Louis Armstrong: At All About Jazz, C. Andrew Hovan reviews the new Mosaic release, Louis Armstrong & The All Stars: Complete Newport 1956 & 1958. (Purchase the album from Mosaic Records.)
Count Basie: At Take the "A" Train, Ehsan Khoshbakht shares a video of an interview with Count Basie during his first tour of Sweden in 1962.
John Coltrane: Richard Brody writes about the John Coltrane album, Offering: Live at Temple University, at The New Yorker.
Duke Ellington: Ehsan Khoshbakht shares a video from Duke Ellington's first trip to Finland in February 1963 at Take the "A" Train.
Herbie Hancock: At The International Review of Music, Bonnie Perkinson writes about a November 2014 conversation between Herbie Hancock and music critic Don Heckman.
Charlie Parker: According to Jeff Tamarkin at JazzTimes, Mosaic Records has released a nine-disc box set, The Complete Dial Modern Jazz Sessions, which includes all of Charlie Parker’s sessions for Dial from 1946-47. (Purchase the album from Mosaic Records.)
Sun Ra: At Music and More, Tim Niland reviews the Sun Ra album, My Brother the Wind, Volume 1. (Purchase the album from Amazon.com.)
Horace Silver: Marc Myers shares several videos of Horace Silver at JazzWax.
Weather Report: John Fordham reviews the Weather Report album, Forecast: Tomorrow, at The Guardian. (Purchase the album from Amazon.com.)
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