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Album DescriptionDexter Gordon considered this his finest album and few would disagree. With the perfect rhythm section of Sonny Clark, Butch Warren and Billy Higgins, this tenor giant reinvents standards like “Three O’Clock In The Morning,” “Second Balcony Jump” and “Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out To Dry” and introduces his most famous composition... »
When I Look in Your Eyes
Album DescriptionJapanese edition of the accomplished Canadian jazz pianist/ vocalist’s 1999 outing with ‘P.S. I Love You’ added as a bonus track, for a total of 14 selections.Amazon.comYears after the ’90s, the decade will be remembered for the rise of pianist-vocalist Diana Krall. Simply put, this British Columbian-born artist is one of the most... »
Giant Steps
Amazon.com essential recordingReleased in January 1960, John Coltrane’s first album devoted entirely to his own compositions confirmed his towering command of tenor saxophone and his emerging power as a composer. Apprenticeships with Dizzy, Miles, and Monk had helped focus his furious, expansive solos, and his stamina and underlying sense of harmonic adventure brought Coltrane,... »
Best Of Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Amazon.com essential recordingElla Fitzgerald’s voice was satin to Louis Armstrong’s sandpaper, but when you put them together on a single song, their chemistry was unimpeachable. This disc selects highlights from the three albums they made together at Verve (including their Porgy and Bess), and adds a spiffy live track from the Hollywood Bowl. Though... »
Oscar Peterson Christmas
Product DescriptionNo Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: PETERSON,OSCARTitle: CHRISTMASStreet Release Date: 08/29/2006… More >> Oscar Peterson Christmas »
Fearless Leader
Amazon.com Younger fans may think John Coltrane can’t possibly have recorded everything on this six-box Prestige collection in only a year and a half–the first session being in May 1957, the last in December 1958. These days, even the most prolific artists are lucky if they get to record once a year. But these... »
Return to Forever: Returns – Live at Montreux
DescriptionReturn To Forever were at the forefront of jazz/rock fusion in the seventies and like their contemporaries Weather Report and Mahavishnu Orchestra were formed by a former Miles Davis sideman, in this case the great Chick Corea. Return To Forever hit their commercial and artistic peak with a string of albums in the mid-seventies... »
Moanin’
Amazon.com essential recordingThis is truly one of the great classics of hard bop, with drummer Art Blakey leading arguably his greatest Jazz Messengers lineup through a driving program that never lets up. Tenor saxophonist Benny Golson (whose composition “Along Came Betty” is heard here, subsequently becoming a jazz classic), brilliant trumpeter Lee Morgan, and... »
Somethin’ Else
Amazon.comWhen alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley culled together this quartet, he grabbed three champions from seemingly disparate schools to complement his flinty solos: Miles Davis, the king of cool; Art Blakey, the thundering force of hard bop; Hank Jones, a veteran of swing; and Sam Jones, a versatile bassist adaptable to nearly any setting. The... »