A gutsy, down-home, blues-drenched saxophonist who could make flames burst out of the bell of his horn, Oliver Nelson is probably best remembered for his back-room chores on other musicians' records.

Screamin' the Blues; March On, March On; The Drive; The Meetin'; Three Seconds; Alto-itis. Oiver Nelson: tenor and alto saxophones; Eric Dolphy: alto saxophone and ...

Special to the SentinelWhen Triple Play acquired over 300 classic jazz LPs as a part of a very large collection of records we purchased from an estate in Rangely, I took home every record that had ...

CD1: Full Nelson; Skookian; Miss Fine; Majorca; Cool; Back Woods; Lila's Theme; Ballad for Benny; Hoe Down; Paris Blues; What Kind of Fool Am I?; You Love But Once; Hobo Flats; Post No Bills; A ...

Paul Desmond: Samba with Some Barbecue Originally titled “Struttin' with Some Barbecue" in 1941, this Satchmo tune lost its Dixie beat and got a bossa groove in the hands of the infallible Don Sebesky ...

With his new album, The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Take 2, pianist Bill Cunliffe doesn’t so much reinvent a modern jazz classic as open it for incisive interpretation. Working with clean, ...

Contrast is everything. Think of food for example: A big salty hunk of mature cheese is nicely offset by a couple of sweet grapes. Gastronomes would never dream of eating a rich foie-gras without the ...

Screamin' the Blues is an apt description of the soloists' approach on this 1960 session, here reissued as an RVG remaster, the first of three matching leader Oliver Nelson with avant-gardist Eric ...