Jazz by Instrument

Browse the catalogue by the instrument at the front of the music — start with a few favorites, or scan the full A–Z.

Popular Instruments

The centre of gravity in jazz - stride, bebop, the great trios, and the modal players who followed.

The horn most associated with the music, from Hawkins and Young through Coltrane and Rollins.

Timekeeping turned into conversation, from swing to the free playing of the sixties onward.

The walking line that holds a group together, and a solo voice in its own right.

Armstrong to Miles to the players still redrawing the instrument today.

Acoustic swing, hollow-body bebop, and the electric players who took jazz somewhere new.