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The Mel Tormé Collection
: :Mel Torme has always resented his famous nickname, 'The Velvet Fog,' not because it's inaccurate, but because it only captures one small aspect of his music-making. He does have a velvety baritone that creates a breathy intimacy on certain romantic ballads. But he has done much, much more in a 67-year professional career that began when he was a four-year-old novelty singer for Chicago's Coon-Sanders Nighthawk Band in 1929 and continues today as the last of the great pre-rock crooners whose ...
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Complete In a Silent Way Sessions
: :Recorded and released in 1969, In a Silent Way was one of Miles Davis's most mysterious and elusive efforts. That was not only because the album, boasting one long track on each side, was so austerely understated, but also because it stood apart from the music that preceded it, the music the trumpeter was performing in concert, and the revolution that followed--a.k.a. Bitches Brew. Making use of multiple keyboardists--Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea on electric piano and Joe Zawinul on organ--the ...
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The Herbie Hancock Box
: :Since the 1960s, Herbie Hancock has been one of the major figures in contemporary jazz, even if his restless creative muse sometimes confounded his longtime trad-jazz followers at the same time it was winning him fans from other genres. The first half of this four-disc, 34-track career retrospective leans heavily on Hancock's musical foundations, as distilled through acoustic performances from the late '70s and early '80s (most of which have heretofore only been issued in Japan), many with his former Miles ...
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Monterey Jazz Festival: 40 Legendary Years
: :Since the 1960s, Herbie Hancock has been one of the major figures in contemporary jazz, even if his restless creative muse sometimes confounded his longtime trad-jazz followers at the same time it was winning him fans from other genres. The first half of this four-disc, 34-track career retrospective leans heavily on Hancock's musical foundations, as distilled through acoustic performances from the late '70s and early '80s (most of which have heretofore only been issued in Japan), many with his former Miles ...
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Jazz Weekend
: :Since the 1960s, Herbie Hancock has been one of the major figures in contemporary jazz, even if his restless creative muse sometimes confounded his longtime trad-jazz followers at the same time it was winning him fans from other genres. The first half of this four-disc, 34-track career retrospective leans heavily on Hancock's musical foundations, as distilled through acoustic performances from the late '70s and early '80s (most of which have heretofore only been issued in Japan), many with his former Miles ...
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Great Vocalists
:Album Description:UK budget-price box-set featuring one disc apiece for Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin, Billie Holiday, Perry Como, Dinah Shore, Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee. Each disc comes in a slipcase and all are housed in a deluxe box. 2001.
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The Complete Blue Note Sixties Sessions
: :This six-CD set collects the towering tenor saxophonist's Blue Note recordings from 1961 to 1965--a period of high creativity in a long and diverse career that had begun in the bop revolution of the '40s. Throughout he is heard in the quartets and quintets that he preferred, playing with unique authority and sustained invention. The support is consistently strong and sometimes brilliant, including contributions from pianist Sonny Clark and drummer Philly Joe Jones. A Paris session with fellow bop pioneers Bud ...
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The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions
: :These historic sessions, recorded between 1969 and 1970 and originally released as a 90-minute double LP, merged jazz and rock into the hybrid genre known as fusion. They remain Miles Davis's most controversial recordings. Davis, along with pianists Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and Joe Zawinul; bassist Dave Holland; soprano saxophonist Wayne Shorter; bass clarinetist Benny Maupin; drummers Jack DeJohnette, Billy Cobham, and Lenny White; and percussionist Airto Moreira, went electric with rock rhythms, and the rest, as they say, is history, ...
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The Complete Helen Forrest with Benny Goodman
:Album Description:From one of the greatest singers from the Swing Era, this 3 CD retrospective features Helen & Benny Goodman's complete work together. Over half of these tracks have never been on CD. Also included in this Collectors' Choice Music release are tons of photos and extensive liner notes.
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Army Air Force Band
: :'Real, live American music'--that's what bandleader Glenn Miller wanted to deliver to the troops fighting World War II. To him, the entertainment factor far outweighed the artistic one. As it turned out, he was able to succeed on both counts, delighting the troops with an Army Air Force Band as dynamic and versatile as any he ever led. Capt. Miller received his commission in October 1942, and his huge band--45 or more singers and musicians--was activated in March 1943. Though Miller ...
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