A prime example of the CTI label’s indulgence in the commercial possibilities of jazz, Breakout gave Johnny Hammond the opportunity to escape from the long shadow cast by Jimmy Smith. Sticking with ...

Johnny "Hammond" Smith will always be tagged as the other Smith on the B-3, grouped together with a host of other organists who never managed to break free from the club circuit into the realm of true ...

Wicked Grin Virgin/Pointblank $17.97 . Because Tom Waits' songs come wrapped so tightly in his own strange package of sounds and personality, it is not surprising that few people have successfully ...

Coming up through the Greenwich Village folk scene, John Hammond collected the work of some of the greatest blues artists of all time. On his latest album, that music is presented as bare-bones and ...