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Tommy Newsom
Friendly Fire [ Arbors / CD - released 28/Jul/2009 ] "This CD, under Tommy Newsom's own name, is a long-overdue validation of his true stature. The tempos may vary, the moods may change - but the key word that describes Tommy's playing is always - "taste!" |
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The Bix Centennial All Stars, with special guest, Dick Hyman
Celebrating Bix! [ Arbors / CD - released 28/Jul/2009 ] The Bix Centennial All Stars celebrate his 100th birthday |
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Warren Vaché (cornet, trumpet, vocals), with Joe Puma, Murray Wall and Eddie Locke
What Is There To Say? [ Nagel Heyer / CD - released 29/Jan/2001 ] Recorded May 1999 in New York City. |
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The Warren Vaché Quintet
Plays The Music Of Harry Warren [ Nagel Heyer / CD - released 29/Jan/1997 ] The Warren Vaché Quintet plays the music of Harry Warren. Warren Vaché has been described as "lyrical," "exciting," "daring," "warm" and "accessible," with his delightful way of engaging the audience. Anyone who has attended a Warren Vaché... |
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Wynton Marsalis
Standard Time Volume 4 - Marsalis Plays Monk [ Columbia Records / CD - released 18/May/1999 ] Just as Thelonious Monk remains the most modern of jazz composers some twenty years after his death, so Wynton found inspiration for playing his music in the groundbreaking, and still avant-garde, music that Louis Armstrong created with his 1927 and... |
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WYNTON MARSALIS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sweet Release & Ghost Story - two more ballets by Wynton Marsalis Wynton Marsalis (trumpet/conductor) / Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra [ Sony Music / CD - released 2/Sep/1999 ] The fifth in Wynton Marsalis's avalanche of eight releases in 1999 was another pairing of ballets, again issued on Sony Classical rather than Columbia. Sweet Release is easily the more ingratiating of the two - obviously, even slavishly, modeled on... |
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Barney Kessel (Featuring Art Pepper)
Some Like it Hot [ Original Jazz Classics / CD - released 30/Apr/1988 ] Recorded in Los Angeles on March/April, 1959, and features two alternate tracks not included on the original LP release. |
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Marty Grosz and his Swinging Fools
Ring Dem Bells [ Nagel Heyer / CD - released 27/Jul/2009 ] Recorded live in Hamburg, Germany. Feb 25th, 1995 |
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The Dave McKenna Quartet, with Zoot Sims (saxophone)
The Dave McKenna Quartet - featuring Zoot Sims [ Chiaroscuro / CD - released 25/Jul/1994 ] Prior to his longtime association with the Concord label, pianist Dave McKenna's four Chiaroscuro albums (of which this CD brings back the second) did a great deal to make the veteran mainstream pianist known to the general jazz public. AllMusic |
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Mel Powell (piano), with Benny Carter (saxophone), Howard Alden (guitar), Milt Hinton (bass), Louie Bellson (drums)
The Return Of Mel Powell (Live Aboard The S/S Norway) [ Chiaroscuro / CD - released 25/Jul/1994 ] The first jazz recording by pianist Mel Powell since 1955 (in the interim he gained a strong reputation as a modern classical composer), this CD also signalled the rebirth of Hank O'Neal's Chiaroscuro label in 1989. (AllMusic) |