There's a stack of mighty fine jazz and blues music here, just about all of which has stood the passage of time well. But it has to be said that the other chief pleasure of Kornerstoned is historical, ...

Alexis Korner lived a much longer life in the blues. He was also the unlikely ground zero of British R&B — a Paris-born singer-guitarist of very non-Delta roots (Korner was part Greek, Turkish and ...

Still looking to the future is the work of Thelonious Monk handsomely collected over four discs on Monk's Moods (Proper). Chief among other notable compilations from old jazz-types this month is an ...

CD1: Midnight Special; Roundhouse Stomp; Rotten Break; Kid Man; County Jail; 3/4 A.D.; She Fooled Me; I Wanna Put A Tiger In Your Tank; Rain Is Such A Lonesome Sound; Blaydon Races; Up-Town; See See ...