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The West Coast Jazz Box, an Anthology of California Jazz
: :Although California jazz is often considered synonymous with the 'cool' sounds of musicians like Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan, the West Coast milieu was actually as diverse as the East Coast jazz scene. This impressive four-disc collection chronologically documents the progression and development of the many genres existing within the context of California jazz. While cerebral players like Dave Brubeck, Jimmy Guiffre, and Art Pepper are featured here, this anthology also includes works by more passionate figures, including Charles Mingus and Dexter Gordon. Highlighting cuts ...
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Turn Out the Stars: Final Village Vanguard Recordings
: :It's accidentally poetic that pianist Bill Evans made his most unforgettable live session at Max Gordon's Village Vanguard in 1961 (for that, try Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby) and recorded his second-best live set at the same venue in 1980, just three months shy of his death. Here's the document of the last stand, gathered on six CDs and glowing with a creative discovery that shines from Evans, drummer Joe LaBarbera, and bassist Marc Johnson. This trio had been together for ...
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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, or as some feel, ...
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The Complete 1959 Columbia Recordings
: 's Best of 1998:This three-CD box, with its 28 Mingus ensemble tracks, rounds out a portrait of jazz in 1959, a year when Miles Davis recorded Kind of Blue, John Coltrane cut Giant Steps, and Ornette Coleman unloosed The Shape of Jazz to Come. Mingus was on Columbia for a blink, only long enough to cut a couple of LPs (both of which appear here sans the unclean edits that've marred prior reissues). There is so much additional material here that the set warrants easy ...
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Guitar Virtuoso
: :Guitar Virtuoso distills the work Joe Pass did for Pablo records and producer Norman Granz between 1973 and 1992 into one terrific 4 CD package. Disc one culls some of his finest solo studio performances. Disc two places him in small group studio contexts, including duets with guitarist Herb Ellis, a trio with Oscar Peterson on piano and Ray Brown on bass, and a quartet with Duke Ellington on piano, Brown on bass, and Louis Bellson on drums. Disc three consists of live solo and ...
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The Complete Bill Evans on Verve
:Album Description:The packaging for this box set is made of untreated steel and is designed to be a unique, collectible object itself which will change in color, texture and appearance over time, and will rust. :The 18 CDs in this exhaustive set provide a comprehensive picture of Bill Evans from 1962 to 1969, a period when the pianist was both consolidating his fame and sometimes taking his music into untested waters, from unaccompanied piano to symphony orchestra. His work with multitracked solo piano, originally released ...
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The Best of the Big Bands
:Album Description:The packaging for this box set is made of untreated steel and is designed to be a unique, collectible object itself which will change in color, texture and appearance over time, and will rust. :The 18 CDs in this exhaustive set provide a comprehensive picture of Bill Evans from 1962 to 1969, a period when the pianist was both consolidating his fame and sometimes taking his music into untested waters, from unaccompanied piano to symphony orchestra. His work with multitracked solo piano, originally released ...
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The Ultimate Collection
: :This three-CD collection provides a remarkable overview of Louis Armstrong's career, beginning with 1924 recordings with Fletcher Henderson's orchestra and carrying all the way through the decades to include the pop hits from the 1960s, like 'Hello, Dolly' and 'What a Wonderful World.' Along the way, there's plenty to document Armstrong's position as the first great soloist of jazz, its first great singer, and a popular entertainer whose charm was as unique as his musical talent. The 1920s are represented by his stellar performances as ...
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Swing Out to Victory: Songs of WWII
: :This three-CD collection provides a remarkable overview of Louis Armstrong's career, beginning with 1924 recordings with Fletcher Henderson's orchestra and carrying all the way through the decades to include the pop hits from the 1960s, like 'Hello, Dolly' and 'What a Wonderful World.' Along the way, there's plenty to document Armstrong's position as the first great soloist of jazz, its first great singer, and a popular entertainer whose charm was as unique as his musical talent. The 1920s are represented by his stellar performances as ...
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Roots N' Blues: Retrospective 1925-1950
: :This three-CD collection provides a remarkable overview of Louis Armstrong's career, beginning with 1924 recordings with Fletcher Henderson's orchestra and carrying all the way through the decades to include the pop hits from the 1960s, like 'Hello, Dolly' and 'What a Wonderful World.' Along the way, there's plenty to document Armstrong's position as the first great soloist of jazz, its first great singer, and a popular entertainer whose charm was as unique as his musical talent. The 1920s are represented by his stellar performances as ...
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