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March 8 - 14 |
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ACROBAT
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / AMERICA'S GREATEST HITS VOL.8 - 1957 (310) |
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Welcome to the eighth edition of Acrobat's "America's Greatest Hits" series. Once again we present the biggest American hits of 1957, 21 No. 1's and 7 No. 2's. This CD features every single to have reached the top place in the Billboard Charts in 1957 from Elvis to (read more...)
[Item Code: 61926 CD: $10.00]
 Track 01: Too Much (a) |
AUDIOPHONIC
| SMILIN' JACK SMITH / THE SOUND OF A SMILE (80201) |
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In the 1940's, Jack Smith, amid musical carbon copies of crooner/leaders Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, had a voice that was immediately familiar; you could never mistake him for any other singer. Of the 30 songs heard in this collection, only three were commercially recorded by Jack (read more...)
[Item Code: 62323 2-CD: $15.00]
Track 01: They All Laughed |
CANDID
| BUDDY CHILDERS / ARTISTRY IN JAZZ (79735) |
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A coming together of two talents with a combined century of musical experience originally recorded in 1996. Trumpeter Buddy Childers played with everyone from Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, Count Basie to Frank Sinatra. Russ Garcia wrote over a 100 film scores and worked with Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson among (read more...)
[Item Code: 20959 CD: $16.00]
Track 01: Come Home Again |
| BILL PERKINS / I WISHED ON THE MOON (79824) |
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Bill Perkins is a special guest of the Metropole Orchestra on these studio sessions from 1989 and 1990. Backed by conductor Rob Pronk's lightly swinging arrangements, Perkins packs a punch with his effusive tenor sax in "I Wished on the Moon." He switches to flute for "Beautiful Love," which starts (read more...)
[Item Code: 62070 CD: $16.00]
Track 02: Remember |
CAPITOL
| JIMMY SMITH / LIVE AT THE BABY GRAND, VOLUME 1 (92785) |
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Jimmy Smith's initial success was in the many urban, inner city jazz clubs that dotted America in the 1950s. Blue Note decided to venture out of New York and capture their unique new jazz star in his element at Club Baby Grand, Wilmington, Delaware on August 4, 1956. The trio (read more...)
[Item Code: 62183 CD: $13.00]
Track 02: Sweet Georgia Brown |
| JIMMY SMITH / LIVE AT THE BABY GRAND, VOLUME 2 (92787) |
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Jimmy Smith's initial success was in the many urban, inner city jazz clubs that dotted America in the 1950s. Blue Note decided to venture out of New York and capture their unique new jazz star in his element at Club Baby Grand, Wilmington, Delaware on August 4, 1956. The trio (read more...)
[Item Code: 62184 CD: $13.00]
Track 01: Caravan |
| JUTTA HIPP / JUTTA HIPP WITH ZOOT SIMS (93178) |
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Like Blue Note's founders, Jutta Hipp was a German native transplanted in New York. Most of her Blue Note efforts were trio affairs, but this album stands out not only for her masterful bop-inspired piano but also for the presence of the great Zoot Sims in the front line. Two (read more...)
[Item Code: 62185 CD: $13.00]
Track 01: Just Blues |
CAPRI
| PETER SOMMER / CROSSROADS (74090) |
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Peter Sommer's second album as a leader, Crossroads features a two-tenor front-line with New York saxophonist Rich Perry, who is probably best known for his work in Maria Schnieder's band. Sommer has contributed his muscular tenor playing and creative spirit to a variety of musical projects by Chie Imaizumi and (read more...)
[Item Code: 62268 CD: $15.00]
Track 01: Escapade |
COLLECTABLES
| FRANKIE CARLE / VERY BEST OF THE COLUMBIA YEARS (7416) |
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The most senior of the big band leaders, Frankie Carle was also a composer of note - having had his works performed by Glenn Miller, Chet Atkins, Count Basic, Tommy Dorsey and Floyd Cramer. This compilation contains his best work on Columbia, including "Saturday Night (Is the Lonliest Night of the (read more...)
[Item Code: 35993 CD: $15.00]
Track 01: Evelina |
DIAMOND STACK PROD.
| YERBA BUENA STOMPERS / THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE YERBA BUENA STOMPERS (102207) |
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14 selections. 68 minutes. The Yerba Buena Stompers in the past explored traditional jazz. Until now, the one element of traditional jazz that they did not touch upon was Gospel Music. Gospel music continues to be an inspiration to many, and one fo the significant cornerstones of American popular music
[Item Code: 62356 CD: $16.00]
Track 01: Over In The Glory Land |
DOUBLE MOON RECORDS
| CHARLIE MARIANO / THE MUSIC OF CHARLIE MARIANO (71064) |
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One of the few CDs to feature compositions (almost) entirely by Charlie Mariano, one of the last living musicians from the bebop era! Charlie's music makes everybody happy. The far-reaching depth of feeling of his sound and intensive, spiritual interaction makes this CD a very special experience (read more...)
[Item Code: 62246 CD: $17.00]
Track 01: Crystal Bells |
DRG
| SAY DARLING / SAY DARLING - ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST (19109) |
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On the stage, two pianos served as the show's only musical accompaniment. For the show's original cast recording (RCA's first new show to be issued in stereo), this was augmented by a full orchestra. The orchestrations and musical direction for the album were by Sid Ramin. This DRG compact disc (read more...)
[Item Code: 62152 CD: $17.00]
Track 02: Try To Love Me (a) |
EAGLE ROCK
| QUINCY JONES / JAZZ IN MONTREUX SERIES (39087) |
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The thing about Quincy Jones' masterful approach to any musical genre he decides to dip into is that it is so professionally executed one can sit back in awe as well as be totally entertained and enthralled with the product. 50 Years in Music: Live at Montreux 1996 features a (read more...)
[Item Code: 62148 DVD: $15.00] |
GHB
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / HOT NEW ORLEANS JAZZ (50003) |
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This is the third sampler on the GHB label. 16 tracks featuring Jamie Wight's New Orleans Joymakers, Chris Barber/Barry Martyn, Original Camellia Jazz Band, Kid Thomas, Jimmy Archey's Reunion, Art Hodes and the Magnolia Jazz band and many more fabulous artists (read more...)
[Item Code: 62099 CD: $5.00]
Track 01: The Second Line (a) |
JAZZED MEDIA
| DAVE CORBUS / SOUND DOWN (1030) |
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Dave Corbus's second CD release presents jazz guitar at its finest - dynamic and heartfelt original guitar trio jazz played with feeling and conviction. Exciting original compositions provide the listener with a new dimension in contemporary straight-ahead jazz (read more...)
[Item Code: 62244 CD: $16.00]
Track 01: Gold Leaf Street |
| JUDY WEXLER / DREAMS & SHADOWS (1031) |
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The follow-up to Judy Wexler's critically acclaimed debut Easy on the Heart confirms her status as one of the finest rising bop-influenced jazz vocalists on today's music scene. Dreams & Shadows features an eclectic repertoire, including "Spooky" and "Almost Blue," with inventive arrangements by piano greats Alan Pasqua and Jeff Colella
[Item Code: 62245 CD: $16.00]
Track 01: Comes Love |
MERRYMAKERS
| LU WATTERS / LU WATTERS' YERBA BUENA JAZZ BAND VOL. 1 (30) |
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Recorded in 1949 at Hambone Kelly's in El Cerrito, CA true to the spirit and style of the original jazz. Trumpeter Lu Watters was a key figure in the post-war traditional jazz revival, and the inspiration to many others in Britain & elsewhere to purvey the wares of New Orleans jazz (read more...)
[Item Code: 62270 CD: $16.00]
Track 01: Doin' The Hambone |
| LU WATTERS / LU WATTERS YERBA BUENA JAZZ BAND VOL. 2 (31) |
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Recorded in 1949 at Hambone Kelly's in El Cerrito, CA true to the spirit and style of the original jazz. Trumpeter Lu Watters was a key figure in the post-war traditional jazz revival, and the inspiration to many others in Britain & elsewhere to purvey the wares of New Orleans jazz (read more...)
[Item Code: 62271 CD: $16.00]
Track 01: Ostrich Walk |
| LEN BARNARD / DIXIELAND JAZZ / TWO GREAT DIXIELAND JAZZ BANDS (32) |
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Len Barnard's Jazz Band was recorded in Melbourne, Australia in 1952 featuring his younger brother Bob on cornet. Songs include: Moose March, Texas Moaner and Mr. Jelly Lord plus 4 more. Also included on this release is The Gin Bottle Seven originally recorded in Dayton, Ohio in 1954. Song include (read more...)
[Item Code: 62272 CD: $16.00]
Track 01: Moose March |
NAGEL HEYER
| SPIKE ROBINSON / (103) |
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Spike Robinson's playing was characterised by a mellow tone, unaggressive approach and a deep affinity with the classic American song. Broadly speaking, he was one of that school of tenor saxophonists who followed in the wake of Lester Young, players such as Stan Getz and Zoot Sims, but he had (read more...)
[Item Code: 61994 CD: $19.00]
Track 02: Somerset |
| RUBY BRAFF / (104) |
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Ruby Braff began his jazz career as an out-of-time traditionalist playing with veteran jazzmen of an earlier age, and rose to establish his own standing as one of the handful of leading artists playing in traditional and mainstream idioms. He did so on the back of one of the most (read more...)
[Item Code: 61995 CD: $19.00]
Track 01: Just You, Just Me |
NONESUCH
| JOSHUA REDMAN / BACK EAST (104252) |
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Following tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins's landmark albums Way Out West and Freedom Suite, the sax-bass-drums trio context became de rigueur in jazz. With his brisk, hearty tone and very forward-looking approach, tenor ace Joshua Redman pays tribute to Sonny and comparable tenor triumphs (by Wayne Shorter, Stan Getz, etc.) with (read more...)
[Item Code: 62237 CD: $18.00]
Track 03: Zarafah |
PUTAMAYO
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / PUTAMAYO PRESENTS LATIN JAZZ (265) |
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The set provides a satisfactory, superb quality introduction. While many major artists are missing it does get to a good number of the pioneering trendsetters: Machito (who opens the set with "Congo Mulence," in tandem with Cannonball Adderley), Ray Barretto (with a smooth, breezy "Sumemrtime"), Eddie Palmieri, Poncho Sanchez, and (read more...)
[Item Code: 62147 CD: $15.00]
Track 01: Congo Mulence (a) |
RESERVOIR
| PETE MALINVERNI / INVISIBLE CITIES (192) |
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For Pete Malinverni's "Invisible Cities," he used melodies that already existed, and composed his own for other places that inspired him in his travels. Malinverni's arrangements of "I Love Paris," "Chicago," Bernstein's "Lonely Town", There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York," and his own six original compositions provide (read more...)
[Item Code: 62074 CD: $16.00]
Track 01: I Love Paris |
RIVERMONT
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / THE BIG BROADCAST - JAZZ & POPULAR MUSIC OF THE 1920S & 1930S VOL. 3 (1145) |
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Welcome to the third Big Broadcast collection. For over thirty years, radio host Rich Conaty has brought the jazz and popular music of the 1920s and 1930s to listeners in New York City through his program The Big Broadcast, heard Sunday evenings on WFUV-FM. One of the great strengths of (read more...)
[Item Code: 62312 CD: $17.00]
Track 01: Pianoflage (a) |
SOUNDS OF YESTERYEAR
| THE BOB CATS / THE COMPLETE BOB CATS JAZZ ME BLUES VOLUME TWO OF THREE (751) |
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The Bob Cats were the Jazz band with in the Bob Crosby Orchestra. they were also the most talented. The Bob Cats Recorded sixty one tracks during the period of 1938-1942 if you include The Big Noise From Winnetka which was performed by string bassist Bob Haggart and drummer (read more...)
[Item Code: 62075 CD: $13.00]
Track 01: Mournin' Blues |
| BING CROSBY / BING AND FRIENDS (752) |
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2-CD set) Memorable recordings sprung from Bing's associations with the Andrews Sisters and Louis Armstrong, both of which are represented here; but his legendary partnership with Bob Hope produced a mere handful of sides and despite his numerous radio appearances with Al Jolson, Judy Garland and others, the portfolio (read more...)
[Item Code: 62076 2-CD: $13.00]
Track 01: Dearie (1a) |
SWEETSPOT RECORDS
| AL BASILE / THE TINGE (7552) |
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Al Basile's sixth solo CD The Tinge shows off all his skills, adding a generous helping of his rich cornet sound to the mix of exceptional songwriting and soulful singing which marked his last two releases, Blue Ink and Groovin' In The Mood Room. It also reunites him with bandmates (read more...)
[Item Code: 61382 CD: $15.00]
Track 02: Just Wait And See |
TELARC
| HIROMI UEHARA / ANOTHER MIND (83558) |
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On the back of the CD case is a photo that is basically a heads-up as to what you can expect from this debut album by 23-year-old jazz pianist Hiromi Uehara. She is standing outside wearing a black dress and a strange yellow-and-white wrap. Her face is turned up (read more...)
[Item Code: 62299 CD: $19.00]
Track 01: XYZ |
UNIVERSAL
| ROBERTA GAMBARINI / YOU ARE THERE (60121) |
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In keeping with the impromptu nature of the recording, Gambarini's performance throughout is casual and moderated, but also precise and nuanced, in a way that only an expert singer and a perceptive pianist can accomplish. The two obviously enjoy each other's playing‹Gambarini laughs softly and delightedly at times and (read more...)
[Item Code: 62350 CD: $17.00]
Track 01: You Are There |
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