Sahib Shihab (Edmund Gregory) played with many of jazz’s finest musicians. Shortly after he became one of the first jazz players to change their names due to an Islamic conversion, he joined Thelonious Monk for his Blue Note sessions. He also played with Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar...

It was in Paris that John Lewis co-led this 1956 date with Sacha Distel, a French guitarist who never became well known in the U.S. but commanded a lot of respect in French jazz circles. The same can be said about the other French players employed on ‘Afternoon in Paris’ — neither tenor...

First opus of the young trumpeter as a leader, Open Sesame is an album with diverse and varied influences. Navigating between Be Bop, Hard Bop, Jazz Funk, Swing, Ballad, and even Caribbean… Surrounded by Tina Brooks on tenor saxophone, McCoy Tyner (21 years old) on piano, Sam Jones on double bass...