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Shelly Manne & His Men
At The Black Hawk - Volume 1 [ Original Jazz Classics / CD - released 3/May/2010 ] Recorded September 1959 at the Blackhawk, San Francisco |
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Allan Vaché
With Benny In Mind [ Arbors / CD - released 28/Jul/2009 ] For this album Allan has gathered a talented group of jazz artists, all of whom show an understanding of the Goodman legacy and contribute performances that are in every respect worthy. |
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Allan Vaché & Harry Allen
Alan Vache and Harry Allen [ Nagel Heyer / CD - released 29/Jan/2001 ] Alan Vache is an American clarinetist, born 16 December 1953 in Rahway, New Jersey, USA. He is the younger brother of jazz cornetist Warren Vaché, with whom he frequently collaborates. |
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Allan Vaché & Jim Galloway
Raisin' The Roof - Allan Vache meets Jim Galloway [ Nagel Heyer / CD - released 29/Jan/2001 ] Recorded on December 17 & 18, 1998 at Nola Recording Studios, NYC. |
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Alex Welsh Legacy Band
The Sound Of Alex Vol.1 [ Nagel Heyer / CD - released 18/Feb/2002 ] Recorded live at the Marriott Hotel, Hamburg, on July 31, 1999 as part of the 1999 IAJRC Convention |
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Allan Vaché, Antti Sarpila, Ken Peplowski, with Mark Shane, Len Skeat, Joe Ascione
Summit Meeting [ Nagel Heyer / CD - released 29/Jan/2001 ] Recorded on October 6, 1995 at Blue Noise Studio, Hamburg, Germany. |
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The Allan Vache Sextet
Swing And Other Things [ Arbors / CD - released 27/Jul/2009 ] For lovers of the clarinet a new record by Allan Vache is a jazz event. Allan is a unique player. He is absolutely fearless as an improvisor. He is one of the very few clarinetists who can play to the top of the range-high "C? and even a "D?-without... |
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Allan Vaché Big Four
Revisited! [ Nagel Heyer / CD - released 29/Jan/2001 ] "No. 2 Jazz Record of the Year 1998" Jazz Journal International |
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Allan Vaché & Warren Vache
Mrs. Vaché 's Boys [ Nagel Heyer / CD - released 29/Jan/1999 ] Recorded on February 19 & 20, 1998 at Parc Studios, Orlando, Florida |
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Allan Vache's Florida Jazz Allstars, featuring Johnny varro and Bob Haggart
Allan Vache's Florida Jazz Allstars [ Nagel Heyer / CD - released 2/Feb/1997 ] Recorded March 27 & 28, 1996 at Parc Studios, Orlando, Florida |
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Art Pepper (alto sax), with Jack Sheldon (trumpet), Russ Freeman, Gerald Wiggins (piano), Leroy Vinnegar, Ben Tucker (bass), Shelly Manne (drums), etc
The Return of Art Pepper - The complete Art Pepper Aladdin recordings - Volume One [ Blue Note / CD - released 2/Dec/2022 ] "Pepper sounds surprisingly good for having been away from recording nearly two years. At this point, he retained the cool and dry tone which would later give way to the torrential playing of his final comeback. The music is vintage West Coast cool,... |
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Ben Webster
Ben Webster [ Centurion Jazz / CD - released 21/Feb/2004 ] "So effective was he with his fists that they called him "The Brute". Then you heard him play, and his opulent, breathy tenor saxophone sang of tenderness, loneliness and romance." John Shand 2020 |
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Benny Goodman, with Harry James, Count Basie, Teddy Wilson, Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton & others
Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall 1938 Complete [ Columbia / Legacy / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/1999 ] Benny Goodman's January 16, 1938, Carnegie Hall concert is considered the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's "coming out" party to the world of "respectable" music, held right in that throne room of musical... |
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Bill Coleman
From Boogie To Funk [ Gitanes / CD - released 20/Oct/2000 ] Recorded January 21 and 22, 1960 in Paris |
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The Bill Perkins Octet (featuring Bud Shank, alto saxophone, and Bill Perkins (tenor Saxophone)
On Stage: The Bill Perkins Octet [ Pacific Jazz / CD - released 4/Oct/1999 ] Recorded at the Music Box Theatre in Los Angeles on February 9 (1-4, 9) and February 16 (5-8), 1956. |
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Bob Wilber (clarinet) and the Tuxedo Big.Band
Benny Goodman Arrangements Volume Two - More Never Recorded [ Arbors / CD - released 28/Jul/2009 ] Bob Wilber and the Tuxedo Big Band from Toulouse, France under the direction of Paul Cheron |
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Buck Clayton
Fiesta in Blue [ Past Perfect / CD - released 15/Sep/2001 ] Buck Clayton is most famous today for his association with Count Basie but that is only a small part of his musical legacy, a seven-year period in a career that lasted nearly six decades. A very good swing trumpeter and a skilled arranger-composer,... |
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Buck Clayton Swing Band
Buck Clayton Live from Greenwich Village, NYC [ Nagel Heyer / CD - released 15/Apr/2002 ] Recorded live on February 16 - 18, 1990 at the Village Vanguard, New York. |
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Bud Shank, Bill Perkins, with Hampton Hawes, Red Mitchell & Mel Lewis
Bud Shank / Bill Perkins [ Pacific Jazz / CD - released 4/Oct/1999 ] "Taken as a whole, there are many rewarding solos to be heard by Shank, Perkins, and the piano players on these formerly rare selections, even if the collection falls short of being classic." AllMusic.com |
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Bud Shank & Bob Cooper
Blowin' Country [ Pacific Jazz / CD - released 18/Oct/2010 ] Recorded in Los Angeles on January 21, 1958 and/or February 18/19, 1958 (#1-11) and November 29, 1956 (#12-15) |
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Buddy Rich (drums)
Buddy Rich [ Verve Compact Jazz / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] Featuring Joe Mondragon, Stanley Turrentine, Max Roach, Phil Woods, John Bunch, Dave McKenna & Johnny Morris |
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Cat Anderson & the Ellington All-Stars
Cat Anderson & the Ellington All-Stars [ Discs Swing / CD - released 2/Feb/1986 ] Recorded In Paris 1958 & 1964 |
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Claude Hopkins (piano) Budd Johnson, Buddy Tate (saxophone), Buddy Tate (clarinet), Wendell Marshall (bass), Ferdinand Everett (drums)
Claude Hopkins - Swing Time [ Prestige / CD - released 7/Jan/1999 ] Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ; May 22, 1963 (#1-7) and February 21, 1961 (#8-14) |
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Clifford Brown
The Complete Blue Note Studio Masters [ Blue Note / CD - released 4/Jul/2003 ] "The most significant recordings from his tragically brief career" Five Stars All Music Guide |
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Coleman Hawkins, with Chalie Savers (trumpet) Tiny Grimes (guitar), Ray Bryant (piano), etc
Hawk Eyes [ Original Jazz Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/1987 ] "Tenor-great Coleman Hawkins tended to be at his best when challenged by another horn player. On this highly enjoyable title, Hawkins is joined by the superb trumpeter Charlie Shavers and a strong rhythm section. |
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Conte Candoli
Conte Candoli Live [ Nagel Heyer / CD - released 14/Oct/2002 ] Recorded live at Birdland, Neuburg on May 26, 2000. Mixed at Blue Noise Studio, Hamburg July 3-5, 2002 |
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Dan Barrett (trombone, vocal), with Tom Baker, Scott Robinson, Chris Hopkins, Eddie Erickson, Joel Forbes & Jeff Hamilton
Dan Barrett's International Swing party [ Nagel Heyer / CD - released 19/Mar/2001 ] "All in all, a fine representation of the Swing Party's fantastic Hamburg club set." Jazz Podium |
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Dick Cary's Tuesday Night friends
Got Swing? [ Arbors / CD - released 28/Jul/2009 ] A rousing 19 number compilation of Cary originals and arrangements that is a true celebration of his unique musical personality, humour and, of course, genius, as performed by an all-star big band of his Tuesday Night Friends. |
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Dick Hyman & Tom Pletcher
If Bix Played Gershwin [ Arbors / CD - released 28/Jul/2009 ] "If Bix Played Gershwin is governed by the simple idea of arranging 18 Gershwin tunes in the classic jazz style utilized by cornetist Bix Beiderbecke. Pianist Hyman and cornetist Pletcher are joined by a fairly large ensemble" AllMusic |
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Diz Disley
Diz Disley & His String Quintet [ Lake / CD - released 14/Nov/2011 ] 1950s recordings of Gipsy Jazz from one of the Jazz and Folk world's great characters and most accomplished guitarists. Today there is a proliferation of groups performing the Gipsy Jazz purveyed by the legendary Django Reinhardt, but in the 1950s... |
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Dizzy Gillespie, with Sonnny Stitt, Ray Bryant, James Moody, Lee Morgan, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker & others
Dizzy Gillespie - Jazz Masters 10 [ Verve / CD - released 10/Oct/1994 ] "the collection opens with the famous "Manteca" performed by Gillespie's big band at the Newport Jazz Festival. This single seven-minute performance will tell you everything you need to know about Dizzy Gillespie." (arwulf arwulf) |
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Dizzy Gillespie, with Sonny Stitt, and Sonny Rollins
Dizzy Gillespie - Duets [ Verve / CD - released 10/Oct/1988 ] Recorded at Nola Studios, New York, New York on December 11, 1957. |
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Dizzy Gillespieand his Orchestra
A Portrait of Duke Ellington [ Verve / CD - released 17/Jan/1984 ] "And on A Portrait of Duke Ellington, that depth and skill, stimulated by a change in the stale Gillespie repertoire and complemented by rich, radically imaginative arrangements by Clare Fischer, result in a really classic album." Washington. Post |
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Donnie O'brien (drums)
Donnie O'brien Meets Manhatten Swing: In a Basie Mood. [ Arbors / CD - released 28/Jul/2009 ] Donnie O'Brien, a talented drummer who has worked regularly in the New York area since the early 1970s, makes his recording debut on this meeting with Bucky Pizzarelli, John Bunch and Jay Leonhart, together with saxophone great, Carmen... |
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Duke Ellington
Ellington At Newport [ CBS / Sony Jazz / CD - released 4/Nov/1996 ] Recorded in performance at the American Jazz Festival at Newport, Rhode Island on July 7, 1956 |
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Duke Ellington & Coleman Hawkins, with Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Ray Nance, Lawrence Brown & others
Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins [ MCA Imulse! / CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] "one of the great Ellington albums, one of the great Hawkins albums and one of the great albums of the 1960s." The New York Times |
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Eartha Kitt
My Greatest Songs [ RCA / CD - released 21/Mar/1992 ] Eartha Kitt's greatest hits are defined by her sultry voice and unique delivery, with iconic songs like "Santa Baby," "C'est Si Bon," "I Want to Be Evil," "Just an Old Fashioned Girl," and "My Heart Belongs to Daddy," Also includes songs in French,... |
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Flip Phillips
Flip Phillips Celebrates His 80th Birthday at the March of Jazz 1995 [ Arbors / CD - released 28/Jul/2009 ] "Veteran tenor saxophonist Flip Phillips' 80th birthday was celebrated at a three-day jazz party held in March 1995 by the Arbors label. There were 33 musicians at the event." AllMusic |
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George Masso (trombone, arrangements)
George Masso: That Old Gang of Mine [ Arbors Records / CD - released 27/Jul/1997 ] George Masso fulfills a long-held dream by bringing together "that old gang" of his for a spirited session of swinging music. He is a master at blending the resonance of jazz tradition with a healthy dose of individuality and is a song player of the... |
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George Wettling's Stuyvesant Stompers, with Jimmy McPartland, Pee Wee Russell, Bud Freeman & Joe Sullivan
George Wettling's Stuyvesant Stompers [ Storyville Dr. Jazz Vol 15 / CD - released 2/Apr/2001 ] Wettling was one of the young white Chicagoans who fell in love with jazz as a result of hearing King Oliver's band at the Lincoln Gardens in Chicago in the early 1920s. The drummer, Baby Dodds made a particular and lasting impression upon George. |