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Carrothers, Bill - Family Life - CD |
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Artist: Bill Carrothers
Title: Family Life
Music: Jazz
Format: CD
Label: Pirouet
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Description: Released On: 14 May 2012 - Details: Following his remarkable trio double album, ‘A Night at the Village Vanguard’, American pianist Bill Carrothers returns to a favourite format : solo piano - as he has done so effectively on previous albums, including : ‘Civil War Diaries’, ‘The Blues and The Greys’ and ‘Excelsior’. On ‘Family Life’, Carrothers once again shows himself to be a master of subtlety. His compositions take unorthodox twists and turns. These are gripping pieces for piano that act ... view item page for full details >>>
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Coltrane, John - The 1961 Newport Set + 4 bonus tracks - CD |
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Artist: John Coltrane
Title: The 1961 Newport Set + 4 bonus tracks
Music: Jazz
Format: CD
Label: Solar
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Description: Released On: 02 May 2012 - Info: Total Time: 74:47 mins. - 8 tracks - Includes 8-page booklet - Details: John Coltrane’s never before released 1961 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival. At the time, his group consisted of a quintet with Trane as the only horn, plus piano, two basses, and drums. As a bonus, we have added another complete performance from the same year, recorded in Helsinki, Finland, during the tour on which Eric Dolphy joined the group. This is the first time this set is p... view item page for full details >>>
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Peterson, Oscar Trio - Live in Amsterday 1960 - CD |
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Artist: Oscar Peterson Trio
Title: Live in Amsterday 1960
Music: Jazz
Format: CD
Label: Solar
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Description: Released On: 02 May 2012 - Info: Total Time: 51:33 mins. - 9 tracks. - Details: This release presents Oscar Peterson’s complete 1960 Amsterdam concert with Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen for the first time ever on any format. This particular formation of the trio would last until mid-1965, when drummer Ed Thigpen –who had been with the band for many years– quit the group. Their final recorded concert took place on May 29, 1965 at Tivoli Gardens, in Copenhagen, Denmark.... view item page for full details >>>
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Parker, Charlie - Plays Cole Porter + 7 bonus tracks - CD |
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Artist: Charlie Parker
Title: Plays Cole Porter + 7 bonus tracks
Music: Jazz
Format: CD
Label: Essential Jazz Classics
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Description: Released On: 02 May 2012 - Info: Total Time: 76:50 mins. - 16 tracks - Includes 12-page booklet. And star-studded personnel. - Details: The 1954 album ‘Charlie Parker Plays Cole Porter’ (originally on Verve) in its entirety. Intended as a homage to composer Cole Porter, who penned all the tunes featured, the album marks one of Norman Granz’s first attempts to present a songbook, preceding the celebrated LPs he would make with Ella Fitzgerald. . Bird never saw the final product, as he died on ... view item page for full details >>>
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Parker, Charlie - Complete Bird at The Bandbox + 9 bonus tracks - CD |
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Artist: Charlie Parker
Title: Complete Bird at The Bandbox + 9 bonus tracks
Music: Jazz
Format: CD
Label: Rare Live Recordings
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Description: Released On: 02 May 2012 - Info: Total Time: 78:45 mins. - 15 tracks - Includes 12-page booklet. - Details: All existing broadcasts of Charlie Parker at the Bandbox club in New York, in 1953, on one album for the first time. He is featured here in unusual contexts, with the Bill Harris/Chubby Jackson Herd and with organist Milt Buckner, as well as a whole show in a quartet format. . Added as a bonus : all existing music from a jam session recorded in 1951 at Christy's Restaurant, in Framingha... view item page for full details >>>
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Ammons, Gene / Sonny Stitt - Boss Tenors + Dig Him! - CD |
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Artist: Gene Ammons / Sonny Stitt
Title: Boss Tenors + Dig Him!
Music: Jazz
Format: CD
Label: Fresh Sound
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Description: Released On: 20 April 2012 - Info: 24-Bit Digitally Remastered - Details: Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt were co-leaders of their own group in the early ‘50s, but though it took them almost ten years to get back together again, they were as incendiary a pair as ever. Stitt’s legendary quickness of thought and execution were, as always, outstanding, but Ammons’ passion and adroit, canny way of developing his solos made him an ideal partner for these two-tenor jousts – Stitt, by the way, also pick... view item page for full details >>>
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Gryce, Gigi Quintet - Saying Somethin' + Hap'nins + Rat Race + Reminiscin' - 2CD |
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Artist: Gigi Gryce Quintet
Title: Saying Somethin' + Hap'nins + Rat Race + Reminiscin'
Music: Jazz
Format: CD
Label: Fresh Sound
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Description: Released On: 20 April 2012 - Info: 24-bit digitally remastered. - Details: Still greatly under-rated, Gigi Gryce (1925-1983) was a fine, astringent altoist inspired by, among others, Charlie Parker, and also an inventive composer and arranger. . It’s all abundantly evident on the four well crafted, highly accessible albums (1960-61) collected here, the last he made as leader. His feeling for the blues invigorates the albums “Saying Somethin!” and “The Rat Race Blues”; as does his approach to ... view item page for full details >>>
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Timmons, Bobby Trio - This Here is Bobby Timmons + Easy Does It + bonus track - CD |
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Artist: Bobby Timmons Trio
Title: This Here is Bobby Timmons + Easy Does It + bonus track
Music: Jazz
Format: CD
Label: Fresh Sound
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Description: Released On: 20 April 2012 - Info: 24-bit digitally remastered - Details: Bobby Timmons was one of the leading exponents of the funky school of jazz piano, who also contributed heavily to the so-called ‘soul’ movement with his three hit compositions: ‘Moanin’, ‘This Here’, and ‘Dat Dere’, which are all on the first of the 2 albums on this CD : “This Here Is Bobby Timmons’ (1960) . But he was much more than that. As his second album, here, ‘Easy Does It’ (1961) shows : , he was an imaginative,... view item page for full details >>>
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Rouse, Charlie - Yeah! + We Paid Our Dues! - 2CD |
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Artist: Charlie Rouse
Title: Yeah! + We Paid Our Dues!
Music: Jazz
Format: CD
Label: Fresh Sound
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Description: Released On: 20 April 2012 - Info: 24-bit digitally remastered - Details: Four Charlie Rouse albums on this 2CD set : his debut as leader, ‘Takin’ Care of Business’ and the live album, ‘Getting’ Into Somethin’’ (both 1960) and ‘Yeah!’ and ‘We Paid Our Dues!’ (both 1961). . Despite a decade with Thelonious Monk’s high-profile quartet, Seattle-born Charlie Rouse (1924-1988) remained somewhat taken for granted, but his gifts were appreciated by leaders as disparate as Gillespie, Ellington, Damer... view item page for full details >>>
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Brown, Clifford / Max Roach Quintet - Complete Studio Recordings - CD |
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Artist: Clifford Brown / Max Roach Quintet
Title: Complete Studio Recordings
Music: Jazz
Format: CD Box Set
Label: Essential Jazz Classics
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Description: Released On: 12 April 2012 - Info: De Luxe 4-CD Set - Total Time: 307:33 mins. - 60 tracks - plus special 24-page booklet with notes, rare photos, original liner notes and complete Clifford Brown Blindfold Test, conducted by Leonard Feather in Down Beat shortly before the trumpeter’s tragic death. - Details: All existing studio recordings by the legendary Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet. Harold Land was the tenor saxophonist on half of the sessions, while Sonny Rollins replaced him on the ot... view item page for full details >>>
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Armstrong, Louis - Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings Complete Edition - CD |
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Artist: Louis Armstrong
Title: Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings Complete Edition
Music: Jazz
Format: CD Box Set
Label: Essential Jazz Classics
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Description: Released On: 12 April 2012 - Info: 4CD Set - Total Time: 310:20 mins. - 102 tracks - Includes 24-page booklet. - Details: This deluxe 4 CD Set presents all of the legendary 1925-29 recordings by the extraordinary Louis Armstrong Hot Five and Hot Seven small groups. Featuring such stellar names as Earl Hines, Johnny Dodds, Kid Ory, Barney Bigard, Lonnie Johnson, Jack Teagarden, and Jimmy Noone, these were among the first jazz recordings to be universally considered as classics. The set also co... view item page for full details >>>
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Maestro, Shai Trio - Shai Maestro Trio - CD |
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Artist: Shai Maestro Trio
Title: Shai Maestro Trio
Music: Jazz
Format: CD
Label: Laborie
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Description: Released On: 12 April 2012 - Details: Israeli-born, New York-based pianist Shai Maestro has formed his own trio after five sensational years as a member of the Avishai Cohen Trio, with whom he toured the world. His fine new trio features : Israeli drummer Ziv Ravitz (Lee Konitz, Esperanza Spalding, etc) and Peruvian Jorge Roeder on double bass (Roy Haynes, Gary Burton, etc). Maestro is still only in his mid-twenties, but has worked with many of the top New York jazz names. On this entrancing ... view item page for full details >>>
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Rosenberg, Marlene - Marlene Rosenberg: Bassprint - CD |
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Artist: Marlene Rosenberg
Title: Marlene Rosenberg: Bassprint
Music: Jazz
Format: CD
Label: Origin
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Description: Released On: 19 March 2012 - Details: One of the more talented and multi-faceted bassists on the scene, Marlene Rosenberg lives in Chicago and has performed throughout the world with countless jazz luminaries, including Kenny Barron, Frank Foster, Stan Getz, Joe Henderson, Roy Hargrove, Marian McPartland, Cedar Walton, David “Fathead” Newman, Monty Alexander, Teddy Edwards, Joe Williams, and Nancy Wilson. On Bassprint, she features her Chicago quartet on a set of 9 modern originals and two co... view item page for full details >>>
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Anderson, Clipper / Greta Matassa - Clipper Anderson: The Road Home - CD |
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Artist: Clipper Anderson / Greta Matassa
Title: Clipper Anderson: The Road Home
Music: Jazz
Format: CD
Label: Origin
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Description: Released On: 19 March 2012 - Details: The Seattle bassist has been an unassuming yet vital figure on the Northwest jazz scene for almost three decades. He has lent his talents to countless recordings and live performances, including work with Michael Brecker, Benny Golson, Paquito D’Rivera, Phil Woods, Peter Erskine, Bob Mintzer, Lew Soloff, Bucky Pizzarelli, and Buddy DeFranco. With “The Road Home,” Anderson makes his debut as a solo artist and composer. Supported by longtime collaborators, ... view item page for full details >>>
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Moulder, John / Geof Bradfield - John Moulder Quintet: The Eleventh Hour - CD |
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Artist: John Moulder / Geof Bradfield
Title: John Moulder Quintet: The Eleventh Hour
Music: Jazz
Format: CD
Label: Origin
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Description: Released On: 19 March 2012 - Details: Known for his ability to create masterful studio recordings of his sweeping, cinemagraphic musical visions, the guitarist here transports a live audience at Chicago’s venerable Green Mill Jazz Club. Of the performance, the Chicago Tribune’s Howard Reich wrote, “.the musicmaking often achieved a quiet serenity, bringing a capacity audience to a whisper. There’s simply no way to converse when music of such profundity and grace is unfolding.” Along with saxo... view item page for full details >>>
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Verbist, Piet / Herman Pardon - Piet Verbist : Zygomatik - CD |
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Artist: Piet Verbist / Herman Pardon
Title: Piet Verbist : Zygomatik
Music: Jazz
Format: CD
Label: Origin
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Description: Released On: 19 March 2012 - Details: With an energized mix of jazz, soul, rock and funk, Antwerp, Belgian bassist Piet Verbist’s Zygomatik takes the classic, mostly acoustic jazz quartet instrumentation to new places on the band’s debut recording. The core trio of Verbist, drummer Herman Pardon, and Bram Weijters on Fender Rhodes, is joined by three saxophonists - Matt Renzi and Fred Delplancq on tenor, Vinicent Brijs on baritone- as they slip and slide through a set of eight joyous original... view item page for full details >>>
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Kirk, Roland - We Free Kings + Triple Threat + 2 bonus tracks - CD |
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Artist: Roland Kirk
Title: We Free Kings + Triple Threat + 2 bonus tracks
Music: Jazz
Format: CD
Label: Essential Jazz Classics
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Description: Released On: 16 March 2012 - Info: New York, November 9, 1956. Total Time: 76:44 mins. - 18 tracks - includes 12-page booklet. - Details: Saxophone magician Roland Kirk’s complete original 1961 album ‘We Free Kings’ (originally on Mercury), which was Kirk’s first LP for that label and his fourth as a leader. It showcases him in a quartet format with two outstanding rhythm sections. “Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year”, which completes the session, has been added here to the original album... view item page for full details >>>
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Evans, Bill Trio - The Village Vanguard Sessions - 2CD |
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Artist: Bill Evans Trio
Title: The Village Vanguard Sessions
Music: Jazz
Format: CD
Label: Essential Jazz Classics
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Description: Released On: 16 March 2012 - Info: 2CD Set - Total Time: 145:01 mins. - 22 tracks - Includes 24-page booklet. - Details: All surviving complete performances from the legendary 1961 Village Vanguard sets by the Bill Evans Trio presented in chronological order. It would be the last recording by this formation of the group, with Scott LaFaro on bass, and Paul Motian on drums, as LaFaro died ten days later in a car crash, on July 6, 1961, at the age of 25. “Of the many recordings Evans issued, th... view item page for full details >>>
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