This important edition contains all of the recordings by the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring Jimmy Giuffre as the guest artist, recorded on August 1956 and 1957 at the Music Inn. As bonus tracks this CD concludes -due to a lack of space with three MJQ only interpretations. Disconforme. 2005.
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Featuring the soul-searching sounds of Ron Carter, Wallace Roney, Houston Person and many more create an ambience of sensuality regardless of the weather. Digipak/2 CD set. Savoy Jazz. 2003.
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The latest in today's bestselling midprice line captures 20 of the greatest pianists in modern jazz at their mellow best.
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Like its predecessor, this 1981 recording is as true as possible to the spirit, and even the letter, of the music that found form in New Orleans in the first decades of this century, music that had changed rapidly in the move to Chicago in the 1920s. The band brings a relaxed flow to the music whether it's a religious tune or a raucous rag, a feeling encouraged by the extended times permitted by later recording. The style is classic polyphony, with Frank Demond's trombone and Willie Humphrey's clarinet developing elaborate patterns around Percy Humphrey's stately and burnished trumpet leads; the music is propelled along by the rhythm section, including Josiah Frazier on drums and James Miller on piano. Willie Humphrey's speechlike clarinet playing stands out, especially on his solo on "Shake It and Break It." --Stuart Broomer
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Never before released, by the Jim Cullum Happy Jazz Band, the foremost traditional band in the land! Featured here is the music of three jazz giants, cornet player Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke, the incomparable Louis Armstrong and one of the founding fathers of the jazz genre Jelly Roll Morton. This essential Classic Jazz release contains 3 CDs of some of the musicians' finest tunes, including Beiderbecke's "Copenhagen" and "Davenport Blues," Armstrong's "Potato Head Blues" and "Mabel's Dream" and Jelly Roll's "Black Bottom Stomp" and "The Chant."
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Incredible 500 CD box (yes, five hundred CDs!) that contains five separate 100 CD boxes that spotlight the different periods of Jazz Music (Big Band, Bop, Modern Jazz, Classic Jazz and Swing). This set encompassing an entire Who's Who of 20th century Jazz history: the essence of four decades of jazz, exclusively and compactly compiled especially for you. Doc. 2008.
$776.49
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This is a real sleeper of an album, literally. Smooth-jazz musicians--including Peter White, Dave Koz, Norman Brown, David Benoit, and others--play music here to put babies to sleep. Fans of New Age music, specifically what came out of the Pacific Northwest in the '80s, may find many of these 14 tracks reminiscent of that period. Long-time listeners of smooth-jazz radio may be reminded of the kind of ethereal, spacey music that was played in the early days of the format. Many of the songs are as obvious as Brian Culbertson's somnambulating "Brahms' Lullaby" and Koz's "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star," but some are inspired choices with creative arrangements and strong performances. Koz and his brother Jeff shine on the Beatles' title tune and the other Lennon/McCartney chestnut, "Blackbird." Brown's take on James Taylor's "You Can Close Your Eyes" is also moving, while not straying from the stillness of the concept. Perhaps the standout track is the superb performance of vocalist John Stoddart on Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely." --Mark Ruffin
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