An American jazz critic once said that Wes Montgomery was the "best thing that could happen to a guitar." Grand words, one might say quickly racking one's brains to come up with other great names. But after only a few minutes of listening to this live recording made in 1965 at the Half Note in New...

American singer and actress Eartha Kitt was probably the strongest personality in the music world of the 1950s and 1960s. She began her career in the early 1940s, appearing in several Broadway plays throughout the decade. By the early 1950s, she had already entered the Top 30 of American songs,...