Frank Butler

Born: February 18, 1928

At The Renaissance

By Ben Webster

Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Georgia On My Mind; Caravan; Renaissance Blues; Ole Miss Blues; What Is This Thing Called Love; Stardust;

For Real!

By Hampton Hawes

Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Hip; Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams; Crazeology; Numbers Game; For Real; I Love You.

The Fox

By Harold Land

Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: The Fox; Mirror Mind Rose; One Second, Please; Sims A-Plenty; Little Chris; One Down.

Smack Up

By Art Pepper

Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Smack Up; Las Cuevas De Mario; A Bit Of Basie; How Can You Lose; Maybe Next Year; Tears Inside.

You Get More Bounce With Curtis Counce!

By Curtis Counce

Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: How Deep Is The Ocean; Too Close For Comfort; Mean To Me; Stranger in Paradise; Counceltation; Big Foot

Top Ten Sci-Fi Jazz Albums

by Chris May
October 14, 2024

On The Launch Pad Robert Frosch, head honcho at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 1977 to 1981, wrote that at cocktail parties he was sometimes asked whether NASA had some gizmo or other that had recently been brought to fictional life in a sci-fi book or movie. If Frosch's answer was “No," the next ...

The Fox

by Richard J Salvucci
April 4, 2024

There was once a legendary trumpet player named Jack Purvis who was a disciple of Louis Armstrong. Purvis was an excellent player, but he was in and out of trouble for most of his life. So he spent some time in jail. In fact, so much time that Purvis once led (documented in the Fort-Worth Star ...

Curtis Counce: You Get More Bounce With Curtis Counce!

by Richard J Salvucci
November 18, 2023

When bassist Curtis Counce died of a heart attack at the age of 37 in 1963, the jazz world was deprived of a major talent. Not that one would have known much, for his death, while noted, was not extensively covered. Counce, a Midwesterner, had come to California and to Los Angeles to learn his craft, ...

John Coltrane: An Alternative Top Ten Albums

by Chris May
April 8, 2021

Miles Davis once said that you could recite the history of jazz in just four words: Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker. To that you need to add two more: John Coltrane. A giant during his lifetime, Coltrane continues to shape jazz and inspire musicians decades after he passed. No other player has come remotely close to eclipsing ...