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The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
The Essential Collection [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] Led by cornetist Nick La Rocca, the ODJB released what is acknowledged as the very first jazz record in 1917, both sides of which open this double CD. The band caused a sensation and went on to define the Roaring 20s and set in motion the beginning... |
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Preservation Hall Jazz Band
So It Is [ Sony / CD - released 21/Apr/2017 ] Preservation Hall Jazz Band their new album, So It Is, the septet's second release featuring all-new original music. So It Is finds the classic PHJB sound invigorated by a number of fresh influences, not least among them the band's 2015 life-changing... |
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TV Jazz All Stars, Edwin Astley / Parliament Brass and Orchestra, Buddy Kaye
Edwin Astley from the ABC-TV Series 'International Dectetive' [ Cherry Red Records / CD - released 1/Feb/2000 ] T.V. Action Jazz from the ABC-TV Series INTERNATIONAL DETECTIVE & MAN FROM INTERPOL |
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Allan Vache's Florida Jazz Allstars, featuring Johnny varro and Bob Haggart
Allan Vache's Florida Jazz Allstars [ Nagel Heyer / CD - released 2/Feb/1997 ] Recorded March 27 & 28, 1996 at Parc Studios, Orlando, Florida |
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Clark Terry, with Jeff Lindberg and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra
Clark Terry - George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess [ Americana Music / CD - released 19/Mar/1999 ] Gil Evans' historic arrangement of excerpts from George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess folk opera became one of the most important records ever released by trumpeter Miles Davis. But no one else revisited this score until it was transcribed by Jeff... |
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John Key's Jazz Monsters
Dune Dancing [ Odd Music Productions / CD - released 19/Mar/2021 ] This is John Key's fifth album of jazz style tunes. A variety of genres have been explored and perhaps written with a bit of unconscious astral travelling, while marooned in lockdown, flying from Mexico (Party Piece), to the deserts of North Africa... |
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Julie Mason and the Jazz Divas
Charmed Life [ Vox Records New Zealand / CD - released 17/Dec/2007 ] Julie and the Jazz Divas (Susan De Jong, Trudy Lile, and Jenine Bailey) are joined on this wonderful album by well known New Zealand jazz performers, Brian Smith (saxophone), Lance Su'a (guitar), and Phil Broadhurst (piano). |
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Kenny Davern and his Jazz Band
East Side, West Side [ Arbors / CD - released 27/Jul/2009 ] Born Kenneth Davern in Huntington, New York, he began his professional career as a teenager, quickly immersing himself in the vibrant New York jazz scene and playing alongside legends like Jack Teagarden and Pee Wee Russell. |
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Kid Ory & His Creole Jazz Band
Live At The Beverly Cavern - The 1949 Radio Transcription Series (4CD) [ Avid / 4 CD - released 16/Mar/2009 ] Presenting a hot 4CD Box Set release from the legendary trombonist Kid Ory covering virtually everything 504 Records made available from the Live At The Beverly Cavern 1949 radio broadcasts PLUS some aspects 504 omitted. Edward 'Kid' Ory was born... |
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The Modern Jazz Quartet
Complete Last Concert [ Atlantic Records / CD - released 25/Oct/1990 ] American imported double disc set. |
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Modern Jazz Quartet
For Ellington [ East / West Records / CD - released 2/Feb/1988 ] The Modern Jazz Quartet's For Ellington album is generally well-received as a charming, cool tribute that captures Duke Ellington's spirit through the MJQ's signature blend of jazz, blues, and classical styles (A.I.) |
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Modern Jazz Quartet
Modern Jazz Quartet: The Montreux Years [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 23/Jun/2023 ] A showcase of some of The Modern Jazz Quartet's most iconic Montreux Jazz Festival live performances, recorded between 1985 and 1993! |
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Nat King Cole & Orchestra, Johnny Hartman & Erroll Garner, Modern Jazz Quartet, Helen Forrest & Billy May, Dinah Washington, Four Freshman, etc
Harry Warren Songbook - September in the Rain [ Jazz Giants Play / CD - released 12/Oct/2005 ] Over a career spanning six decades, Warren wrote more than 800 songs. Well known Warren hits included, "Lullaby of Broadway", and, "I Only Have Eyes for You". Warren was one of America's most prolific film composers. |
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The Newport Jazz Festival All-Stars
The Newport Jazz Festival All-Stars [ Concord Jazz / CD - released 1/Jan/1985 ] |
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Swingle Singers & The Modern Jazz Quartet
Place Vendome [ Philips / CD - released 1/Feb/1986 ] The Swingle Singers were formed in Paris in 1962 and directed originally by Ward Swingle (who once belonged to Mimi Perrin's French vocal group Les Double Six). They began as session singers, mainly doing backing vocals for singers such as Charles... |
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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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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Caravan (Original Jazz Classics Series LP) [ Concord / LP - released 23/Feb/2024 ] Originally released in 1963, "Caravan" was Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers' first album for Riverside Records. Featured in addition to Blakey are Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Curtis Fuller (trombone), Wayne Shorter (sax), Cedar Walton (piano) and... |
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Indestructable (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/Dec/2022 ] Drummer Art Blakey recorded Indestructible - his last album for Blue Note - in 1964 with a powerful sextet of The Jazz Messengers consisting of Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone), Lee Morgan (trumpet), Curtis Fuller (trombone), Cedar Walton (piano ) and... |
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (LP) [ Decca / LP - released 3/May/2024 ] With Les Liaisons dangereuses 1960, Roger Vadim stirred up a scandal. Based on the famous epistolary novel by Laclos, the director presented audiences in the early 1960s with a film in which libertinism, scheming and the upper middle classes... |