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How Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and three other musicians walked into Columbia's 30th Street Studio in 1959 and changed music forever.

How John Coltrane's spiritual awakening and the classic quartet produced one of the most important recordings in music history, in a single session.

Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro, and Paul Motian played five sets at the Village Vanguard on a Sunday in 1961. Eleven days later, LaFaro was dead. What remained was immortal.

Every jazz format from two players to twenty, the instruments behind each one, and the greatest groups that ever played them.

From prewar dance halls to Three Blind Mice to the fusion decade, how Japan built one of the world's great jazz cultures.

Sixty albums across four eras: the Prestige years, Classic Columbia, the electric period, and the comeback.

Forty-eight albums across six decades: from the Riverside debut through the Jazztet years, the Japanese sessions, and the triumphant late career.

35 albums, from the Prestige hard bop years through A Love Supreme and the late-period free records, plus posthumous live releases.

From the Three Sounds' funky, bluesy soul jazz through solo Blue Note sessions, the Concord renaissance with his Quartet and Superband, and rare archival recordings. Fifty-eight albums across five eras.

Nobody had a bigger, warmer sound on the tenor. Forty-four records from Jug across four eras: the early bop years, the Boss Tenor period, the Prestige vault sessions, and the remarkable comeback.

The man who brought the shakuhachi into jazz, from the debut through the masterpiece Ginkai and a lifetime of explorations across bossa nova, solo recital, and world music.

From Congo Square in New Orleans to Kamasi Washington in Los Angeles, a decade-by-decade guide to every era, every city, every argument.

From Ronnie Foster's Mystic Brew to ATCQ to Kendrick Lamar, the full story of how producers built hip hop on a foundation of jazz.

Hard bop to jazz-funk and back, across forty-seven albums. Detroit beginnings, Blue Note prime, the Mizell Brothers era, and the best-selling Blue Note record of all time.

The most technically gifted jazz trombonist who ever lived, reviewed complete: from the West Coast quintet dates on Capitol and Bethlehem through the Italian sessions and the posthumous Last Recording.

Japan's great Dixieland trumpeter, reviewed complete: the Columbia big band sessions, the Express small group and ensemble dates, and the memorial Farewell on Kiva.

From the Columbia debut through the early Japanese sessions, the East Wind peak, and the New York fusion turn with Scofield, Carter, and Tony Williams.

Japan's first jazz drumming bandleader, from the Sankei Hall recital to the Black Mode breakthrough, through Plays Horace Silver and the late-career Video Hall concert.

From the CBS/Sony commercial dates to the soul jazz fire of Dosojin and The Underground Rulers, thirty-one albums spanning one of Japanese jazz's most prolific saxophonists.

The complete discography of one of Japan's most gifted saxophonists: from his Three Blind Mice sessions through fifty years of recordings.

Four CBS/Sony records that trace a young trombonist finding his voice, and Cat, the Three Blind Mice masterpiece that remains one of the most sought-after records in Japanese jazz.

The complete discography of the Sapporo pianist who taught himself jazz from records and made Scenery at thirty-two, including two posthumous releases.

The bebop universalist who never stopped swinging. From the early Prestige dates with Bud Powell and J.J. Johnson through the Verve battles with Dizzy Gillespie and the late Muse renaissance.

The middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone. From the debut quartet with Horace Silver and Art Blakey through the Prestige sessions and the classic Blue Note run with Lee Morgan and Sonny Clark.

The New Testament band at its peak. From the early Dance Sessions through the Neal Hefti masterpieces and the Lambert, Hendricks and Ross collaboration.

The man who broke jazz open. From the first pianoless quartet on Something Else!!!! through Free Jazz's double quartet and the orchestral Chappaqua Suite.

The man who invented the jazz tenor saxophone spent his final decade making records that matched his earlier peak. From The Hawk in Paris to his last session Sirius.

From the solo saxophone of For Alto to the orchestral sprawl of Creative Orchestra Music, twelve albums from one of the AACM's most rigorous minds.

Twenty-two albums from one of the most original voices in jazz. Alto saxophone, bass clarinet, flute: Dolphy played all three at the highest level.

Twenty-six albums from the greatest jazz guitarist who ever lived. From the Indianapolis club records through Full House and the A&M sessions.

The inventor of cool, running out the clock on one of the great careers in jazz. Nine Verve-era records from Pres, including the final Paris recordings.

Forty-four albums across nearly six decades, from the Mills College Octet through the odd-meter experiments and the long late career.

The Jazz Messengers launched more careers than any other band in jazz. Fifteen essential records, from the Blue Note classics through Straight Ahead.

Fifty-one albums across five decades: from Carnegie Hall through the classic Verve trio, the MPS years, the Pablo sessions, and the final Telarc dates.

Fifty-five albums across four eras: the Riverside trio, the Verve years, the Fantasy period, and the final recordings at the Village Vanguard and Keystone Korner.

From Masterpieces by Ellington through the Newport triumph, Such Sweet Thunder, and Ellington Indigos: the most acclaimed decade of his career.

From the All Stars live recordings through the Columbia songbooks, the Ella and Louis duets, and Porgy and Bess: the Indian summer of the greatest trumpet player in jazz.

From the Vee-Jay hard bop sessions through Speak No Evil and Adam's Apple to Native Dancer and Atlantis: one of the most extraordinary compositional careers in post-bop jazz.

From his first session through the brilliant quintet with Clifford Brown, Jazz in 3/4 Time, and Deeds Not Words: the formative years of bebop's defining drummer.

Jazz and classical recordings on Columbia, from the debut through Black Codes, the Handel and Purcell concertos, and Live at Blues Alley.

From Now He Sings, Now He Sobs through Return to Forever and Crystal Silence: the formative years of one of the most inventive pianists in modern jazz.

The complete discography of the greatest arranger in jazz, from Gil Evans and Ten through the Hendrix tribute and the Tokyo Concert.

Thirty-four albums from the Blue Note Genius sessions through the Riverside peak, the Columbia quartet years, and the final London Collection: the complete Monk.

The Pacific Jazz vocal albums, the West Coast cool summit with Art Pepper, and the Riverside sessions that brought him into the New York mainstream.

The teenage Blue Note prodigy who blew alongside Hank Mobley and Horace Silver before he was old enough to drink. Ten formative albums.

The Divine One's early recordings, from the Columbia sessions through the landmark duets with Clifford Brown and the orchestral triumph of Sassy.

Forty-nine albums from the EmArcy debut through the Riverside years, the Capitol soul jazz explosion, and the Fantasy renaissance. The complete Cannonball.

The complete early Roost, Blue Note, and Debut recordings, from the solo sessions through Jazz at Massey Hall with Parker, Gillespie, Mingus, and Roach.

From the West Coast cool of Surf Ride through Meets the Rhythm Section, Smack Up, and the comeback recordings: the complete arc of alto's tortured genius.

The early Roost and Norgran sessions, from the live Storyville date with Roy Haynes to the Jimmy Raney quartets and the landmark West Coast Jazz.

West Coast hard bop at its finest: eight albums from the tenor saxophonist who proved LA could swing as hard as New York.

From the early Debut recordings through Pithecanthropus Erectus, The Black Saint, and Mingus at Monterey: the formative decade of jazz's greatest bassist-composer.

Seven early Prestige recordings, from the MJQ session through Saxophone Colossus: the years when Rollins became the most formidable tenor in jazz.

Thirty-four Blue Note albums from the guitar's great unsung hero, from the hard bop sessions through the funk period and the posthumous vault releases.

Ten essential records from the most technically gifted trumpet player of the hard bop generation, from Open Sesame through Red Clay and First Light.

Five albums from the London-based jazz vocalist, from the debut through Hat-Trick! and the mature artistry of Bitter Orange.

Four early recordings from Cannonball's little brother, including the debut and the cornet showcase Work Song.

Eight albums from the drummer who powered the first great Miles Davis Quintet, from the Riverside debut through the London recordings.

The after-hours sessions at Minton's Playhouse, the musicians' strike, the first recordings on Savoy and Dial, and how jazz reinvented itself.

Sixty-seven years later, it remains the best-selling jazz album of all time. What makes it work, and why nothing else has quite matched it.

Few pianists understood the power of space like Bill Evans. A deep dive into the music and the man behind the most introspective touch in jazz.