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Louis Armstrong
Meets Oscar Peterson (180gm LP) [ Waxtime / LP - released 14/Jan/2022 ] In the mid-fifties, Norman Granz' decision to change Louis' studio environment was greatly welcomed by the jazz world. The producer replaced Satchmo's All Stars with the Oscar Peterson Trio plus Louie Bellson on drums on a number of sessions; set up... |
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Maceo Parker
Soul Food - Cooking With Maceo (LP) [ ADA / Warner / LP - released 10/Jul/2020 ] 'Soul Food - Cooking with Maceo' blends raw, old school funk with the flavours of the New Orleans school of music. Parker worked with Ivan Neville, Nikki Glaspie and Tony Hall, as well as a host of local musicians to record the songs. The funky... |
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Maciej Obara Quartet
Frozen Silence (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 8/Sep/2023 ] Frozen Silence is the third ECM release from alto saxophonist Maciej Obara's Polish-Norwegian quartet bringing the story forward from Unloved and Three Crowns - and perhaps its strongest musical statement to date. Alert interactivity is the hallmark... |
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Madeleine Peyroux
Careless Love (Deluxe Triple LP) [ Craft Recordings / 3 LP - released 1/Jan/2021 ] Weaving strands of acoustic blues, country ballads, classic jazz, torch songs and pop into a vibrant, timeless fabric, with Peyroux's arresting vocals always front and center. |
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Mahavishnu Orchestra
Visions Of The Emerald Beyond (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 3/Jan/2019 ] Mahavishnu Orchestra was one of the keystone bands of the jazz-rock fusion movement. Their 1975 album Visions of the Emerald Beyond is a more accessible album, consisting of shorter jazz-rock tracks. The songs are connected with each other and even... |
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Makaya McCraven
Universal Beings: E & F Sides (LP) [ International Anthem / LP - released 26/Oct/2018 ] Paris-born, New England-raised, long-time Chicago-residing Makaya McCraven has been at the forefront of genre-redefining movements in jazz since 2015, when he introduced the world to his unique brand of 'organic beat music' on the breakout album In... |
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Manu Katche
Neighbourhood (LP) [ ECM Records / LP - released 7/Jun/2019 ] Manu teams up with Jan Garbareck, Tomasz Stanko, Marcin Wasilewski & Slawomir Kurkiewicz - the fine results speak for themselves. 'Neighbourhood' = ECM at its finest. |
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Marcin Wasilewski Trio
Live (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 14/Sep/2018 ] For years, fans of Poland's Marcin Wasilewski Trio have been asking for a live album. Here it is. Recorded at the Jazz Middelheim Festival in Antwerp, Belgium, in August 2016, it captures the trio in energetic, extroverted mode, fanning the flames of... |
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Marcin Wasilewski Trio / Joe Lovano
Arctic Riff (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 10/Jul/2020 ] The first-time teaming of Poland's dynamic Marcin Wasilewski Trio and big-toned US tenorist Joe Lovano brings forth special music of concentrated, deep feeling, in which lyricism and strength seem ideally balanced. The alliance plays four new tunes... |
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Marilyn Crispell, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian
Amaryllis (Luminessence Series) (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 23/Aug/2024 ] Return of the great American jazz trio that delivered the poll-topping "Nothing Ever Was, Anyway" in 1997. Material heard on "Amaryllis" is by turns thoughtful, touching, joyous and viscerally exciting. Some of the songs are well known - almost... |
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Mark Turner, Jason Palmer, Joe Martin, Jonathan Pinson
Return From The Stars (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 7/Oct/2022 ] Mark Turner's writing for his quartet on Return from the Stars (titled after Stanislav Lem's science fiction novel) gives the players plenty of space in which to move, on an album both exhilarating and thoughtful in its arc of expression. Solos flow... |
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Masqualero
Aero (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] Performers: Masqualero - Arild Andersen, Jon Christensen, Tore Brunborg, Nils Petter Molvaer, Frode Alnaes |
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Mathias Eick
Midwest (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 27/Mar/2015 ] Mathias Eick reflects on distances travelled in this intensely melodic set of original compositions, which makes an imaginative journey from Hem, the tiny Norwegian village where the trumpeter grew up, to the vast plains of Dakota in the American... |
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Mathias Eick
When We leave (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 25/Mar/2022 ] Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick's expressive playing, which according to the New York Times radiates a "pristine yet penetrating tone", is remarkably well complemented in the company of his gifted supporting players and fellow travelers. |
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Mathias Eick, Kristjan Randalu, Ole Morten Vågan, Hans Hulbækmo
Lullaby (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 14/Feb/2025 ] For Lullaby, Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick draws on the quartet formation in a programme that includes some of his most exploratory and improvisatory qualities, with a cast of ECM familiars Kristjan Randalu and Ole Morten Vågan on piano and bass,... |
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Matthieu Bordenave
The Blue Land (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 5/Apr/2024 ] For the follow-up of his ECM-leader-debut La traversée, French saxophonist Matthieu Bordenave expands his trio of German pianist Florian Weber and Swiss bassist Patrice Moret with the unique sensibilities of drummer James Maddren, whose unrelenting... |
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Max Roach
We Insist! Freedom Now Suite (180gm LP) [ Jazz Images / LP - released 7/Sep/2018 ] In July of 1960, Max Roach and Charles Mingus - in search fo fair treatment for African-American performers - organised a "rebel festival" to coincide with the prestigious Newport Jazz Festival. Roach's celebrated LP 'We Insist! Freedom Now Suite'... |
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Christian McBride's New Jawn
Prime (Coloured Vinyl LP) [ Brother Mister / 2 LP - released 24/Feb/2023 ] Christian McBride's New Jawn - trumpeter Josh Evans (Jackie McLean, Cedar Walton, Rasheid Ali), saxophonist and bass clarinetist Marcus Strickland (Roy Haynes, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Chris Dave, Bilal, Robert Glasper), and drummer Nasheet Waits (Jason... |
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Mccoy Tyner
Mccoy Tyner - The Montreux Years (LP) [ BMG / ADA / 2 LP - released 23/Jun/2023 ] A collection of some of McCoy Tyner's best Montreux Jazz Festival live performances! The audio has Expertly restored and remastered in superlative HD audio; The Montreux Years is released on MQA quality CD and superior audiophile heavy weight... |
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McCoy Tyner
Tender Moments (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 3/Sep/2021 ] On his second Blue Note album Tender Moments, pianist and composer McCoy Tyner explored the colors and textures available in a nonet setting with some of the finest musicians of the time: Lee Morgan on trumpet, Julian Priester on trombone, Bennie... |