Russell Malone

Habana

Roy Hargrove · 1997

Earfood

Roy Hargrove · 2008

Roy HargroveRoy Hargroveロイ・ハーグローブ played horns on D'Angelo's Voodoo (2000), reaching listeners far outside jazz. That experience directly inspired the RH Factor, linking hard bop to hip-hop and funk in a single grammar. His conversations with Chucho Valdés in Havana were another axis. He died in 2018 at 49.

— Voodoo, D'Angelo, 2000

Kind of Blue

Miles Davis · 1959

Giant Steps

John Coltrane · 1960

Jazz in the Key of Blue

Jimmy Cobb · 2009

Kelly Blue

Wynton Kelly · 1959

Jimmy Cobb was the newcomer who had just replaced the previous drummer in Miles Davis's sextet. The Kind of Blue (1959) sessions were cut almost live off the sketches, with barely any rehearsal, and the result became the best-selling jazz album of all time.

Return to Forever

Return to Forever · 1972

Finding The Right Notes

Ron Carter · 2022

Silk

Fuse One · 1981

Echoes Of An Era

Chaka Khan / Freddie Hubbard / Joe Henderson / Chick Corea / Stanley Clarke / Lenny White · 1982

Stanley Clarke helped define electric-bass fusion on Return to Forever (1972), yet a decade later he turned up in a very different room: Echoes Of An Era (1982), a session built around a pop/R&B singer performing straight jazz standards.