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The Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68: The Complete Columbia Studio
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Her Greatest Hits
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Exclusively for My Friends
: :These four discs collect the material on six long plays of trios and solos that Oscar Peterson recorded in Villingen, Germany, between 1963 and 1968. On standards galore, Peterson never lets up in his rigorous, swinging approach. He is at his prime on these recordings, as he himself noted later. The improvisations range from extraordinary to awe-inspiring. The lyricism of Nat King Cole is in there, along with Art Tatum-esque rococoisms and Bud Powell-like attack. Which partners best complemented Peterson's girth, and bowed to it least, is always in dispute. On ...
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Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note: The Complete Recordings
: :These four discs collect the material on six long plays of trios and solos that Oscar Peterson recorded in Villingen, Germany, between 1963 and 1968. On standards galore, Peterson never lets up in his rigorous, swinging approach. He is at his prime on these recordings, as he himself noted later. The improvisations range from extraordinary to awe-inspiring. The lyricism of Nat King Cole is in there, along with Art Tatum-esque rococoisms and Bud Powell-like attack. Which partners best complemented Peterson's girth, and bowed to it least, is always in dispute. On ...
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Bing! His Legendary Years, 1931 to 1957
: :Bing Crosby was a laidback swinger, and this four-CD box spends a fair amount of its time reminding us of an era when the emphasis was as much on the swing as on the lazy-lidded attitude. Never as angst-ridden as Sinatra could be, and consequently not as multilayered, Crosby is nonetheless not a singer to be missed. The quarter century surveyed here includes cultural touchstones ('White Christmas,' 'Don't Fence Me In') and obscurities. All deserve to be heard by fans of the American song book and stylish performances. --Rickey Wright
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The Freelance Years: The Complete Riverside and Contemporary Recordings
: :Sonny Rollins has been a major figure in jazz since the 1950s, a titanic improviser whose weighty sound and speech-like ease have embodied a larger-than-life personality--swaggering, comic, soaring, and tender by turns. For all that career longevity, though, his most creative work dates from the flowering of his talent in the late '50s, when he emerged as a dominant presence after years as a sideman with Miles Davis and Max Roach. He had developed a unique gift for the extended solo, creating remarkable musical architecture with fragments of melody and infinitely ...
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Joe Henderson - The Milestone Years 8 CD Box Set
: :TRACK LIST: Mamacita Kicker, The Chelsea Bridge If Nardis Without A Song Mo' Joe O Amor Em Paz :: Once I Loved Tetragon First Trip I've Got You Under My Skin Invitation R.J. Waltz For Zweetie Bead Game, The You Don't Know What Love Is Unilateral Scavenger, The But Not For Me Power To The People Afro-Centric Black Narcissus Isotope Opus One-Point-Five Lazy Afternoon Foresight And Afterthought Caribbean Fire Dance Recorda-Me - (previously unreleased) Shade Of Jade, A - (previously unreleased) Isotope - (previously unreleased) Round Midnight Mode For Joe ...
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The Secret Sessions
: :'Bill [Evans] was being recorded once a year, if that,' notes Mike Harris, who surreptitiously recorded all of the music found on this revelatory eight-CD collection, 'and this incredible music was just going up in the air 363 days out of 365.' Thanks to the sheer devotion (obsession?) of Harris, it wasn't. Harris and his wife were always front-and-center at New York's Village Vanguard whenever Evans brought his trio in for a run, tape machine humming. Evans was notoriously reluctant to record, so, moral issues aside, the release of secret Evans ...
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COLTRANE The Classic Quartet: Complete Impulse! Studio Recordings
: essential recording:There have been many Coltrane compilations and box sets over the years since the saxophonist's passing in 1967, but this eight-CD complete collection of his quartet's studio recordings between 1961 and 1965 is the must-have. Jazz may be a music blessed with dazzling soloists, but few groups in its history seem up to perfectly matching the intentions of their leaders: Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven, Bill Evans's trio of 1960-61, and Miles Davis's mid-60's quintet are among the few that immediately come to mind. Coltrane's quartet of ...
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1940's Christmas
: essential recording:There have been many Coltrane compilations and box sets over the years since the saxophonist's passing in 1967, but this eight-CD complete collection of his quartet's studio recordings between 1961 and 1965 is the must-have. Jazz may be a music blessed with dazzling soloists, but few groups in its history seem up to perfectly matching the intentions of their leaders: Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven, Bill Evans's trio of 1960-61, and Miles Davis's mid-60's quintet are among the few that immediately come to mind. Coltrane's quartet of ...
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