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Keith Jarrett
Solo Concerts Bremen / Lausanne (LP) [ ECM Luminessence Series) / 3 LP - released 27/Oct/2023 ] Recorded March & July 1973 |
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Keith Jarrett
Still Live (LP) [ ECM Records / 2 LP - released 18/Oct/2010 ] |
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Keith Jarrett
The Survivors' Suite (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 7/Apr/2017 ] One of the best recordings for Keith Jarrett's mid-'70s American quartet (whose style differed sharply from its European doppelgänger), The Survivors' Suite opens with Jarrett's aching, breathy sigh on the bass recorder, evoking the sound of a horn... |
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Keith Jarrett (piano) / Charlie Haden (double bass)
Last Dance (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 2/Oct/2014 ] Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden broaden the scope of their duo project to showcase jazz classics like Thelonious Monk's "Round Midnight" and Bud Powell's spritely "Dance Of The Infidels". Love songs, however, are to the fore in this selection, with... |
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Kenny Barron, Charlie Haden
Night And The City (LP) [ Decca / 2 LP - released 23/Jun/2023 ] Night and the City was the third in a series of Charlie Haden duet projects for Verve in the 1990s, recorded live at New York City's Iridium Jazz Club in 1996. Since the mid-1970s, after the great collective and utopian struggles, Charlie Haden... |
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Kenny Burrell
Kenny Burrell (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 7/Oct/2022 ] The first thing that strikes you about Kenny Burrell's second Blue Note album, simply titled Kenny Burrell (BLP 1543) and released as part of Blue Note's fabled 1500 series, is the cover, which features an illustration by Andy Warhol, the first of... |
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Kenny Burrell
Midnight Blue (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 13/Sep/2019 ] |
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Kenny Wheeler
Angel Song (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 31/May/2024 ] LP from the "Luminessence" Series. "Destined to go down in history as a jazz classic" was the verdict with which The Guardian greeted this album on its release in 1997, saying, "Wheeler's compositions and four of the world's greatest improvisers... |
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Kenny Wheeler (with Keith Jarrett, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette)
Gnu High (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 28/Apr/2023 ] "Gnu High" was trumpeter/flugelhornist Kenny Wheeler's first for ECM, and Keith Jarrett's last session as a sideman: both deliver astonishing improvisations in a highly interactive quartet with Holland and DeJohnette, and Wheeler's writing is... |
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King Curtis
Live At Fillmore West (Gatefold LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 24/Jul/2014 ] Live At Fillmore West is the ultimate King Curtis live album, a brilliant confirmation of the saxophonist's place in popular music. This is the stuff of Soul legends that belongs in any record collection. The album showcases three concerts he... |
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Kit Downes
Dream Life Of Debris [ ECM / LP - released 25/Oct/2019 ] Dreamlife of Debris carries forward the story begun on Kit Downes's Obsidian, extending and developing its processes and core ideas. But where Obsidian was (almost exclusively) a solo church organ album, part of Kit's plan for Dreamlife was to put... |
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Kit Downes, Peter Eldh, James Maddren
Vermillion (LP) [ ECM Records / LP - released 11/Feb/2022 ] Kit Downes joins forces with long-time collaborators Petter Eldh on bass and James Maddren on drums for a carefully assorted piano trio programme that treads gentle lyricism and bold creative outbursts in equal measures. Downes, whose prior ECM... |
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Kornstad Trio
Im Treibhaus (LP) [ Grappa / LP - released 1/Nov/2019 ] What started as a young Norwegian jazz rebel's sudden passion for the music of the classical canon, has now developed into a musical species of its own. Håkon Kornstad has astonished and touched a steadily growing audience around the world with his... |
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Lee Morgan
Caramba (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 18/Feb/2022 ] When Lee Morgan recorded his album Caramba, he was only months away from his 30th birthday, making the fact that this was his 23rd Blue Note recording even more astounding. A full-fledged master, his technical prowess on the horn matched by the... |
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Lee Morgan
The Procrastinator (Blue Note Classic LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 15/Aug/2025 ] Lee Morgan's prodigious creative output in the years following the smash success of his comeback album The Sidewinder was staggering by any measure, whether quality or quantity. In fact, the trumpeter recorded 15 Blue Note sessions between 1964-68,... |
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Lee Morgan
The Rumproller (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 20/Jan/2023 ] After trumpeter Lee Morgan set the music world on fire with the runaway success of his hit soul-jazz single "The Sidewinder" in 1964, many artists tried to duplicate his triumphant feat in search of another boogaloo sensation. Even Morgan himself... |
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Lee Morgan
Search For The New Land (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/Feb/2024 ] Two months after recording what would become his hit record The Sidewinder, trumpeter Lee Morgan returned to Van Gelder Studio in February 1964 to create his masterful album Search for the New Land. For the session Morgan assembled a sextet... |
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Leon Spencer
Where I'm Coming From (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 11/Aug/2023 ] The very definition of '70s soulful jazz, Where I'm Coming From has all the hallmarks of Prestige Records at its finest, with an all-star cast of sidemen (The legendary Idris Muhammad! Hello to Madlib's uncle, Jon Faddis! Greetings to the funky flute... |
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The Leroy Vinnegar Sextet
Leroy Walks! (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 16/Jun/2023 ] This new pressing of bassist Leroy Vinnegar's first album as a leader, Leroy Walks!, is released as part of Acoustic Sounds' celebration of Contemporary Records. Originally released in 1958, the album sees Victor Feldman, Gerald Wilson, Teddy... |
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Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes
Expansions (Gatefold LP) [ Ace / LP - released 5/Jun/2020 ] Lonnie's 1975 jazz-funk masterpiece is released on 180g black vinyl in a nice thick card gatefold sleeve. Former Miles Davis and Pharoah Sanders keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith saw all his musical ideas coming together for this, his third album.... |