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Samara Joy is a singing star in ascendancy: the young vocalist attracted attention in 2019 after winning the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. Now, the 21-year-old announces her self-titled debut release, which puts her spin on jazz standards from the Great American Songbook. Produced by Grammy-nominated veteran Matt Pierson, she's joined by jazz guitar virtuoso Pasquale Grasso and his trio (Ari Roland and Kenny Washington) for a...

The modal, post-bop genre of jazz that Coltrane embraces brings brilliant material to this album as he features the legendary Duke Ellington and Johnny Hartman.

Over the course of his career, Seal has sold over 50 million albums globally. Now his iconic voice is tackling timeless songs includes three bonus tracks.

Nicknamed the Prince of Darkness, jazz trumpeter and bandleader Miles Davis was one of the brightest lights in the jazz world. Miles Davis: Jazz Master introduces readers to this talented but troubled jazz visionary and his music. The most highly recognized series on African Americans celebrates Black History Month all year long! Journey to Freedom: The African American Library provides fascinating information on the heroic stories of African Americans...

Introduces the origins and elements of the musical styles known as jazz and the blues.

A vibrant and joyous 12-song set that finds Norah Jones singing about feeling free, wanting to dance, making it right, and acceptance of what life brings. It's the yang to the yin that was Pick Me Up Off the Floor, Jones's last album of new original songs, which was released in the pandemic lockdown of 2020 and foreshadowed many of the dark emotions of that period.

Esperanza Spalding's new album explores how songwriters may incorporate knowledge in consultation with practitioners of music therapy, neuroscience, and more to create music that can have a specific effect on the listener. These twelve new songs were created and recorded with different musicians in her traveling lab over the past several months and follow her Grammy Award-winning album from 2019, 12 Little Spells.