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The Complete Riverside Recordings
: :The span of this 12-CD box set is generally acknowledged as the best Bill Evans material available. That's saying a lot, considering the high quality of The Complete Fantasy Recordings and The Complete Bill Evans on Verve. What the Riverside recordings display is a young Evans discovering his revolutionary harmonic depth and improvisational genius with bursts of energy that, by his second session, had established a kind of moody intensity that seemed to deepen the music while making it at once more complex and easier to absorb. Evans's Riverside years encompass ...
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King of the Clarinet 1938-39
: :The span of this 12-CD box set is generally acknowledged as the best Bill Evans material available. That's saying a lot, considering the high quality of The Complete Fantasy Recordings and The Complete Bill Evans on Verve. What the Riverside recordings display is a young Evans discovering his revolutionary harmonic depth and improvisational genius with bursts of energy that, by his second session, had established a kind of moody intensity that seemed to deepen the music while making it at once more complex and easier to absorb. Evans's Riverside years encompass ...
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The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz, Vol. 1-5
: :The span of this 12-CD box set is generally acknowledged as the best Bill Evans material available. That's saying a lot, considering the high quality of The Complete Fantasy Recordings and The Complete Bill Evans on Verve. What the Riverside recordings display is a young Evans discovering his revolutionary harmonic depth and improvisational genius with bursts of energy that, by his second session, had established a kind of moody intensity that seemed to deepen the music while making it at once more complex and easier to absorb. Evans's Riverside years encompass ...
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The Gene Krupa Story
:Album Description:Four disc retrospective of the legendary jazz drummer's output as a bandleader. Nearly five hours long in total, it contains three discs with studio tracks & one comprised of live performances & transcriptions. Also contains a 32 page booklet with a full discography, recording dates, personnel details for all of the enclosed works, extensive liner notes and loads of great photos. 99 tracks total. Comes packaged in a sturdy 2 x 5 x 6inch cardboard box. 1998. :Gene Krupa attained a level of fame unmatched by any other drummer in ...
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Time Signatures: A Career Retrospective
: :With material from 1946 to 1991, this handsome box set reveals the enormous breadth of Brubeck's interests, accomplishments, and collaborations. There are tracks, for example, with Louis Armstrong, Jimmy Rushing, Gerry Mulligan, and Carmen McRae. There's even a duo with Charles Mingus. Also here is the full range of Brubeck's studied structures, involved harmonies, and elements unusual to jazz, including expansive time signatures and the use of fugue form and 12-tone theory. Included, of course, are such signature hits as 'Blue Rondo a la Turk' and 'Take Five.' Brubeck came up ...
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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 by visitors like Miles Davis alongside ...
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Only The Best Of Nina Simone (6-CD)
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The Columbia Years (1943-1952): The Complete Recordings
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The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury, Vol. 7 (1961)
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Time After Time
:Album Description:Budget price compilation featuring 42 tracks including 'The Moon Was Yellow (And The Night Was Young)', 'The Coffee Song', 'Try A Little Tenderness', 'Someone To Watch Over Me', 'From This Day Forward', 'White Christmas', 'Close To You' & 'America The Beautiful'. Three standard jewel cases housed in a slipcase.
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