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 |
The Miles Davis Quintet
Workin' With The Miles Davis Quintet (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 12/May/2023 ] Undeniably one of the most iconic small bands in the history of jazz, the Miles Davis Quintet of the mid-1950s featured an all-star line-up of Miles Davis (trumpet), John Coltrane (tenor sax), Red Garland (piano), Paul Chambers (bass) and Philly Joe... |
MOZART / BARBER / HINDEMITH / JANACEK / POULENC / ROSSINI / etc
The Complete Columbia Album Collection Philadelphia, Woodwind Quintet [ Sony Classical / 12 CD Box Set - released 17/Sep/2023 ] The Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet; founded in 1950; comprised the principal woodwinds and French horn of The Philadelphia Orchestra. They made their recording debut for Columbia in 1953: four players from the ensemble were joined by pianist Rudolf... |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Music for Wind Instruments Stéphane Lemelin (piano) / Canada's National Arts Centre Wind Quintet [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Mar/2011 ] "The unifying feature of this programme is the excellently judged piano playing of Stéphane Lemelin, who adds a discerning range of colour and spirit to the performances" Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice - March 2011 |
Thelonious Monk Quintet
Thelonious Monk Quintet [ Prestige / CD - released 2/Feb/1982 ] Recognized as one of the most original musicians in American history, Thelonious Sphere Monk fashioned a startlingly unique, inimitable playing and composing style that influenced virtually every succeeding jazz generation. His playing technique... |
MALCOLM ARNOLD / PAUL PATTERSON / GUSTAV HOLST / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Arnold: Three Shanties / Patterson: Comedy for Five Winds / Holst: Wind Quintet Vega Wind Quintet [ LDR / CD - released 1/Jul/1988 ] That Paul Patterson's music possessed a razor-sharp sense of humour...when the Comedy for five winds was written for the Vega Wind Quintet, one can hear just how much further his deployment of musical humour has developed. |
Harold Land Quintet
The Peace-Maker (Verve By Request Series LP) [ Verve / LP - released 10/Nov/2023 ] Released on the Cadet label in 1968, The Peace-Maker was the first of ten collaborations between the great tenor saxophonist Harold Land and vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson. With a group including pianist Joe Sample, the session results in a lively,... |
The Miles Davis Quintet
Steamin' With The Miles Davis Quintet (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 27/Oct/2023 ] Featuring an all-star personnel of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones, Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet is one of the four albums that came out of the two legendary 1956 sessions of the... |
Rahim Alhaj
Letters from Iraq Rahim Alhaj Oud and String Quintet [ Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / CD - released 1/Jun/2023 ] Letters from Iraq expresses the love and pain of lives lived by the people of war-torn Iraq. Actual mailed letters and their stories are transposed into eight gripping programmatic compositions by Iraqi-American composer and oud player, Rahim AlHaj... |
Cannonball Adderley Quintet
At the Lighthouse [ CD ] |
David Ullmann Quintet
Falling [ CD - released 17/Jan/2013 ] |
Jesse Davis Quintet
Live at Smalls [ CD ] |
Mark Turner Quintet
Yam Yam [ CD ] |
Miles Davis and Milt Jackson Quintet/Sextet
And Milt Jackson Quintet/Sextet [ CD - released 2/Jan/2010 ] |
Miles Davis Quintet
The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings 1965-1968 [ Legacy / Columbia Records / 6 CD Box Set - released 15/Jun/2004 ] A re-issue of the fantastic, highly praised, digitally re-mastered super deluxe box set with 13 previously unreleased tracks. |
Miles Davis Quintet
Cookin' With The Miles Davis Quintet [ Concord / CD - released 1/Oct/2014 ] Cookin' is the first of four albums derived from the Miles Davis Quintet's fabled extended recording session on October 26, 1956; the concept being that the band would document its vast live-performance catalog in a studio environment, rather than... |
Miles Davis Quintet
Live At The 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival [ Monterey Jazz Festival Records / CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] An outstanding new CD series of NEVER-BEFORE RELEASED performances by jazz icons recorded live at the worldrenowned Monterey Jazz Festival. |
Miles Davis Quintet
Live In Europe 1967 [ Sony Legacy / CD - released 20/Sep/2011 ] |
Nancy Wilson with The George Shearing Quintet
The Swingin's Mutual [ Capitol Records / CD - released 15/Mar/2004 ] Digitally re-mastered with eight bonus tracks! A dynamic pairing that proved to be a career starter for Wilson |
Roy Hargrove Quintet
Earfood [ CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] |
Sir Douglas Quintet
The Mono Singles '68 - '72 [ CD ] |
Afro-Blues Quintet Plus 1
New Directions In Sound [ Ace Records U.K. / CD - released 9/Nov/2004 ] |
Alan Skidmore Quintet
Once Upon A Time [ Vocalion / CD - released 30/May/2005 ] |
Alan Skidmore Quintet, The
Tcb [ Vocalion / CD - released 18/Jul/2011 ] |
American Brass Quintet
American Brass Quintet [ Delos / CD - released 5/Sep/2005 ] |
Ammons, Gene - Sonny Stitt (Quintet)
Boss Tenors + Dig Him [ American Jazz Classics / CD - released 14/Sep/2012 ] |
Art Farmer And Hal Mckusick Quintet
Complete Studio Recordings [ CD ] |
The Art Van Damme Quintet
Cocktail Capers / More Cocktail Capers [ Jasmine / CD - released 8/Jan/2021 ] Once described as 'The hippest cat ever to swing an accordion', ART VAN DAMME achieved the near impossible by getting the Jazz firmament to accept the accordion as a serious musical instrument. Having got his recording career under way in the... |
Antonín REJCHA
Rejcha: Wind Quintets Belfiato Quintet [ Supraphon / CD - released 27/Sep/2019 ] "The Belfiato Quintet are excellent throughout, theirs is a more detailed and enlightening performance, one that shows this wonderful music off to its best." MusicWeb recommended |
The Benny Goodman Quintet & Orchestra
Happy Session [ Essential Jazz Classics / CD - released 30/Aug/2010 ] |
The Benny Goodman Quintet & Orchestra
Happy Session (Vinyl) [ Wax Time / LP - released 30/Aug/2010 ] |