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The Original Jazz Masters Series, Vol. 1
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The Bossa Nova Years (Girl from Ipanema)
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Only the Best of Manhattan Transfer (3-CD Bundle Pack)
: :The classics Manhattan Transfer albums ''Man-Tora!: Live In Tokyo'', ''Live '86'', ''Boy From New York City And Other Hits'' on 3 CDs. Featuring the hits ''Birdland'', ''Gloria'', ''That's Killer Joe'' and 36 other original recordings.
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Live Trane: The European Tours
: :The music on this seven-CD set was recorded during three European tours, capturing Coltrane live as he was becoming the most compelling, most influential musician in jazz. His working relationships with pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones were already solidly in place on the 1961 tour, which also had Eric Dolphy on reeds and Reggie Workman on bass. For the '62 and '63 tours, the classic quartet with Tyner, Jones, and bassist Jimmy Garrison had found its form. There are multiple performances of Coltrane's favorite vehicles here, tunes to which ...
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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, Bud Powell and (especially) his elder ...
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The Engine Room: A History of Jazz Drumming from Storyville to 52nd Street
:Album Description:Budget-priced box set featuring over five hours of music on 4 CDs from the top skin-beaters. This is the definitive history of jazz drumming from Storyville to 52nd Street. Includes tracks from Baby Dodds, Ben Pollack, Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, Big Sid Catlett and dozens more. Also contains a fully illustrated 48 page booklet with references, a discography and bio on each artist. 95 tracks! Each disc comes in a separate standard jewel case within a thick, full color slipcase box. 1999 release.
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Roots N' Blues: Retrospective 1925-1950
:Album Description:Budget-priced box set featuring over five hours of music on 4 CDs from the top skin-beaters. This is the definitive history of jazz drumming from Storyville to 52nd Street. Includes tracks from Baby Dodds, Ben Pollack, Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, Big Sid Catlett and dozens more. Also contains a fully illustrated 48 page booklet with references, a discography and bio on each artist. 95 tracks! Each disc comes in a separate standard jewel case within a thick, full color slipcase box. 1999 release.
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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 by the ensemble, hearken to Mingus's ...
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The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965
: :This eight-CD set captures Miles Davis's second great quintet at its fiercest, loose with both the blossoming of familiarity between the players and the broadness of its attacks on the mostly well known tunes the group called during two nights at Chicago's Plugged Nickel in 1965. And you can hear it all, from 'The Theme' that closed the quintet's sets to multiple, radically different takes of several tunes. Davis formed this band with just its heated potential in mind, opting for youth in Wayne Shorter's tenor sax, Herbie Hancock's piano, Ron ...
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The Songbook Collection
: :This eight-CD set captures Miles Davis's second great quintet at its fiercest, loose with both the blossoming of familiarity between the players and the broadness of its attacks on the mostly well known tunes the group called during two nights at Chicago's Plugged Nickel in 1965. And you can hear it all, from 'The Theme' that closed the quintet's sets to multiple, radically different takes of several tunes. Davis formed this band with just its heated potential in mind, opting for youth in Wayne Shorter's tenor sax, Herbie Hancock's piano, Ron ...
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