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May 12 - 18 |
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ABSTRACT LOGIX
| JOHN MCLAUGHLIN / FLOATING POINT (11) |
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Gutiar Legend John McLaughlin returns with a blistering new record of original compositions featuring some young lions of Indian Music along with the sensational Hadrien Feraud on bass. This latest offering from John McLaughlin is a feast for fusion-lovers everywhere. It delivers not only in terms of the superb musicianship (read more...)
[Item Code: 62339
CD: $17.00]
 Track 02: Raju |
CANDID
| DON BENNETT / CHICAGO CALLING (79713) |
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Like a massive blender, all forms of musical expression have been mixed into the smooth consistently of originality. Pianist Don Bennett's playing is full of vitality, swing and cogent improvisations. He knows the blues inside out, has a buoyant touch and brings back visions of such departed greats as Wynton (read more...)
[Item Code: 62495
CD: $16.00]
Track 01: About Time |
| MISHKA ADAMS / GOD BLESS THE CHILD (79799) |
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On this album Mishka displays a maturity and confidence rarely seen from one so young in the jazz music scene. She could have gone the pop route, instead she has decided to play jazz, albeit more contemporary and infused with other genres like rock and world music and even a (read more...)
[Item Code: 62496
CD: $16.00]
Track 01: On Green Dolphin Street |
CAPITOL
| ART FARMER / BRASS SHOUT / AZTEC SUITE (17465) |
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This 67-minute CD reissues for the first time two undeservedly overlooked 1959 United Artists LPs by Art Farmer. Brass Shout, the first seven tracks, features a tentet with eight all-star brass players fueled by vivid Benny Golson arrangements. Percy Heath's bass, and the drums of Philly Joe Jones or (read more...)
[Item Code: 62493
CD: $14.00]
Track 01: Nica's Dream |
| DIZZY GILLESPIE / (17466) |
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Gil Fuller's jazz credentials date back to the late-forties when he was the principal architect of the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band with James Moody. In 1965, arranger Gill Filler pulled together the creaam of LA's jazz and studio scenes to form the Monterey Jazz Orchestra, which performed at that year's (read more...)
[Item Code: 62492
CD: $14.00]
Track 02: Angel City |
| LOUIS SMITH / SMITHVILLE (58289) |
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The recent release of Horace Silver - Live At Newport '58 has brought new attention to the brilliant work of trumpeter Louis Smith, an amazing soloist and technician who left jazz for music education in late-1958, but not before making two albums for Blue Note and joining Silver's quintet. This (read more...)
[Item Code: 62491
CD: $14.00]
Track 01: Smithville |
CLASSIC JAZZ RECORDS
| BOB WILBER / SPREADING JOY (70005) |
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Clarinetist Bob Wilber is internationally known for his contemporary takes on classic jazz standards. He has played with some of the biggest names in jazz music including Benny Goodman, Bobby Hackett and Jack Teagarden. On this rare Classic Jazz release the New York City native is at his finest, playing (read more...)
[Item Code: 62636
CD: $16.00]
Track 01: Polka Dot Stomp |
| BOB WILBER / NEW CLARINET IN TOWN (70008) |
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Internationally-known jazz clarinetist plays classic cuts by artists like Dave Brubeck, Django Reinhardt and Leonard Bernstein. Bob Wilber - clarinetist, saxophonist, and bandleader - has done it again. He is featured here with a quintet consisting of Charlie Byrd (guitar), Dave McKenna (piano), George Duvivier (bass) and Bobby Donaldson (drums), as well (read more...)
[Item Code: 62637
CD: $16.00]
Track 01: Swing 39 |
| RUBY BRAFF / FIREWORKS - THE NEW SCHOOL CONCERT (71153) |
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Trumpet/cornet player Ruby Braff and pianist Dick Hyman are two of the biggest names in classic jazz. Continuing in the tradition of such giants as Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Fats Waller and Duke Ellington, the two have each been playing for over 50 years. Braff began playing at Boston-area (read more...)
[Item Code: 62640
CD: $16.00]
Track 01: Somebody Loves Me |
| JIM CULLUM / THREE KINGS OF JAZZ - THE MUSIC OF LOUIS ARMSTRONG, BIX BEIDERBECKE AND JELLY ROLL MORTON (72567) |
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3-CD set. Never before released, by the Jim Cullum Happy Jazz Band, the foremost traditional band in the land! Featured here is the music of three jazz giants, cornet player Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke, the incomparable Louis Armstrong and one of the founding fathers of the jazz genre Jelly Roll (read more...)
[Item Code: 62638
3-CD: $27.00]
Track 02: Susie |
CONCORD
| SCOTT HAMILTON / ACROSS THE TRACKS (30388) |
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Tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton returns with a cookin' and soulful new album of jazz originals and ballads that was engineered, mixed and mastered by the legendary Rudy Van Gelder. Across The Tracks is a first on two fronts: It's Hamilton's first recording tracked at legendary engineer Rudy Van Gelder's New (read more...)
[Item Code: 62575
CD: $18.00]
Track 01: Deuces Wild |
CRISS CROSS
| WYCLIFFE GORDON / BONES TONES (1302) |
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For his seventh Criss Cross recording, Wycliffe Gordon pairs off with
Andre Hayward, his longtime partner in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra trombone section, for a carefree, straightforward, swinging romp through various nooks and crannies of the jazz and Broadway songbooks, as well as several varieties of the blues (read more...)
[Item Code: 62340
CD: $18.00]
Track 01: Spop |
| MIKE MORENO / THIRD WISH (1303) |
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An increasingly visible force on the New York scene in recent years, guitarist Mike Moreno makes his Criss Cross debut on a program mixing choice selections from the jazz songbook (Shorter, Henderson, Strayhorn) and his own evocative originals. Propelled by Moreno's fellow Houstonian, drummer Kendrick Scott, and young veterans pianist (read more...)
[Item Code: 62341
CD: $18.00]
Track 01: I Have A Dream |
| TIM WARFIELD / ONE FOR SHIRLEY (1304) |
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A veteran of the groups of Nicholas Payton and Adonis Rose, saxophonist
Tim Warfield breaks significantly from the format of the four previous Criss Cross sides. One For Shirley pays homage to the legendary organist Shirley Scott, with whom Warfield played on numerous occasions back in the early 90's (read more...)
[Item Code: 62342
CD: $18.00]
Track 02: Oasis |
| RALPH BOWEN / FIVE (1305) |
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For Ralph Bowen's fourth date he returns to the organ combo format that made 2002's Soul Proprietor a significant departure and to the tenor saxophonist's catalog. Returning from that session are trumpeter John Swana, organist Sam Yahel, guitarist Peter Bernstein and drummer Dana Hall. Bowen's muse is an advanced (read more...)
[Item Code: 62343
CD: $18.00]
Track 01: Step Lightly |
DIAMONDSTACK PROD.
| MAL SHARPE / FIRECRACKER BABY (51008) |
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A live concert CD from Yoshi's in Oakland, CA. On July 4th, 2007. For the love of Louis...Armstrong, that is,...Mal assembled a group of his musicians and special guests to pay tribute to the Greatest Jazz Trumpet Player the World has ever known. The ages of the band (read more...)
[Item Code: 62661
CD: $16.00]
Track 03: Swing That Music |
GREENLEAF
| DAVE DOUGLAS / MOONSHINE (1006) |
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Moonshine, the newest album from trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas' Grammy-nominated band Keystone, is an album that moves musical genres forward into uncharted territory. The evolutionary/revolutionary aspect is found in the vibrant alchemy between Douglas' avant-garde leaning compositions, the relentless, polyrhythmic funk of drummer Gene Lake and bassist Brad Jones (read more...)
[Item Code: 62516
CD: $18.00]
Track 02: Moonshine |
INNER CITY RECORDS
| TEDDI KING / SINGS GERSHWIN (1044) |
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Jazz vocalist Teddi King sings Gershwin classics accompanied by piano legend Dave McKenna. This rare Inner City recording, originally released in 1981, features jazz vocalist Teddi King with piano great Dave McKenna. King enjoyed a succesful career, having played with the likes of McKenna and George Shearing, and has amassed (read more...)
[Item Code: 62635
CD: $16.00]
Track 01: Isn't It A Pity? |
JAZZ BEAT
| BUDDY RICH / JUST SINGS / THE VOICE IS RICH (522) |
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While it is an undisputed fact that Buddy Rich (1917- 1987) earned his fame behind a drum set, his early career also included work as a singer and entertainer. The two LPs contained here are certainly not Buddy Rich's first vocal recordings, but they are his first full vocal albums (read more...)
[Item Code: 62479
CD: $17.00]
Track 01: Cathy |
| JIMMY HEATH / THE GAP SEALER / LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING (523) |
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This release contains Jimmy Heath's complete album The Gap Sealer plus five of the Six tracks from his successive LP Love And Understanding, Included here as bonus tracks (*). For the first time ever on CD. Includes 16-page comprehensive
Booklet (read more...)
[Item Code: 62478
CD: $17.00]
Track 01: Heritage Hum |
| PAT BOWIE / OUT OF SIGHT! / FEELIN' GOOD! (529) |
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This release presents the only two albums in singer Pat Bowie's discography, included here in their entirety and for the first time ever on CD. In addition to Bowie's fine vocals, both LPs feature brilliant instrumental backing by well known jazz stars like alto saxophonist Charles McPherson, tenor saxophonist and (read more...)
[Item Code: 62481
CD: $17.00]
Track 01: Get Out Of Town |
JSP
| LOUIS ARMSTRONG / THE BIG BAND SIDES (4202) |
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2-CD set. With his Hot Five and Hot Sven sides, Louis Armstrong made what are widely considered to be the finest ever examples of recorded jazz. These sides, made in their afterglow, have the same vigour and virtuosity, with the added power of a big band. Remastered by John (read more...)
[Item Code: 62578
2-CD: $20.00]
Track 01: My Sweet (a) |
| LEROY CARR / VOLUME ONE (7104) |
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4-CD set. Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell spearheaded a highly successful urban blues form in the late 1920s. Part of the Southern African American diaspora that settled in Northern cities, they were centered for some years in Indianpolis. Potent, pacy and petrinent, Carr's topics - railroads, love, travel, booze - have (read more...)
[Item Code: 62518
4-CD: $30.00]
Track 01: My Own Lonesome Blues |
MONTPELLIER
| DICK STABILE / MANY FACES (46) |
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Dick Stabile was one of the most accomplished saxophonists and bandleaders from his time with Ben Bernie in 1936 and later with his own band and his work with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. "Many Faces" features the 1955/57 releases from the Dick Stabile Orchestra. It features twenty four (read more...)
[Item Code: 62371
CD: $17.00]
Track 02: Cloudburst |
RESERVOIR
| ROB SCHNEIDERMAN / GLASS ENCLOSURE (193) |
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The impressionistic Bud Powell composition "Glass Enclosure" is the point of departure for pianist Rob Schneiderman's exciting new release. Schneiderman is joined by the legendary alto saxophonist Charles McPherson, bassist Todd Coolman and drummer Leroy Williams. McPherson is featured on six of the selections which include two Schneiderman originals, "Reunion (read more...)
[Item Code: 62395
CD: $16.00]
Track 02: Ready Or Not |
RUF RECORDS
| JEFF HEALEY / MESS OF BLUES (1126) |
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Jeff Healey was arguably one of the most distinctive guitar players of our time and a posthumous release of his first blues/rock album in eight years - a bustling, bright collection of tunes titled "Mess of Blues." The album was recorded late last year, with the musicians who regularly accompany (read more...)
[Item Code: 62353
CD: $17.00]
Track 01: I'm Torn Down |
SOUNDS OF YESTERYEAR
| HARRY JAMES / FROM HOLLYWOOD (757) |
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Another issue of the extraordinary trumpeter Harry James performing live from the Hollywood Palladium in the mid forties at the peak of the Big Band/swing Era. An unusual selection of tracks some of which Harry never recorded in the studio. The band features a great lineup of musicians including (read more...)
[Item Code: 62373
CD: $13.00]
Track 03: Who's Sorry Now |
| TEX BENEKE / TEX SWINGS EYDIE SINGS (758) |
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Eydie Gorme joined the band in 1950 at the age of seventeen and these live recordings are from 1951. Gregg Lawrence had a few minor chart successes when he was a member of The Frankie Carle Orchestra and he certainly gives a fine performance on "Be My Love". Gregg's successor (read more...)
[Item Code: 62374
CD: $13.00]
Track 01: Be My Love (a) |
UNIVERSAL
| STAN GETZ / THE BOSSA NOVA ALBUMS (10524) |
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5-CD set. Five CDs are Jazz Samba, Big Band Bossa Nova, Jazz Samba Encore, Getz/Gilberto and Stan Getz. The cooltoned tenor is heard on his groundbreaking collaboration with guitarist Charlie Byrd (which resulted in the bestselling "Desafinado"), is showcased with a big band arranged by Gary McFarland (introducing (read more...)
[Item Code: 62573
5-CD: $42.00]
Track 01: Desafinado [Off Key] |
| MONTY ALEXANDER / ALEXANDER THE GREAT! / MONTY SWINGS ON MPS (45062) |
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4-CD set including three live albums. Finally collected on CD: Monty Alexander's fierce and unmatched MPS piano classics. Highlighting impressive versatility of music- including "Now's The Time" by Charlie Parker and Stevie Wonder's "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life". Featured musicians include Jeff Hamilton on drums and John (read more...)
[Item Code: 62358
4-CD: $40.00]
Track 01: Montevideo |
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