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The Voice: The Columbia Years (1943-1952)
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Young Miles
:Album Description:82 early tracks including classic encounters with Charlie Parker, the immortal 'Birth of the Cool' sessions and work with Sarah Vaughan. Four standard jewel cases housed in a CD box. 2001 release.
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The Complete Verve Studio Master Takes
:Album Description:For many people, Billie Holiday (a.k.a. 'Lady Day') wasn't just a jazz singer. She was the jazz singer, and remains so today. Thanks to her lifelong struggles with men, alcohol, and drug addiction, Holiday is often viewed as an archetypal example of the suffering artist--a singer who sang her life. And there's no denying the often heartrending quality of the classic recordings she made with musicians like Ben Webster, Oscar Peterson, and Harry 'Sweets' Edison.But Holiday's sophisticated sense of rhythm, subtle melodic improvisations, and nuanced way with a lyric enabled ...
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The Complete Riverside Recordings
: :With 15 jam-packed CDs and a well-designed LP-sized booklet with beautiful photos inside, this is the mother of all Thelonious Monk collections. Its supremacy is only in part related to girth and presentation, however. Historians and critics are almost unanimous in appraising the years Monk spent with the then-fledgling Riverside Records as his best. And this set catches it all, from the moments of deeply inspired, quicksilver genius to the foibles, miscues, and studio chatter (which is very minimal). Beginning in 1955 with a trio recording of Ellington tunes to the ...
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RCA Victor 80th Anniversary [9-CD BOX SET]
: :With 15 jam-packed CDs and a well-designed LP-sized booklet with beautiful photos inside, this is the mother of all Thelonious Monk collections. Its supremacy is only in part related to girth and presentation, however. Historians and critics are almost unanimous in appraising the years Monk spent with the then-fledgling Riverside Records as his best. And this set catches it all, from the moments of deeply inspired, quicksilver genius to the foibles, miscues, and studio chatter (which is very minimal). Beginning in 1955 with a trio recording of Ellington tunes to the ...
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Bix Restored, Vol. 3
: :With 15 jam-packed CDs and a well-designed LP-sized booklet with beautiful photos inside, this is the mother of all Thelonious Monk collections. Its supremacy is only in part related to girth and presentation, however. Historians and critics are almost unanimous in appraising the years Monk spent with the then-fledgling Riverside Records as his best. And this set catches it all, from the moments of deeply inspired, quicksilver genius to the foibles, miscues, and studio chatter (which is very minimal). Beginning in 1955 with a trio recording of Ellington tunes to the ...
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Lady Day: The Complete Columbia Golden Years
: :With 15 jam-packed CDs and a well-designed LP-sized booklet with beautiful photos inside, this is the mother of all Thelonious Monk collections. Its supremacy is only in part related to girth and presentation, however. Historians and critics are almost unanimous in appraising the years Monk spent with the then-fledgling Riverside Records as his best. And this set catches it all, from the moments of deeply inspired, quicksilver genius to the foibles, miscues, and studio chatter (which is very minimal). Beginning in 1955 with a trio recording of Ellington tunes to the ...
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Complete Live Performances on Savoy: Sept. 29, 1947-Oct. 25, 1950
: :For years, the audio quality of many of the performances gathered on these four CDs prevented a full-on embrace, what with all the other available Charlie Parker out there. But this collection restores these sessions to notoriety. They're mostly from New York's Royal Roost, 1948 to 1950, but with a 1947 Carnegie Hall supergroup concert and a 1950 Chicago pickup date that boasts some unknowns--and undersung guitarist George Freeman--with Parker. First, the single drawback: emcee and radio host 'Symphony Sid' Torin's sometimes obsequious, faux-hipster shtick that bookends several of the tunes. ...
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Living Music: The Holiday Collection Deluxe Box Set
: :Who but America's favorite East coast homemaker, media mogul and former jailbird could deliver a holiday box set appealing to main street with almost as many selections as there are varieties of Christmas trees?! Martha Stewart does everything big and even her shareholders would argue, tastefully. So when she got out of the big house recently, Stewart and her elves put together this three-disc set featuring 18 songs from the traditional pop world, a 16-track holiday jazz sampler spanning from the Chris Botti present to the Louie Armstrong past, and a ...
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Mercury Blues 'n' Rhythm Story 1945-1955
: :Blues 'n' Rhythm Story devotes two discs to four regions--the Midwest, Southwest, West Coast, and East Coast. Featured artists range from the acclaimed (Professor Longhair, Lightnin' Hopkins, Jay McShann, 'Cleanhead' Vinson, Dinah Washington) to the wayward. Nevertheless, the overall quality is remarkably high. The 88-page booklet helps put the music in perspective. This isn't a modest investment for a collector, but it's certainly among the elite of the R&B collections yet assembled. --Steven Stolder
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