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Kind of Blue -- Limited Edition SACD # 1067 Miles Davis 1959/2015 Columbia/MFSL Numbered, Limited Edition Hybrid SACD Mastered from the Original Master Tapes! Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 12/500! The Absolute Sound 40th Anniversary Best Sounding Music! Best-Selling... -
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Dream With Dean - The Intimate Dean Martin -- SACD Dean Martin 1964/2015 Analog Productions A profile of a rugged Dean Martin by the fireplace with a cigarette adorns the jacket of this very interesting concept album. As Stan Cornyn's liner notes explain, "his longtime accompanist" on piano... -
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East! -- SACD Pat Martino 1968/2006 Prestige/MFSL Pat Martino East! on Limited Edition Hybrid SACD from Mobile Fidelity Killer Jazz Guitar Album from 1968 Never Sounded So Good Mastered from the Original Analog Master Tapes for the First Time Ever Despite the title and the cover of this CD... -
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Today's work truck music... Kill To Get Crimson -- CD Mark Knopfler 2007 Warner Bros. Records Amazon.com Three decades after Dire Straits broke onto the scene with their remarkable debut, Mark Knopfler remains an iconic figure in popular music, his graceful guitar playing equaled only by... -
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Manhattan Moods -- CD McCoy Tyner & Bobby Hutcherson 1994 Blue Note Records Pianist Tyner and vibes player Hutcherson go way back in jazz's be-bop canon, and the gorgeous refrains to be found on MANHATTAN MOODS provide evidence that their brilliance has hardly dimmed in their more than... -
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Circle Waltz -- XRCD2 Don Friedman Trio 1962/1999 Riverside/Victor Japan AllMusic Review by Scott Yanow Even ignoring that bassist Chuck Israels is on this set and the similarity of some of the repertoire, it's difficult to overlook the fact that pianist Don Friedman sounds very similar to... -
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"...and his mother called him Bill" -- Remasterd 24bit CD Duke Ellington and His Orchestra 1967/2001 RCA Victor Gold (Import France) When Billy Strayhorn died of cancer in 1967, Duke Ellington was devastated. His closest friend and arranger had left his life full of music and memories. As a... -
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Within A Song -- CD John Abercrombie Quartet 2012 ECM Records Abercrombie's Best Album in Years, and a New Classic ECM Release By Stephen Silberman on August 4, 2012 Format: Audio CD Exquisitely sensitive and empathic performances of tunes by Bill Evans, John Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman --... -
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Angel Eyes: Ballads & Slow Jams -- CD Jimmy Smith 1996 Verve Records The '90s lounge revival and the hubbub surrounding acid jazz would seem ideal reasons for veteran jazz organist Jimmy Smith to pull rank and power up his Hammond B-3 for the sort of greasy grooves and ur-funk riffs that... -
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Our Gang -- SACD The Anthony Wilson Trio 2001 Groove Note Records Anthony's Trio is Top Notch, June 2, 2001 By Ryan Meagher (San Jose, CA USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: Our Gang (Audio CD) I have heard many compare LA's hippest trio to the famous Larry Goldings organ trio... -
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Lester Young with The Oscar Peterson Trio -- Remastered 20bit CD 1953/1997 Verve Master Edition It could be argued that the modern saxophonist makes some musical allusion to Lester Young--no matter how remote or indirect--in every solo rendered. On this release (1952), we hear the legendary... -
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Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges Gerry Mulligan - Johnny Hodges 1961/2003 Verve Records Gerry Mulligan's 1959 studio date with Johnny Hodges is one of the most satisfying sessions of his various meetings with different saxophonists for Verve, yet it was inexplicably the last to be made... -
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Once When I Was Young -- CD The Dave Brubeck Quartet 1992 MusicMasters Jazz On this nostalgic and often wistful set, Dave Brubeck and his 1991 Quartet (clarinetist Bill Smith, bassist Jack Six and drummer Randy Jones) play eight songs from the pianist's childhood, such numbers as "Shine on... -
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The Great American Songbook -- 2 Remastered CD Set Nancy Wilson 2005 Blue Note Records One of three excellent Nancy Wilson compilations issued simultaneously by Capitol Jazz in 2005, THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK cherry-picks from the many standards that the pop/jazz vocalist recorded for the... -
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This one's a Two-fer..... It looks like this... The Duo Sessions -- RemasteredCD Ray Brown - Jimmy Rowles 1978 & 1980/2000 Concord Jazz "As good as it gets - even better than 5 stars" October 25, 2000 By J. Lovins HALL OF FAMETOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE Everybody knows Ray Brown...