KEN WILSON
Music For Woodwinds Zephyr Wind Quintet, NZSO, Peter Scholes, Ben Hoadley, Adrianna Lis, Andrew Uren [ Atoll Records / CD - released 26/Jan/2018 ] Ken Wilson's works are played by a variety of performers including the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and the Zephyr Quintet. |
New Bop Quintet (Mike Booth, Kevin Field, Pete France, Frank Gibson Jr, Cameron McArthur)
NBQ [ CD - released 4/Jun/2021 ] The New Bop Quintet shine a fresh light on the key aspects of Hard Bop - a close link with the blues, a strong rhythmical presence and strong melody lines. NBQ revisit the Hard Bop ethos with stunning original tunes and a familiar yet fresh take on... |
The Quintet
Jazz At Massey Hall (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 27/Oct/2023 ] This modern jazz summit meeting in Toronto has been called "the greatest jazz concert ever." We owe the survival of the music to Charles Mingus, who, along with Max Roach, taped the concert and subsequently issued it on his own new Debut... |
GYORGY LIGETI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ligeti - String Quartets 1 & 2 / Vocal works Artemis Quartet / Barry Tuckwell Wind Quintet / Groupe Vocal de France, Guy Reibel [ EMI 20th Century Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] Lux Aeterna put Ligeti on the map for the wider public when Stanley Kubrick appropriated it for its unearthly effect in his film 2001, A Space Odyssey. But his music began firmly in his Hungarian roots, and bears a debt to Bartók and Kodály. |
CAMBINI / BRICCIALDI
Wind Quintets Avalon Wind Quintet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2016 ] Anton Hoffmeister was active in Vienna both as a composer and a publisher, becoming closely associated with Mozart and including works by Beethoven amongst his editions. The combination of violin and cello had its appeal for the amateur market,... |
BEETHOVEN / HOLST / BARBER / ARRIEU
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven/Holst/Barber/Arrieu: Summer Music Belgian Wind Quintet [ Discover / CD - released 10/Feb/1990 ] Recorded at the Concert Hall of the Belgium Radio & Television in December 1988 and January 1989 |
Charlie Watts Quintet, with Bernard Fowler (vocal)
Charlie Watts - Warm & Tender [ Continuum Records / CD - released 30/Jun/1993 ] The recording shows just how frequently Watts was able to exercise his jazz muscles between Rolling Stones commitments to create a bespoke discography of his own. |
The Gary Burton Quintet
Dreams So Real [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in December 1975, Gary Burton's 'Dreams So Real' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
Kelly Smith & Billy May, Nat King Cole & George Shearing,, Art Pepper Quintet, Ella Fitzgerald & Nelson Riddle, Lee Konitz, Miles Davis, etc
Jerome Kern Songbook - The Song Is You [ Jazz Giants Play / CD - released 12/Oct/2005 ] Rodgers and Hart were an American songwriting partnership between composer Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and the lyricist Lorenz Hart (1895-1943). They worked together on 28 stage musicals and more than 500 songs from 1919 until Hart's death in 1943. |
The Miles Davis Quintet
Four Classic Albums (Cookin' / Relaxin' / Workin' / Steamin') [ Avid / 2 CD - released 14/Aug/2020 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Albums series with a re-mastered 2CD release from The Miles Davis Quintet complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details |