Ray Charles – The Genius of Ray Charles
By 1959, Ray Charles had already transformed rhythm and blues with a string of groundbreaking hits that blended gospel, blues, jazz, and country into…
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– 1958
Ravi Shankar – The Sounds of India
By the late 1950s, Indian classical music remained largely unfamiliar to Western audiences. While jazz, classical, and folk traditions had begun crossing cultural boundaries,…
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Billie Holiday – Lady in Satin
When Lady in Satin was released in 1958, Billie Holiday was nearing the end of a career that had forever changed the art of…
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Count Basie and His Orchestra + Neal Hefti Arrangements The Atomic Mr. Basie
By the late 1950s, Count Basie had already secured his place among the giants of jazz. His original orchestra had defined the Kansas City…
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Sarah Vaughan and Her Trio At Mister Kelly’s
Live jazz albums often reveal an artist more completely than even the finest studio recordings. Without endless retakes or carefully edited performances, the singer…
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Machito – Kenya
Machito & His Afro-Cubans: Kenya — The Album That Redrew the Map of Jazz Released 1957 (Roulette Records) | Genre: Afro-Cuban Jazz / Mambo…
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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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Ramblin’ Jack Elliott – Jack Takes the Floor
Long before the folk revival reached its commercial peak in the early 1960s, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott was already carrying traditional American songs from coffeehouses…
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