Album Guides

9 articles

• Blue Train by John Coltrane: Album Guide and Listening Notes

  Explore John Coltrane’s Blue Train album with verified personnel, the original five-track program, and focused notes on Moment’s Notice harmony.

• Kind of Blue: Album Guide, Personnel, and Listening Notes

  Explore the Kind of Blue album, with verified recording dates, track-specific personnel, the original track list, and focused listening notes.

• Maiden Voyage by Herbie Hancock: Album Guide and Listening Notes

  Explore Herbie Hancock’s Maiden Voyage album with verified session details, personnel, original track list, and focused piano listening notes.

• Moanin’ by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Album Guide

  Explore Art Blakey’s Moanin’ album with its original title history, verified personnel and track list, plus gospel, blues, and rhythm notes.

• Portrait in Jazz by Bill Evans Trio: Album Guide and Listening Notes

  Explore the Portrait in Jazz album with verified session details, personnel, original track list, and notes on voice leading and trio interplay.

• Saxophone Colossus by Sonny Rollins: Album Guide and Listening Notes

  Explore Sonny Rollins’s Saxophone Colossus album with verified dates, personnel, original track list, and practical jazz listening notes.

• Somethin’ Else by Cannonball Adderley: Album Guide and Listening Notes

  Explore Cannonball Adderley’s Somethin’ Else album with verified personnel, the original track list, Miles Davis’s role, and piano notes.

• Speak No Evil by Wayne Shorter: Album Guide and Listening Notes

  Explore Wayne Shorter’s Speak No Evil album with verified recording and release details, personnel, original track list, and piano notes.

• Waltz for Debby by Bill Evans Trio: Album Guide and Listening Notes

  Explore the Waltz for Debby album with its verified Village Vanguard date, trio personnel, original track list, and focused piano notes.