If you're new to jazz, go to our Getting Into Jazz primer for some hints on how to listen. Beautiful yet largely forgotten ballads unearthed and given a stunning jazz make-over by tenor saxophonist ...

This loose-limbed rendezvous sounds exactly as it was, an impromptu late-night jam session planned on the fly in someone’s apartment—in this case, however, no ordinary apartment but “The Playhouse,” a ...