.

Though Baker was by the late 1950's known as much for his singing as his trumpet playing, this album is entirely instrumental.