"Birth Of The Cool" is a must-have compilation album featuring three landmark Davis sessions from 1949 to 1950. Showcasing compelling and unique instrumentation, Davis is joined by acclaimed musicians including Lee Konitz, Gerry Mulligan, Al Haig, Al McKibbon, Max Roach, Kenny Clarke, Kenny Hagood, Bill Barber, J.J. Johnson and more. The album is included on Guardian’s “50 Great Moments in Jazz”. This is a definitive release in the history of cool jazz.

"East Coast Jazz Series" is a Jazz series produced by Creed Taylor while working for Bethlehem Records, and launched in 1954 "to distinguish the new music emerging in New York from the new jazz in Los Angeles and San Francisco". The series includes individual releases by Bobby Scott, Vinnie Burke, Joe Puma, Herbie Mann, Milt Hinton, Urbie Green, Hal McKusick, Sam Most, Kai Winding & J.J. Johnson. There were nine albums in total.

"Conception" is a compilation album issued by Prestige Records in 1956 as PRLP 7013, featuring Miles Davis on a number of tracks. Miles Davis is but one of the featured performers on this compilation album consisting of various tracks released on 10-inch vinyl and 78s, recorded in New York City between 1949 and 1951. In addition to Davis, other key figures on the album include Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, Lee Konitz and Zoot Sims. The tracks had all been previously released by Prestige in discontinued formats, either on 10 inch LPs, or as 78rpm singles.

Though June Christy performed well in many different settings, she excelled when leading a small group or singing a sympathetic chart. Though in 1945 she was still a decade away from a dedicated solo career that saw her shine with Pete Rugolo's advanced arrangements, Christy began recording laid-back transcription dates with small groups of Stan Kenton sidemen. The Jazz Factory's collection of this material, "Complete Capitol Small Group Transcriptions", trumps earlier collections like "The Uncollected June Christy with the Kentones" (1946) by offering 25 small-group titles from late 1945 and 1946, all recorded with a talented group of Kenton's players including Bob Cooper, Kai Winding, Shelly Manne, and Ray Wetzel, plus guitarist Dave Barbour.

This album’s a listening pleasure for any music lover, but if you have a particular fondness for the trombone’s warm-toned vocal sound, this album’s a must – a once in a lifetime conclave of four of the instrument’s greats. There’s Dane Kai Winding, best known for his classic series of jazz albums with modern trombone icon J.J. Johnson. With his multiphonics and exploratory bent, Germany’s Albert Mangelsdorff was a major innovator on the instrument.

The third and final Chris Connor recording for Bethlehem, this 1955 release is considered one of her best and was recorded as her star was rising high, with a spectacular studio band consisting of Herbie Mann on flute, J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding on trombones, Ralph Sharon on piano, guitarist Joe Puma, bassist Milt Hinton and drummer Osie Johnson.