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Manhattan Nights: The Complete Golden Years Studio Sessions
:Album Description:For the first time, all the studio master takes recorded at the fifties (except Victor two LP and a half), plus a rare rehearsal recorded with pianist and club owner George Wein, and a session with Joe Bushkin in 1965. Includes Irving Berlin, Vincent Youmans and Richard Rodgers Songbooks, featuring Bobby Hackett, Ruby Braff and the duo Stan Freeman and Cy Walter. 2 CD set
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The Columbia Years: '62-'68
: :While occasionally maligned, Thelonious Monk's '60s recordings for Columbia yielded many moments of warmth and ingenuity. His first two albums for the label, Monk's Dream and Criss-Cross, rank among his very best; the latter demonstrated the company's success in raising his profile, becoming in 1963 his sole LP to place on the pop charts. This three-CD box, like the 2000 collection of Prestige sessions, aims to push Monk's '60s music into the spotlight shared by his Blue Note and Riverside classics. While deviled by a handful of questionable choices, The Columbia ...
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Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre (Finian's Rainbow, Kiss Me Kate, South Pacific, Guys and Dolls)
: :By the time he'd turned his own Reprise Records label into a going concern in 1963, Frank Sinatra could happily stub out his cigarette on Tradition, then douse the ashes with the slurry of his double bourbon on the rocks. It's not that Sinatra didn't respect the Broadway musical; indeed, he'd done quite well by its ballads over the course of his storied career. But that haughty Tradition--well, she was just another dame who had to go. So Sinatra swiftly showed her the door. Teaming up with musical director Morris Stoloff, ...
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The Great Frankie Laine
:Album Description:A new addition to this Australian Only series of remastered original recordings in a quality slip case box with gold print.
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Way Back Home
:Album Description:A new addition to this Australian Only series of remastered original recordings in a quality slip case box with gold print.
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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 'You're a Weaver of Dreams' with ...
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Giants of the Big Band Era
: :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 'You're a Weaver of Dreams' with ...
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The Complete Columbia Studio Sessions, 1965-68
:Album Description:Japanese limited edition 20bit mastered 6 CD box set. Limited edition for initial pressing only. Pre order basis only! :By 1965 Miles Davis had gone through a handful of stages, from the Birth of the Cool nonet's multihued orchestrations to the development of a hard-bop sound keeled on Davis's midregister wooziness and the band's driving backbone in the 'first' great quintet (featuring John Coltrane), to the modal freedom of Kind of Blue. So when the solidly established Davis convened a new quintet, known as his 'second' great one, and hired ...
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The History of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
:Album Description:Japanese limited edition 20bit mastered 6 CD box set. Limited edition for initial pressing only. Pre order basis only! :By 1965 Miles Davis had gone through a handful of stages, from the Birth of the Cool nonet's multihued orchestrations to the development of a hard-bop sound keeled on Davis's midregister wooziness and the band's driving backbone in the 'first' great quintet (featuring John Coltrane), to the modal freedom of Kind of Blue. So when the solidly established Davis convened a new quintet, known as his 'second' great one, and hired ...
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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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