Muddy Waters plugged in the Delta blues and created Chicago electric bluesMusic linernotes album music
McKinley Morganfield — aka Muddy Waters — took his name from a local creekMusic linernotes album music
Monk's Music captures a legendary 1957 — the same year Monk recorded with Coltrane at the Five SpotMusic linernotes album music
Glenn Gould assembled his definitive 1955 Goldberg Variations from multiple takes and extensive splicingMusic linernotes album music
Columbia Records launched Glenn Gould's international career with the 1955 Goldberg VariationsMusic linernotes album music
The Workin' sessions captured Miles Davis live at Van Gelder's with minimal overdubsMusic linernotes album music
Relaxin' lives up to its name — slower tempos and ballads set it apart from the other Prestige sessionsMusic linernotes album music
Reid Miles designed Miles Davis's Cookin' cover, illustrated by Phil HaysMusic linernotes album music
Miles Davis's 'If I Were a Bell' solo is widely studied by jazz musicians.Music linernotes album music
"Sheets of sound" — the phrase coined for Coltrane in the Soultrane liner notesMusic linernotes album music
Verve Records — Norman Granz's jazz label — released Oscar Peterson's live recordingMusic linernotes album music
Ella Fitzgerald's Cole Porter Songbook: 32 tracks from the landmark 1956 double albumMusic linernotes album music
Ella Fitzgerald's Cole Porter Songbook launched the Verve Songbook seriesMusic linernotes album music
Ella Fitzgerald recorded the Cole Porter Songbook in three days at Capitol's Hollywood studioMusic linernotes album music
Duke Ellington and his orchestra backed Ella Fitzgerald on her Songbook albumMusic linernotes album music
Chet Baker's soft, boyish voice defined the cool jazz sound on Chet Baker SingsMusic linernotes album music
Thelonious Monk's Brilliant Corners was recorded over three sessions in 1956Music linernotes album music
Thelonious Monk's Brilliant Corners landed in the National Recording RegistryMusic linernotes album music
Thelonious Monk and Horace Silver each played piano on different sessions of Bags' Groove.Music linernotes album music
The Art of the Saxophone showcases Sonny Rollins' versatility across stylesMusic linernotes album music
Kind of Blue was recorded at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in two 1959 sessionsMusic linernotes album music
John Coltrane's 'Blue Train' sextet paired him with Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, and moreMusic linernotes album music
Harry Partch was born in Oakland to parents who had been missionaries in ChinaMusic linernotes album music
Harry Partch built his tuning system on just intonation, not equal temperamentMusic linernotes album music
Bill Evans recorded Portrait in Jazz just eight months after Kind of BlueMusic linernotes album music
Benny Golson wrote four of the six tracks on Moanin' — his only U.S, album with the Jazz MessengersMusic linernotes album music
Art Blakey ran the Jazz Messengers like a school for young talent — the Moanin' lineup was its finestMusic linernotes album music
'Blue in Green' connects Portrait in Jazz to Kind of Blue — with disputed authorshipMusic linernotes album music
Peace Piece runs six and a half minutes on a single repeating two-chord figureMusic linernotes album music
Evans's Peace Piece is a two-chord meditation with Debussy's fingerprintsMusic linernotes album music
Bill Evans' Peace Piece showed that jazz could sound as composed as classicalMusic linernotes album music
