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The Lester Young Story
:Album Description:84 tracks, 52 page illustrated booklet. 4 CD set presents the life & times of the influential jazz musician. 4 hours of tenor magic from his earliest recording through the Basie Band with Billie Holiday, in his own group & right up to the 'Jazz At The Philharmonic' period. Includes material with Buck Clayton, Benny Goodman, Nat King Cole, Buddy Rich & more.Each disc comes in it's own standard jewel case & come housed together in a deluxe slipcase. :The Lester Young Story is a ...
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Jazz Moods: An Intimate Evening
: :An Intimate Evening is a set of three discs from Concord Records' budget-priced Jazz Moods series: Dinner by Candlelight, Jazz by the Fire, and Jazz at Night's End (and priced even lower in this set). It's really a sampler of the last 20 years of Concord's excellent jazz catalog, gathered here in one-hour sets that are somewhat indistinguishable groups of great ballads, other than that Candlelight has no vocals and Night's End does in fact include some classic late-night tunes (''Round Midnight,' 'In the Wee Small ...
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Live at the Lighthouse
:Album Description:This double LP, which was trumpeter Lee Morgan's next-to-last recording, contains four lengthy side-long explorations by the trumpeter's regular quintet of the period (with Bennie Maupin on tenor, flute and bass clarinet, pianist Harold Mabern, bassist Jymie Merritt and drummer Mickey Roker). The music is very modal-oriented and probably disappointed many of Morgan's longtime fans but he had gotten tired of playing the same hard bop-styled music that he had excelled at during the past decade and was searching for newer sounds. The influence of ...
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The Complete Riverside Recordings
: :Guitarist Wes Montgomery recorded for Riverside from 1959 to 1963, going in that time from an obscure Indianapolis musician to the most celebrated guitarist in jazz. All the reasons for that rise are here, in a 12-CD box that includes 49 previously unreleased and alternate takes. The settings range from the organ trios with which Montgomery often worked to tracks with string accompaniment, but the music is all linked by the guitarist's highly original approach, using thumb picking and frequent octave runs to put his signature ...
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The Best of the Big Bands
: :Guitarist Wes Montgomery recorded for Riverside from 1959 to 1963, going in that time from an obscure Indianapolis musician to the most celebrated guitarist in jazz. All the reasons for that rise are here, in a 12-CD box that includes 49 previously unreleased and alternate takes. The settings range from the organ trios with which Montgomery often worked to tracks with string accompaniment, but the music is all linked by the guitarist's highly original approach, using thumb picking and frequent octave runs to put his signature ...
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The Complete Blue Note Recordings
: :While this innovative pianist-composer shares a fascination for disjunctive harmonies, complex rhythmic interplay, and oblique vocalized melodies with his better-known contemporary, Thelonious Monk, Herbie Nichols's more elongated gait and linear propulsion suggest 20th-century classicism and the polyphony of New Orleans, much as Monk's more jagged phrasing seems to extend on devices originated by icons of the Harlem stride school and the bent-note inflections of rural blues guitarists. These Blue Note sides represent the complete output of five visionary sessions Nichols recorded for producer Alfred Lion in ...
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Q: The Musical Biography of Quincy Jones
: :This stunning four-CD collection is a great companion to Quincy Jones's excellent autobiography. It's also a great compilation of his eclectic genius, which has touched everyone from bebopper Clifford Brown to hip-hop rapper Ice-T. The Grammy Award-winning composer-producer has something for everybody here. His jazz sides include his first recorded trumpet solo on 'Kingfish' (with the great vibraphonist Lionel Hampton). There's also his swinging composition 'Stockholm Sweetnin'' and his hip arrangements for Peggy Lee, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan, and Miles Davis. Film buffs will love Jones's ...
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Hits of the 30's & 40's, Vol. 1 & 2
:Album Details:The Era of Big Band Swing Represented the First Real Instance of Jazz Music, Or Very Close Derivatives of Jazz, Becoming Part of the Mainstream of Popular Music. The Tunes Became Standards of the Time that People Whistled on their Way to Work, the Musicians Became Superstars Mobbed by Fans, and Top Names Like Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller and Harry James Sold Records by the Millions. Swing, was the Pop of Its Day!
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the rat pack -10 cd-set
:Album Details:Includes 10 CDs.
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Masterpieces: 1926-1949
:Album Description:UK budget-price 4CD box-set. Includes 52 page illustrated booklet. 93 tracks in all including 'Misty Mornin', 'Slippery Horn', 'Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart', 'All Too Soon', & 'Creole Love Call'. Packaged in a slipcase with standard jewel cases. 2001.
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