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Ella Fitzgerald was in prime form during her 1960 tour of Europe and her Berlin concert, which opened the tour, won her critical acclaim and two Grammys (Best Female Vocal Performance (Single) and Best Vocal Performance (Album). It's most remembered for her hilariously inventive performance of "Mack the Knife," during which she forgot the lyrics and substituted her own without losing stride. Mastered by Bernie Grundman from the original analog master tapes.

Track Listing

1. Gone with the Wind
2. Misty
3. Lady Is a Tramp
4. Man I Love
5. Summertime
6. Too Darn Hot
7. Lorelei
8. Mack the Knife
9. How High the Moon

Produced by Willie Dixon, J.B. Lenoir's second to last 1965 album Alabama Blues features stripped down acoustic arrangements that cast him as a Southern folk-blues troubadour. Inspired by the Civil Rights and Free Speech movements, Alabama Blues finds Lenoir socially committed and passionate and it easily stands as one of his crowning achievements.

Track Listing:

1. Alabama Blues
2. The Mojo Boogie
3. God's Word
4. The Whale Has Swallowed Me
5. Move This Rope
6. I Feel So Good
7. Alabama March
8. Talk To Your Daughter
9. Mississippi Road
10. Good Advice
11. Vietnam
12. I Want To Go

Recorded in NYC on Oct 13, 1958, Coltrane Time was originally released as Hard Driving Jazz (mono version)/Stereo Drive (stereo version) and the then 29-year-old pianist Cecil Taylor (not John Coltrane) originally got top billing on this date. This session is interesting because it is the only one Taylor ever did with Coltrane, and considering Taylor’s status as one of the true founders of free jazz and Coltrane’s status as a jazz legend, it is a kind of missing link in the history of jazz. Here the group plays two originals (one by trumpet player Kenny Dorham and one by bass man Chuck Israels), while the other two tracks “Just Friends” and “Like Someone In Love” are standards, an interesting look into early Taylor, because by the early '60s he was playing almost exclusively original compositions. One of the most uncompromising and unique pianists in jazz, his difficult and percussive style has placed him in a class of his own, making him one of those artists you either love or hate…but love or hate him, there is no denying his contribution to jazz, and that his visionary music is still ahead of its time.

Track Listing:

1. Shifting Down
2. Just Friends
3. Like Someone In Love
4. Double Clutching

Art Blakey led many editions of his Jazz Messengers over more than three decades, but a strong argument can be made that the Messengers of his Riverside period constituted his strongest unit. With Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter and Curtis Fuller in the front line, with Cedar Walton and Reggie Workman as Blakey’s rhythm-section mates, its combination of musicianship and sheer swinging force has rarely been equaled in a small band. Caravan was the first of Blakey’s Riverside albums and endures as a living monument to his nonpareil drumming and leadership. His solo on the title tune is one of the finest recorded examples of Blakey’s unique melding of precision and power. Hubbard and Shorter contributed memorable compositions and, with Fuller and Walton, some of the greatest soloing of the 1960s.

Caravan
Sweet N Sour
In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
This Is For Albert
Skylark
Thermo

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In 1955, Louis Armstrong, along with vocalist Velma Middleton, got into the studio to pay tribute to the late Fats Waller. All the standards are here: "Honeysuckle Rose," "Squeeze Me," "Ain't Misbehavin," rendered in fine and mellow but gently, genially swinging fashion. Armstrong's trumpet is superb and his voice carries the good-time spirit of Waller's music.

Louis Armstrong Satch Plays Fats Track Listing

1. Honeysuckle Rose
2. Blue Turning Grey Over You
3. I'm Crazy "Bout My Baby
4. Squeeze Me
5. Keepin' Out of Mischief
6. All That Meat and No Patatoes
7. I've got a feeling I'm Falling
8. Black and Blue
9. Ain't Misbehavin'
10. (What Did I Do To Be So) Black and Blue
11. I'm Crazy 'Bout my Baby
12. Blue Turning Grey Over You
13. I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling
14. Squeeze Me
15. (What Did I Do To Be So) Black and Blue
16. Ain't Misbehavin'
17. Blue Turning Grey Over You
18. Keepin' Out of Mischief Now
19. Sweet Savannah Sue
20. That Rhythm Man

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Those familiar with the dense, percussive style that pianist McCoy Tyner has cultivated since the 1970s onwards may be surprised by what they hear on Inception. Like Reaching Fourth and Nights of Ballads and Blues, this album gives listeners the chance to hear what a very young Tyner sounded like outside the confines of the classic John Coltrane quartet of the early '60s; it reveals a lyrical approach to jazz piano that seems a far cry from Tyner's mature style. The choice of material is fairly evenly split between modal pieces like "Inception" and more harmonically involved tunes like "Speak Low," and the pianist's treatment of both demonstrates the extent to which his early work was rooted in bebop. Tyner had yet to develop the massive orchestral sound and highly distinctive vocabulary of modal licks that would mark his later style, and throughout this album he spins dizzyingly long and singing lines with an exquisitely light touch. The irresistible rush of forward momentum that he maintains on tracks like "Effendi" and "Blues for Gwen" is breathtaking, and there is an exuberant, almost athletic quality to much of his solo work. Bassist Art Davis and drummer Elvin Jones provide superb accompaniment throughout, and they lay a solid rhythmic foundation for Tyner's sparkling melodic flights. The pianist's penchant for drama, which asserts itself more strongly in his later work, is on brief display in the original ballad "Sunset"; his skills as an arranger, though evident on several tracks, are perhaps best illustrated by the intricate contrapuntal treatment of "There Is No Greater Love."

McCoy Tyner Inception Track Listing

1. Inception
2. There Is No Greater Love
3. Blues for Gwen
4. Sunset
5. Effendi
6. Speak Low

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Julie Is Her Name was the first album by the sultry singer/actress Julie London released in December of 1955. For a time, Julie London was as famous for her sexy album covers as for her singing. "Cry Me a River" was her first charting hit and her breathy versions of "I Should Care," "Say It Isn't So," "Easy Street" and "Gone with the Wind" are equally as impressive. Features Barney Kessel on guitar and Ray Leatherwood on bass

Utilizing the mastering talent of the Bernie Grundman and his all-tube mastering system, this new Double 180g 45 RPM Set has better detail, sharper imaging and a greater sense of live music making. Pressed on HQ Vinyl.

Julie London Julie Is Her Name Volume 1 Track Listing

1. Cry Me a River
2. I Should Care
3. I'm in the Mood For Love
4. I'm Glad There Is You
5. Can't Help Lovin' That Man
6. I Love You
7. Say It Isn't So
8. It Never Entered My Mind
9. Easy Street
10. 'S Wonderful
11. No Moon At All
12. Laura
13. Gone With the Wind

This is the Gil Evans Orchestra that made its initial appearance at the Jazz Gallery in New York City toward the end of 1960. After having experimented with many different instrumentational formats, Gil has settled on this one as affording the most flexible outlet for his musical ideas. His taste for developments in all music is evidenced by his choice of material, his selection of personnel and by his compositional style. While some composer-arrangers in the jazz field tend to over-write in proportion to the time they spend and the techniques they learn, Evans seems to be headed in the opposite direction. Always aware of the importance of the improvised solo, his supporting material is never over-bearing.

The Gil Evans Orchestra Out Of The Cool Track Listing

1. La Nevada
2. Where Flamingos Fly
3. Bilbo Song
4. Stratusphunk
5. Sunken Treasure
6. Sister Sadie

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Elvin Jones was nearing the end of his long stay with John Coltrane when he led these sessions in 1965, and while the style is small-group post-bop, the music is very different from the thick textures of the Coltrane quartet. The core band is a trio with the Charlie Parker-influenced alto saxophonist Charlie Mariano and the brilliant bassist Richard Davis. Mariano soars overhead on a series of lyrical standards, including "Everything Happens to Me" and "This Love of Mine." Roland Hanna joins the group for the first three selections, and Elvin's brother, Hank for the last four. Of the Hanna tracks, Charles Mingus's "Love Bird" stands out, while Hank Jones' crisp and inventive lines shine on the classic bop of "Anthropology" and Ellington's "Fantazm."

Elvin Jones Dear John C. Track Listing

1. Dear John C.
2. Ballade
3. Love Bird
4. Everything Happens to Me
5. Smoke Rings
6. This Love of Mine
7. Anthropology
8. Feeling Good
9. Fantazm
10. That Five-Four Bang

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In 1960, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn arranged their own adaptation of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite for the Duke Ellington Orchestra.

Duke Ellington The Nutcracker Suite Track Listing

1. Overture
2. Toot Toot Tootsie Toot (Dance of the Reed-Flutes)
3. Peanut Brittle Brigade (March)
4. Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy)
5. Entr'acte
6. The Volga Vouty (Russian Trepak)
7. Chinoiserie (Chinese Tea)
8. Dance of the Floreadores (Waltz of the Flowers)
9. Arabesque Cookie (Arabian Coffee)

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This legendary 1961 date has a friendly after-hours feel, with the Ellington crew in the right channel and the Basie band in the left. They both deliver the type of no-nonsense straight-ahead jazz that characterized the best of the big-band sound. The sparring here between soloists of both bands is a pure delight, especially the gentle conversations between the two leaders-pianists, who finish each other's thoughts as if all four hands were attached to one unified torso. Highlights include two engaging new Duke compositions, the blistering opener "Battle Royal" and the impulsive "Wild Man" and the closing Basie chestnut "Jumpin' at the Woodside."

Duke Ellington And Count Basie First Time!: Count Meets The Duke Track Listing

1. Battle Royal
2. To You
3. Take the A Train
4. Corner Pocker (aka Until I Met You)
5. Wild Man (aka Moore)
6. Seque in C
7. Jumpin' at the Woodside
8. One More Once
9. Take the A Train
10. Jumpin' at the Woodside
11. B D B
12. Blues in Hoss' Flat
13. Wild Man
14. Battle Royal

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For years Duke Ellington and tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins promised each other that they would one day find a way to collaborate on an album. Finally, in 1962, they recorded at the famed Rudy Van Gelder Studios in New Jersey, with a small personnel from the Ellington band. The event was marked by the combination of the guest tenor's distinctive and expansive tones, the rich ensemble sound, and of course, the extraordinary Ellington compositions. Duke Ellington covered the piano and brought with him Aaron Bell, brass; Lawrence Brown, trombone; Sam Woodyard, drums; and Ray Nance, cornet and violin. What became obvious almost immediately was the interplay of Hawkin's tenor and Harry Carney on alto saxophone and the alto voicing of Johnny Hodges. Highlights include the infectious calypso-like opening of "Limbo Jazz" that moves from solos by Hodges, Ray Nance and Lawrence Brown to a solo by Coleman Hawkins. Ellington's classic "Mood Indigo" is the perfect vehicle for Hawkins with his rich, resonant phrasing. "Wanderlust," which was first recorded in 1938, is revived here with Lawrence Brown and Ray Nance contributing to the blues mood of the piece. Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins features two legendary masters of jazz in a meeting that remains as masterful and thrilling as it did when it first took place in 1962.

Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins Track Listing

1. Limbo Jazz
2. Mood Indigo
3. Ray Charles' Place
4. Wanderlust
5. You Dirty Dog
6. Self Portrait (Of the Bean)
7. The Jeep Is Jumpin'
8. The Ricitic

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Originally released in January of 1960, Giant Steps was John Coltrane's first album devoted entirely to his own compositions and it confirmed his towering command of the tenor saxophone and his emerging power as a composer.

John Coltrane Giant Steps: Deluxe Edition Track Listing

1. Giant Steps
2. Cousin Mary
3. Countdown
4. Spiral
5. Syeeda's Song Flute
6. Naima
7. Mr. P.C.

One of the underrated gems of the 1960s, Salt And Pepper is an exciting matchup of tenors Sonny Stitt and Paul Gonsalves. It is very much a jam session set, with "Salt And Pepper" being a heated medium-tempo blues and the two competitive tenors stretching out on "S'posin'" and a lengthy "Perdido." The most memorable selection from the date is the one on which Stitt switches to alto, "Stardust." His beautiful playing behind Gonsalves' warm melody statement raises the session to the classic level. Also included on this consistently exciting release is a Sonny Stitt quartet set. Although Stitt (doubling on alto and tenor) recorded scores of quartet sessions, he sounds particularly inspired here, especially on such offbeat material as "Estralita," the Dixieland standard "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" and "My Mother's Eyes." Highly recommended to bebop and straight-ahead jazz fans.

Sonny Stitt And Paul Gonsalves Salt And Pepper Track Listing

1. Salt And Pepper
2. S'posin'
3. Theme From Lord Of The Flies
4. Perdido
5. Star Dust
6. Surfin'
7. Lester Leaps In
8. Estralita
9. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
10. Touchy
11. Never....Sh!
12. My Mother's Eyes
13. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You

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Robert Pete Williams is the most avant-garde blues performer ever recorded. No punk rock band has ever matched the jagged, acerbic fury of the riffs Williams played 35 years ago. No rapper has approached his ability to evoke the torment of life in prison or bend language to cast an eerie spell over a chance encounter with a seductive woman. His blues was extremely original, sometimes even hard to understand. No other performer has captured the emotional effect of a desperate situation like he did. He had never been recorded when he was discovered in Angola Penitentiary in Louisiana, convicted of murder. Robert Pete probably has the most unique blues style of all bluesmen. Neither his guitar work nor his singing can be categorized into any established regional style such as East Coast, Mississippi Delta or Texas Blues. His music and lyrics are spontaneous and original. No major influence of other bluesmen can be found in his idiosyncratic, intensely personal performances. Blues scholar Pete Welding described his music as "tough, mean, and, above all, impassioned like the man himself."

Robert Pete Williams With Big Joe Williams Track Listing

1. Doctor Blues
2. Got On His Mind
3. Meet Him Over In Paradise
4. Goodbye Baby
5. It's Gotta Be Jelly 'Cause Jam Don't Shake Thataway
6. Texas Blues
7. Talkin' Blues
8. Greyhound Bus

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Volumes 1 and 2 of Genius of Modern Music are finally available for the first time as one Deluxe Double LP set, featuring the original track listings from the first 12" versions, originally released on Blue Note in 1956. Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1 features Monk's recordings as a bandleader in 1947 while Vol. 2 features his recordings as a bandleader from 1951-1952. Thelonious Monk Genius of Modern Music Track Listing

1. 'Round Midnight
2. Off Minor
3. Ruby My Dear
4. I Mean You
5. April In Paris
6. Thelonious
7. Epistrophy
8. Misterioso
9. Well You Needn't
10. Introspection
11. Humph
12. Carolina Moon
13. Hornin' In
14. Skippy
15. Let's Cool One
16. Suburban Eyes
17. Evonce
18. Straight No Chaser
19. Four In One
20. Nice Work
21. Monk's Mood
22. Who Knows
23. Ask Me Now

180g Import Vinyl Reissue of the Mississippi Delta pianist/singer's 1957 album Back Country Suite. The album draws on Mose Allison's upbringing in Mississippi and it fuses rural blues/jazz with modern classical composition, and wordsmithing that is second to none. Allison has been covered by everyone from the Rolling Stones to Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, The Clash, The Who and Eric Clapton.

Mose Allison Back Country Suite Track Listing

1. New Ground
2. Train
3. Warm Night
4. Blues
5. Saturday
6. Scamper
7. January
8. Promised Land
9. Spring Song
10. Highway
11. Blueberry Hill
12. You Won't Let Me Go
13. I Thought About You
14. One Room Country Shack
15. In Salah

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Originally released in 1957 on the Bethlehem label, this obscure album shows Charles Mingus exploring new territory with his sextet while incorporating vocals into his work. On the opening track, "Scenes In The City," Mel Stewart performs a spoken word piece written by actor and playwright Lonne Elder III and the legendary Langston Hughes. The track is a snapshot of Harlem and NYC in the 1950s and for that alone this album stands out in the Mingus repertoire. Although the rest of the album features no spoken word or poetry, the performances here are top notch.

Charles Mingus A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry Track Listing

1. Scenes in the City
2. Nouroog
3. New York Sketchbook
4. Duke's Choice
5. Slippers

Composer and bass player Charles Mingus recorded East Coasting for Bethlehem in 1957, in between such classics as Tijuana Moods and Mingus Ah Um. In addition to featuring an early version of "Celia" along with some numbers he never recorded again, East Coasting is notable for the presence of pianist Bill Evans, who briefly worked for Mingus before joining Miles Davis for the landmark Kind Of Blue.

Charles Mingus East Coasting Track Listing

1. Memories Of You
2. East Coasting
3. West Coast Ghost
4. Celia
5. Conversation
6. Fifty-First Street Blues

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Although Milt Jackson, John Lewis and Kenny Clarke had been playing together since the mid-'40s as the rhythm section for the legendary Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra, it was not until 1951, with the addition of Percy Heath, that they became the Modern Jazz Quartet. Experimenting with many styles, including bebop and Cool Jazz, they became perhaps best known for their formal presentation (in tuxedo) and choice of venues (concert halls), in a self-professed attempt to make jazz "serious," like classical music. Although their debut LP released in 1952 as a 10" is now a classic in jazz, the music still feels very immediate and features the earliest versions of their best known compositions. This version also features extra tracks from 1952-1954.

Tracklisting:

Side A

Jimmy James
Funky Boss
Pass The Mic
Gratitude
Lighten Up

Side B

Finger Lickin' Good
So What'cha Want
The Biz Vs. The Nuge
Time For Livin'
Something's Got To Give

Side C

The Blue Nun
Stand Together
POW
The Maestro
Groove Holmes

Side D

Live At PJ's
Mark On The Bus
Professor Booty
In 3's
Namaste

Side E

Dub The Mic (Instrumental)
Pass The Mic (Pt. 2, Skills To Pay The Bills)
Drunken Praying Mantis Style
Netty's Girl

Side F

The Skills To Pay The Bills (Original Version)
So What'cha Want (Soul Assasins Remix Version)
So What'cha Want (Butt Naked Version)
Groove Holmes (Live vs. The Biz)

Side G

Stand Together (Live at French's Tavern, Sydney Australia)
Finger Lickin' Good (Governmant Cheese Remix)
Gratitude (Live at Budikan 9/16/92)
Honky Rink

Side H

Jimmy James (Original Original Version)
Boomin' Granny
Drinkin' Wine
So What'cha Want (All The Way Live Freestyle Version)

Track Listing

Side One

1. Them Changes
2. Drown In My Own Tears
3. Oh Happy Day

Side Two

1. Do Whatever Sets You Free
2. Something
3. See The End From The Beginning, Look Afar
4. The Unsilent Minority

Track Listing:

1. Soul Drums
2. Bee 'N' Tee
3. Caravan
4. Soul Bossa Nove
5. Jimmy's Back
6. Funky Donkey
7. Bills Grove
8. On The Outskirts Of Minitown
9. Testifyin'
10. Modern Jive
11. Blow Your Lid(But Watch Your Cool)

With Dannie Richmond on drums and Hampton Hawes on piano (Sonny Clark plays only on "I Can't Get Started") these 1957 NYC recordings represent Charles Mingus' trio lineup at its absolute best. Don't forget this is the year when East Coasting, Tijuana Moon and A Modern Jazz Symposium were released, proving 1957 to be an incredibly inspiring year for the man who reinvented double bass as a front line instrument. Remarkable in the trio formation are Mingus' powerful solos and hectic dialogues with Richmond's drumming.

Track Listing:

1. Yesterday's
2. Back Home Blues
3. I Can't Get Started
4. Hamp's New Blues
5. Summertime
6. Dizzy Moods
7. Laura

After playing cool jazz for a few years, Miles Davis recorded an album called Walkin’ and “hard bop” was born. The year was 1954. Hard bop was still slower than bebop, but more driving than cool jazz. Where cool jazz is sometimes referred to as ‘chamber jazz’, hard bop brought in elements of R&B and gospel. The Walkin’ album is now considered to be one of Davis’ most important albums, with his all-star rhythm section playing behind him, Horace Silver on piano, and the one-two punch of Kenny Clarke on drums and Percy Heath on bass delivering the goods, as they always did. Heath and Clarke went on to do another important session that year with Davis, but in addition to Horace Silver on piano there was another genius of the ivories, Thelonious Monk. This, of course, was the infamous Christmas Eve session, which eventually became two albums, Bags’ Groove (based on Milt Jackson’s theme), and Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants. These two albums are important because they are one of the few instances of Davis and Monk playing together. 1954 was also a significant year because it was Davis’ last year in relative obscurity, the following year he played, “Well You Needn’t” at the Newport Jazz Festival and the rest is history. All this happened in 1954.

The double 180g album Miles 1954 collects Davis' seminal releases from that prolific year into one package, combining all the tracks from the landmark albums Walkin', Bag's Groove and Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants.

Track Listing:

1. Walkin'
2. Blue n' Boogie
3. Solar
4. You Don't Know What Love Is
5. Love Me Or Leave Me
6. Bag's Groove
7. Airegin
8. Oleo
9. But Not For Me
10. Doxy
11. The Man I Love
12. Swing Spring
13. 'Round Midnight
14. Bemsha Swing

Although Milt Jackson, John Lewis and Kenny Clarke had been playing together since the mid-'40s as the rhythm section for the legendary Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra, it was not until 1951, with the addition of Percy Heath, that they became the Modern Jazz Quartet. Although they were very popular, experimenting with many styles, including bebop and Cool Jazz, they became perhaps best known for their formal presentation (in tuxedo) and choice of venues (concert halls), in a self-professed attempt to make jazz serious, like classical music. This collection of recordings from 1954-55 completes the enhanced version of their first 10" and offers an exemplary overview of the combo's beginnings.

Track Listing:

1. La Ronde Suite
2. One Bass Hit
3. Ralph’s New Blues
4. All Of You Side 5
5. I’ll Remember April
6. Gershwin Medley/Soon/For You, For Me/Forevermore/Love Walked In/Our Love Is Here To Stay
7. Concorde
8. Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise

Thelonious Monk brought Jazz piano to new heights, both for composition and interpretation. Doxy's plan to bring back the magnificent art of this strong music personality is now enriched with Monk's incredible tribute to one of the maestros of modern music, Duke Ellington. Faithfully reissued on 180g virgin vinyl, this 1955 album originally released on Riverside is back in black for all who want to experience the beauty of music on the grooves that it was made for.

Track Listing:

1. It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
2. Sophisticated Lady
3. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
4. Black And Tan Fantasy
5. Mood Indigo
6. I Let A Song Got Out Of My Heart
7. Solitude
8. Caravan

Track Listing:

1. Nuttin' Out Jones
2. Oriental Flower
3. Half and Half
4. Aborigine Dance in Scotland
5. Gettin' on Way
6. Just Us Blues

John Coltrane's 1964 release, Crescent brilliantly represents the musical values 'Trane' was reaching for at a very crucial time in the tenor legend's career. The album not only re-emphasizes Coltrane's expressive power as a composer, it further underlines the fact that his lyricism is as direct and as free of posturing as any in jazz history. In excellent support here are Jimmy Garrison on double bass, Elvin Jones on drums and McCoy Tyner on piano. Mastered by Bernie Grundman from the Original Analog Master Tapes and pressed on double 180g 45RPM vinyl. Only 1000 Numbered Limited Edition Copies! John Coltrane Crescent Track Listing

1. Crescent
2. Wise One
3. Bessie's Blues
4. Lonnie's Lament
5. The Drum Thing

Ballad singer Johnny Hartman's third and final Impulse session has several near-classic performances including "My Ship," "Waltz for Debby" and "It Never Entered My Mind," along with several songs from movies or shows such as "Sunrise, Sunset." Hartman is in fine form throughout here whether backed by the Hank Jones quartet or accompanied by an octet arranged by pianist Bob Hammer.

Johnny Hartman The Voice That Is Track Listing

1. My Ship
2. More I See You, The
3. These Foolish Things
4. Waltz For Debbie
5. It Never Entered My Mind
6. The Day the World Stopped Turning, The
7. A Slow Hot Wind
8. Funny World
9. Joey, Joey, Joey
10. Let Me Love You
11. Sunrise, Sunset

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Track Listing:

Side One

Keep Your Heart Right
The Lady Sings The Blues
Sylvia
The Wedding

Side Two

Wherever June Bugs Go
In A Sentimental Mood

Anne Bisson and Simaudio join forces with legendary producer, conductor, and arranger Guy St-Onge, along with René Laflamme of Fidelio Audio, bassist Normand Guilbault, and drummer Paul Brochu, to deliver a masterpiece of exceptional music that is sure to take your breath away. This fantastic audiophile recording features a rich and warm mid-range, with sultry tones that envelop and embrace. The first time you hear Bisson's crystal clear voice, you'll likely get shivers, while subsequent listens will reveal a depth and emotional core that resonate long after the final chord has sounded. Melodies soar with a delicate confidence through changes that are a unique blend of jazz and vocal pop.

Blue Mind was recorded on July 21-22, 2008, at Reference Studio in St-Calixte, Québec. It was mastered by Marc-Olivier Bouchard, assisted by René Laflamme, at Pure Mastering in St-Calixte. There are no overdubs on any song except "Dragonfly." With the exception of "Hoping Love Will Last" (Steve Hackett), all songs were written by Anne Bisson.

Mastered by Kevin Gray & Pressed at RTI on 180g Vinyl!

Track Listing:

1. Little Black Lake
2. Soothing Your Soul
3. Hoping Love Will Last
4. Dragonfly
5. Do What You Please
6. September In Montreal
7. Camillo
8. Blue Mind
9. Why Is It So

A charming little beauty, Starry Starry Night is a collection of cover versions of mainly familiar material by drummer Paul Clarvis and pianist Liam Noble, two characterful lights of the British jazz scene. The tunes range from classic standards like Duke Ellington's "Mood Indigo," the Gershwins' "Embraceable You" and Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag," through to more recent treasures like Gillian Welch's "Dear Someone," Don Maclean's "Vincent (Starry Starry Night)" and Moondog's "Paris." The album is as intimate and seductive as the source material and instrumentation promise, Clarvis and Noble are respectful of the composers' original intentions, rarely straying far from the top-lines or basic changes, but the duo bring fresh fascination to even the most well-worn item. Clarvis and Noble met, propitiously, when they both worked in the band put together to accompany composer and multi-instrumentalist Moondog at a London concert in the 1990s. They've since performed and recorded together frequently, and followed singular paths of their own. Clarvis leads the quirky world jazz and folk band Orquestra Mahatma, and has become an in-demand session drummer. A master technician who wears his virtuosity lightly, Clarvis is an unusually melodic drummer. Among his several involvements, Noble, who is equally at home in the lyric songbook tradition and the most uncharted free-improv, performs and records with folkish jazz singer/songwriter Christine Tobin and with saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock. His playing on Starry Starry Night is rhapsodic and vivacious. Given the nature of the material, it might be expected that much of the interest on the album would derive from Noble's performances. But Clarvis, heard throughout on brushes, holds his own. He transposes the melody and rhythmic emphases of "Embraceable You" to the drum kit to create one of the highlights of the album. Others are Welch's "Dear Someone," an exquisite "last waltz" with a suggestion of menace in the wings; Ellington's "Mood Indigo," which Noble succeeds in making both spectral and lush; and Moondog's infectiously joyous "Paris." But these are highlights amongst highlights, and Starry Starry Night is a seamless stream of pleasure.

Track Listing:

1. Mood Indigo
2. Shadow Of Your Smile
3. Dear Someone
4. Maple Leaf Rag
5. Vincent
6. Poor Butterfly
7. Whispering
8. So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
9. Embraceable You
10. Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
11. Paris

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Track Listing:

1. East Broadway Run Down
2. Blessing In Disguise
3. We Kiss In A Shadow

Track Listing:

1. A Portrait of Robert Thompson: A. Prelude to a Kiss/B. The Break Strain-King Cotton/C. Dem Basses
2. Mama Too Tight
3. Theme for Ernie
4. Basheer

Track Listing:

1. Like Someone in Love
2. I Love You
3. Trane's Slo Blues
4. Lush Life
5. I Hear a Rhapsody

Duke Ellington & John Coltrane is a must have historical document that captures the only meeting between the greatest figure in all of jazz history and one of the most significant revolutionary figures of the 1960s. Ellington sets the mood and both soloists complement each other brilliantly throughout. The legendary session is both warm and exciting and offers up plenty of surprises for fans of both Ellington and Coltrane.

Duke Ellington & John Coltrane Track Listing

1. In a Sentimental Mood
2. Take the Coltrane
3. Big Nick
4. Stevie
5. My Little Brown Book
6. Angelica
7. The Feeling of Jazz

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The Groundhogs, lead by British guitar hero Tony McPhee, worshipped in the church of American blues and R&B. Devotees of John Lee Hooker, the band name comes from one of Hookers songs, but they proved their chops in the mid sixties when Hooker selected them to back him on his British tours. However, while the Groundhogs played a derivative sound, they were a solid band in their own right, with an especially electrifying live presence, as proven in their Hoggin’ the Stage release. Originally released in 1984, this album is a collection of live recordings from 1971, in London and Leeds, during a Stones tour, where Mick Jagger personally requested the Groundhogs to perform, and a gig in Stockholm in 1976 shortly before they disbanded. If you missed them live during these years, here is your chance to bask in their glory.

Track Listing:

1. Cherry Red
2. Garden
3. Split, Pt. 1
4. Groundhog Blues
5. Eccentric Man
6. Split, Pt. 2
7. Mistreated
8. Still a Fool
9. Boogie With Us
10. Your Love Keeps Me Alive

In a career that spans nearly four decades and includes gigs with Return to Forever, Rite of Strings and a variety of other solo and collaborative projects along the way, bassist Stanley Clarke, one of the most prominent voices in electric jazz and fusion, had seemingly covered every possible corner of the jazz landscape. But there was one avenue he had yet to explore. “I had never done an acoustic bass record, ever,” he says. “There’s a long list of people on whose records I’ve played acoustic bass, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz, Joe Henderson and many others, but I’d never done an acoustic jazz trio record of my own. So I wanted to record one that would just feature the piano and the acoustic bass in a way that you could really hear the bass.”

This long-overdue dream project becomes a reality with Jazz In The Garden. For his first straight-a-head acoustic jazz trio recording, Clarke assembles two brilliant collaborators at the top of their respective games: pianist Hiromi Uehara and drummer Lenny White. Each represents a distinctly different generational and cultural perspective, but given the range and versatility of both, the net effect is superb. Indeed, the synergy resulting from all three of these luminaries makes for one of the most refreshing Stanley Clarke recordings in recent years.

Track Listing:

1. Paradigm Shift (Election Day 2008)
2. Sakura Sakura
3. Sicilian Blue
4. Take The Coltrane
5. 3 Wrong Notes
6. Someday My Prince Will Come
7. Isotope
8. Bass Folk Song No. 5 & 6
9. Global Tweak
10. Solar
11. Brain Training
12. Under The Bridge

Desafinado was Coleman Hawkins' excellent addition to the Bossa Nova craze of the early 1960s. The tenor-great recorded eight Bossa Nova and Jazz Samba tunes here with bass, two guitars, and three percussionists including a classic version of "O Pato" and a strong bossa reinterpretation of "I'm Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover" among others. Mastered by Bernie Grundman from the Original Analog Master Tapes and pressed on double 180g 45RPM vinyl. Only 1000 Numbered Limited Edition Copies!

Track Listing:

1. Desafinado
2. I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Closer (Jazz Samba)
3. Samba Para Bean
4. I Remember You
5. One Note Samba (Samba de Uma Nota So)
6. O Pato (The Duck)
7. Un Abraco No Bonfa (An Embrace to Bonfa)
8. Stumpy Bossa Nova

Track Listing:

1. I Love Your Lovin' Ways
2. Four Woman
3. Lilac Wine
4. Break Down And Let It All Out
5. Why Keep Breaking My Heart
6. Wild Is The Wind
7. Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair
8. If I Should Lose You
9. Either Way I Lose

Moondog’s debut release, originally on the Prestige label, came out in 1956, long after he’d become a legendary New York City street performer. The blind Kansas native showcases his talent for the minimal and avant-garde here, with compositions driven by percussion and Japanese-inspired melodies, complimented by street sounds, recitations, and animal noises. Bizarre even for today’s standards, it’s a wonder this was released over a half-century ago. A brilliant debut.

Track Listing:

1. Caribea
2. Lullaby
3. Tree trail
4. Death, when you come to me
5. Big cat
6. Frog bog
7. To a sea horse
8. Dance rehearsal
9. Surf session
10. Trees against the sky
11. Tap dance
12. Oo debut
13. Drum suite
14. Street scene

This is the second Moondog LP, originally released on Prestige in 1956. It continues the NYC street performer’s exploration of minimalist composition and field recording, mixing percussion and sparse melodies with piano solos, street sounds, and monologues. Surprisingly accessible despite it’s avant-garde nature, bridging the gap between the familiar and the bizarre. Another all out masterwork from one of 20th century America’s most unique minds.

Track Listing:

1. A Duet - Queen Elizabeth Whistle And Bamboo Pipe
2. Conversation And Music At 51st Street And 6th Avenue
3. Hardshoe Ray Malone
4. Tugboat Toccata
5. Autumn
6. Seven Beat Suite
7. Oo Solo
8. Rehersal of Violetta’s Barefoot Dance
9. Oo Solo
10. Ostrich Feathers Played On Drum
11. Oboe Round
12. Chant
13. All Is Loneliness
14. Sextett (Oo)
15. Fiesta Piano Solo
16. Mooondog Monologue

Naim Label stalwart, and virtuoso acoustic guitarist Antonio Forcione introduces his highly successful Ghetto Paradise on 180g virgin vinyl. Originally released in 1999, Ghetto Paradise was Forcione’s third studio album to be released on the Naim Label. The album has enjoyed the same rigorous quality control of an Abbey Road remaster for the vinyl edition (by Steve Rooke) which has been pressed at the legendary Portalspace Records in the UK.

Ghetto Paradise features the rhythmic midas touch of legendary world jazz percussionist Trilok Gurtu (who has worked with everybody from John McLaughlin to Neneh Cherry), Liberian/German fretless bass extraordinaire Kai Eckhardt (also of John McLaughlin Trio and well known for his work in the 1990s with Billy Cobham) and additional musical textures from saxophonists Roberto Manzin and Ed Jones, bassist Davide Mantovani and percussionist Bosco de Oliveira. Both visually and sonically, Ghetto Paradise was highly inspired by the sight and sounds of Antonio’s upbringing in the Italian hilltop town of Montecilfone and the importance of family oriented life; even the cover photograph is the work of Forcione’s late father, Michele Forcione. Recorded by Peter Williams at September Sounds, London and originally mastered by Julian Vereker.

“Ghetto Paradise is a sophisticated mixture of Antonio’s unique style, and an amazing world class rhythm section. All ten tracks on the album have been written and arranged by Antonio, a glowing testimony to his abilities as a composer and to the fact that Antonio’s already considerable talent is just getting better and better! This album is a true high-point for Antonio’s original and popular guitar playing.” - Notes from Original Press Release

Track Listing:

1. Alhambra
2. Maurizio’s Party
3. Night Passage
4. Horserun
5. Indian Café
6. Sereno
7. Salsa & Basilico
8. If…

Track Listing:

1. Attica Blues
2. Invocation: Attica Blues
3. Steam (Part 1)
4. Invocation To Mr. Parker
5. Steam (Part 2)
6. Blues For Brother George Jackson
7. Invocation: Ballad For A Child
8. Ballad For A Child
9. Good Bye Sweet Pops
10. Quiet Dawn

Track Listing:

Side One

1. Spirtual Eternal
2. Wisdom Eye
3. Los Caballos

Side Two

1. Om Supreme
2. Morning Worship
3. Spring Rounds

The original soundtrack from the film 'Blow-up' features the work of both Herbie Hancock (with Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Ron Carter and Jack DeJohnette) and the Yardbirds (with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page) to produce a soundtrack full of proto-funk and features the classic 'Bring Down the Birds'.

1. Main Title
2. Verushka Pt.1
3. Verushka Pt.2
4. The naked camera
5. Bring down the birds
6. Jane's theme
7. Stroll on (The Yardbirds)
8. The thief
9. The kiss
10. Curiosity
11. Thomas studies photos
12. The bed
13. End title 'Blow Up'