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Sun Bear Concerts
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The Complete Fantasy Recordings
: :Given the peerless depth of Bill Evans's work for Riverside in the early 1960s (collected in its entirety on The Complete Riverside Recordings) followed by some similarly stellar outings on Verve (collected on the mammoth 18-CD Complete Bill Evans on Verve), it's understandable that the pianist's work from the 1970s might get short shrift. Understandable, but not justified, as this nine-CD set illustrates. Evans's years at Fantasy brought forth some monuments, including his first session of duets with Tony Bennett. His solo and trio work continues to develop over the course ...
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Beauty Is a Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic Recordings
: essential recording:The opportunity to possess--in one convenient package--every recording Ornette Coleman made for Atlantic is an opportunity most fans of modern jazz would be hard pressed to turn down. (It must be noted, however, that many jazz fans would have a very easy time turning down anything Ornette recorded, thank you very much). But for Coleman fans, this collection is an embarrassment of riches. Arranged chronologically by recording date, the set collects music from 1959 to 1961, the period many consider Ornette's most vital. Included are sessions from Free Jazz, ...
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The Lady Sings
:Album Description:UK box-set featuring 99 tracks that highlight the late jazz icon's career between 1935-49. Backed by small All Star bands under Teddy Wilson's & her own leadership & the more formal studio bands during her Decca days, Billie turns every song into poetry. Includes 56 page booklet with rare pictures, discography & story. Four standard jewel cases housed in a box. 2001.
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Yes Indeed
:Album Description:UK budget-price box-set from one of the best pop singers of her generation. 99 tracks including a 40 page illustrated booklet. Four standard jewel cases housed in a slipcase. 2001.
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The Complete Blue Note Recordings
: :While this innovative pianist-composer shares a fascination for disjunctive harmonies, complex rhythmic interplay, and oblique vocalized melodies with his better-known contemporary, Thelonious Monk, Herbie Nichols's more elongated gait and linear propulsion suggest 20th-century classicism and the polyphony of New Orleans, much as Monk's more jagged phrasing seems to extend on devices originated by icons of the Harlem stride school and the bent-note inflections of rural blues guitarists. These Blue Note sides represent the complete output of five visionary sessions Nichols recorded for producer Alfred Lion in 1955-1956, and reflect the pianist's ...
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Four Women: Nina Simone Philips Recordings
:Album Description:This beautiful, 4-CD set takes all seven albums that Nina Simone recorded for Philips - Broadway/Blues/Ballads, I Put A Spell On You, Pastel Blues, Let It All Out, Wild Is The Wind and the classics Nina Simone in Concert and High Priestess of Soul - and packages them with a 56-page booklet containing rare photos and detailed liner notes to form a tremendous tribute to one of the great singers and personalities of our time. The discs are housed in sleeves within the hardback book, which is housed in a ...
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Yes I Can! The Sammy Davis Jr. Story
: :Onstage, nobody could match the wham of Sammy Davis Jr. Best known now as arguably the coolest member of the Rat Pack, Sammy Davis Jr. was one of the world's great entertainers, a guy capable of funny impersonations, heartwarming ballads, and lively jazz-inspired songs--usually in the same set. Granted, Sinatra's vocal skills overshadowed Davis on record, but what other musician has found such success as a writer, Broadway star, vocalist, dancer, and comedian (all the while helping to break down racial barriers)? With Yes I Can! The Sammy Davis Jr. Story, ...
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DGQ-20
: :If Bill Monroe was to mountain music what Louis Armstrong was to jazz, then David Grisman is the Miles Davis of bluegrass. DGQ-20 is kind of Grisman's 20-year housecleaning. The collection on Grisman's own Acoustic Disc label consists entirely of previously unreleased live and studio recordings featuring the dawged jazz/bluegrass mandolinist working in tandem with the likes of Stephane Grapelli, Vassar Clements, Jerry Garcia, and the Kronos Quartet. Listening to all three discs will leave you dawg tired, but exhilarated. --Steven Stolder
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Billie Holiday: The Complete Decca Recordings
: essential recording:Holiday recorded for Decca between 1944 and 1950, a period in which she was at the heights of both her popularity and her vocal powers. The music is less jazz-oriented in its backing than were the earlier Columbia and Commodore or later Verve recordings, but these are superb vocal performances, including matchless renderings of 'Lover Man,' 'Don't Explain,' and 'Solitude.' Holiday achieved the highest level that torch singing has ever known, creating consummately expressive, almost etched renditions that are richly nuanced, often enhanced by tasteful string arrangements. Holiday's deepest ...
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Diesel vehicles have nearly a 50-percent market share in Europe, thanks to tax incentives and diesel-friendly legislation across the EU. Diesels are so passé there that you can buy a BMW 730d and no one will think it odd that your luxury car burns oil. Pull up in a diesel 7-Series in America and people would leer at you like you've alighted from an amphibious vehicle reeking of saltwater and dead trout.