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The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings of John Coltrane (Incl: 7 CD's; 72 Pg. Hd.C. Book)
: :John Coltrane not only made his reputation once and for all during his brief 1959-61 stay at Atlantic Records; he cut enough material to allow the label to continue releasing 'new' albums (the Don Cherry collaboration The Avant-Garde) until a year before his 1967 death. The Heavyweight Champion collects those masters plus revealing alternate takes and false starts in a typical handsome Rhino box that is also packed with informative notes and great Lee Friedlander photos. While the sheer volume of music and emotion Coltrane ...
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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 ...
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The Complete Quartets & Quintets
: :This five-CD set might begin with sultry, quavering vibraphone and delicately struck piano notes, but the temperature stays low for only the briefest of time. For the rest of the set, the temperature is high and the groove is on. Vibraphonist Lionel Hampton and pianist Oscar Peterson joined arms in the studio fewer than 10 times between 1953 and 1954 to cut the 15 or so records that comprise this set. They were an in-studio band exclusively, never unleashing their alchemy on audiences, perhaps because ...
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The Songbook Collection
: :This five-CD set might begin with sultry, quavering vibraphone and delicately struck piano notes, but the temperature stays low for only the briefest of time. For the rest of the set, the temperature is high and the groove is on. Vibraphonist Lionel Hampton and pianist Oscar Peterson joined arms in the studio fewer than 10 times between 1953 and 1954 to cut the 15 or so records that comprise this set. They were an in-studio band exclusively, never unleashing their alchemy on audiences, perhaps because ...
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A Night Out With Verve
: :This bargain-priced four-CD set presents itself as easy, event-based listening, with the CDs individually titled 'Wining,' 'Dining,' 'Dancing,' and 'Romancing.' A glimpse at the track list and personnel, however, immediately reveals that, much more than 'easy listening,' it's an extraordinary collection of jazz performances culled from the Verve archives and including material from the label's classic and recent periods, as well as from subsidiary labels. The selection has been made with remarkable thoughtfulness, pulling out tracks that may surprise even veteran listeners. John Coltrane plays ...
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The Complete Prestige Recordings
: :This 7 CD set traces the rise of tenor saxophone giant Sonny Rollins from a talented neophyte with a big beat and a big sound, to one of the most commanding melodic and rhythmic innovators of the 1950s. Inspired by R&B/Blues master Louis Jordan, Rollins soon fell under the spell of tenor saxophone trendsetters Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, gravitating to the enormous sound of the latter, and the spacious phrasing of the other. And finally, there was the grand rhythmic/harmonic mastery of Charlie Parker, ...
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Blood on the Fields
: essential recording:Just as Charles Mingus owed a great debt to Duke Ellington, Blood on the Fields makes clear how much Wynton Marsalis owes to Mingus. Marsalis won the Pulitzer Prize for Blood in 1997, decades after Ellington should've won for any of two or three suite-length works, and it's clear this piece was worth it. The blats and instrumental slurs that ricochet into melodies are certainly Ellingtonian, but only when you consider that Mingus revised them with vigorous energy. Further, the spoken-word passages, taken ...
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Schoolhouse Rock! (1973 TV Series)
: :It's hard to overestimate the effect Schoolhouse Rock had on anyone who was a child between 1973 and 1985. Forty-one three-minute educational cartoons set to original songs, they were the original music videos, and they taught countless kids the difference between adjectives ('Unpack Your Adjectives') and adverbs ('Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here'), how to multiply ('Three Is a Magic Number'), basic principles of science ('Do the Circulation,' 'Interplanet Janet'), and American civics ('I'm Just a Bill,' 'The Preamble'). All of the original songs ...
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Club Verboten
: :It's hard to overestimate the effect Schoolhouse Rock had on anyone who was a child between 1973 and 1985. Forty-one three-minute educational cartoons set to original songs, they were the original music videos, and they taught countless kids the difference between adjectives ('Unpack Your Adjectives') and adverbs ('Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here'), how to multiply ('Three Is a Magic Number'), basic principles of science ('Do the Circulation,' 'Interplanet Janet'), and American civics ('I'm Just a Bill,' 'The Preamble'). All of the original songs ...
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The Complete Rodgers & Hart Songbooks
: :It's hard to overestimate the effect Schoolhouse Rock had on anyone who was a child between 1973 and 1985. Forty-one three-minute educational cartoons set to original songs, they were the original music videos, and they taught countless kids the difference between adjectives ('Unpack Your Adjectives') and adverbs ('Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here'), how to multiply ('Three Is a Magic Number'), basic principles of science ('Do the Circulation,' 'Interplanet Janet'), and American civics ('I'm Just a Bill,' 'The Preamble'). All of the original songs ...
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