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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"...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...
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 --...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Moodswing -- CD
Joshua Redman Quartet
1994 Warner Bros. Records
One of the best at his very best!, August 1, 2002
By Greg Randolph (Johnson City, Tennessee United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mood Swing (Audio CD)
This recording in my opinion is the freshest and finest...
Merry Christmas everyone.... :occasion-xmas:
Have Yourself A Soulful Little Christmas -- Remastered 96/24 Bit CD :text-bravo:
Kenny Burrell
1966/2003 Cadet/Verve Records
Kenny Burrell: Soulful Little Christmas, December 12, 2011
ByD.R.L. (Austin, Texas, USA) - See all my reviews...
Just Jazz: Live At The Blue Note -- CD
Lionel Hampton and The Golden Men Of Jazz
1992 Telarc Jazz
The second of two volumes by "the Golden Men of Jazz" at the Blue Note in New York, this CD is not at the same level as the first with several almost chaotic spots; listen to how Lionel Hampton...
Live At The Blue Note -- CD
Lionel Hampton and The Golden Men Of Jazz
1991 Telarc Jazz
Current Lionel Hampton, June 4, 1998
By A Customer
This review is from: Golden Men of Jazz / Live at Blue Note (Audio CD)
Hampton got together with a bunch of old buddies in the early 1990s to make this...
The Poll Winners -- Remastered 20-Bit K2 XRCD
Barney Kessel with Shelly Manne and Ray Brown
1957/1988 Contemporary/JVC Records
Amazon.com
The Poll Winners trio was based on guitarist Barney Kessel, bassist Ray Brown, and drummer Shelly Manne, who each managed to place first on his instrument...