Tito Puente – Dance Mania
By the late 1950s, few musicians had done more to bring Afro-Cuban and Latin dance music into the American mainstream than Tito Puente. A…
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– Jazz
Thelonious Monk – Brilliant Corners
By 1957, Thelonious Monk had spent years earning the admiration of fellow musicians while remaining something of an enigma to the broader jazz audience.…
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Miles Davis – Birth of the Cool
Few albums have altered the course of jazz as profoundly as Birth of the Cool. Although the recordings were made between 1949 and 1950…
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Sabu – Palo congo
When discussions turn to the greatest jazz albums of the 1950s, names like Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, and Charles Mingus usually dominate the conversation.…
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Duke Ellington – Ellington at Newport
Few live albums have altered the course of a musician’s career quite like Ellington at Newport. Recorded on July 7, 1956, at the legendary…
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Louis Prima – The Wildest!
Few entertainers have ever embodied pure joy quite like Louis Prima. A singer, trumpeter, bandleader, comedian, and consummate showman, Prima built his reputation on…
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Frank Sinatra – Songs for Swingin’ Lovers!
Just one year after exploring heartbreak and loneliness on In the Wee Small Hours, Frank Sinatra made a dramatic change in mood with Songs…
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Frank Sinatra – In the Wee Small Hours
By the middle of the 1950s, Frank Sinatra had already experienced more highs and lows than most artists encounter in an entire lifetime. Once…
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