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Singin' with the Big Bands
(1994)
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Barry Manilow
Like Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow embarked on a transition during the 1990s from being a contemporary pop singer/songwriter to being an interpretive singer on the model of Tony Bennett, who achieved a career resurgence around the same time with a series of thematic albums. Manilow followed 1991's Showstoppers, an album of songs from Broadway shows, ...
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Collection: 1947-1972
(1998)
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Johnny Hartman
Just where Johnny Hartman's name ends up in the pantheon of great jazzy pop singers is still left open to debate. But his talents and mastery of a lyric come to the fore on this marvelous two-CD set of tunes cherry-picked from his long, if not particularly prolific, career, leaving no doubt about his prodigious talents. Hartman went through label ...
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And I Thought About You
(1958)
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Johnny Hartman
Johnny Hartman gained posthumous fame as one of the warmest ballad singers of this century, and his deep baritone voice is well showcased on this 1958 date, which emphasizes slower tempos with a couple of exceptions ("Sunday" and "After You've Gone"). Accompanied by a subtle orchestra arranged by Rudy Traylor (the personnel is unknown), Hartman is ...
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The Complete RCA Victor Recordings: 1947-1949
(1947)
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Dizzy Gillespie
Although the sheer scope of this double-CD roundup of all of Dizzy's Victor sessions places it most obviously within the evolution of bebop, it is absolutely essential to Latin jazz collections as well. Here listeners find the discographical launching pad of Afro-Cuban jazz on December 22, 1947, when Cuban conguero Chano Pozo added his galvanic ...
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Falling in Love with Jazz
(1989)
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Sonny Rollins
Wonderful Rollins. Undistinguished material. Tommy Flanagan (p) and Branford Marsalis (ts) are tough. Ron Wynn, All Music Guide
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Long Ago and Far Away
(1996)
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Charlie Watts
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The Complete Blue Note Recordings
(1947)
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Thelonious Monk
This magnificent limited-edition set launched the Mosaic label in real style. Included are all of Thelonious Monk's Blue Note recordings, six sessions as a leader from 1947-52 complete with alternate takes plus two titles cut with tenor-saxophonist Sonny Rollins in 1957. Since these were Monk's first opportunities to lead his own recording dates, ...
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The Sweetest Sounds
(1988)
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Donald Brown
Donald Brown has had a fairly low-profile career despite his talents, settling in Tennessee as a teacher after a period playing with the Jazz Messengers and teaching at Berklee. This lesser-known effort, cut for the JazzCity label and reissued a decade later by Evidence, matches the pianist with bassist Charnett Moffett, drummer Alan Dawson, and ...
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You Must Believe in Spring
(1992)
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Frank Morgan
A '92 release by marvelous alto saxophonist Frank Morgan, whose life story and triumph over heroin addiction and imprisonment was one of the '80s' great success tales. Morgan's biting, yet sensitive and rich alto has rightly been traced to Charlie Parker, but Morgan long ago rid his style of any imitative excesses. He was excellently supported on ...
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Flight to Jordan
(1960)
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Duke Jordan
Duke Jordan, who played regularly with the Charlie Parker Quintet in 1947, has long been known as a superior bebop pianist whose style was touched by the genius of Bud Powell's innovations. This quintet album (which also features trumpeter Dizzy Reece and the young tenor Stanley Turrentine) gave Jordan an opportunity to record six of his originals ...
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But Beautiful
(2003)
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Boz Scaggs
Apparently, old rock singers who have exhausted their commercial appeal and have sung all the pop and soul standards have but one place to turn -- the American popular songbook. Linda Ronstadt pioneered this move in the '80s, Rod Stewart picked it up at the turn of the century, and, now no longer at Virgin, Boz Scaggs picks up the torch with 2003 ...
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Soliloquy
(1991)
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McCoy Tyner
This is a particularly well-rounded McCoy Tyner solo set. The masterful pianist performs four Coltrane tunes (including "After The Rain" and two versions of "Crescent"), five of his own originals (highlighted by "Tribute To Lady Day" and "Effendi"), Bud Powell's classic "Bouncin' With Bud," Dexter Gordon's "Tivoli" and three veteran standards. ...
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Unforgettable
(1998)
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Joe Pass
Here is a second brace of solo Pass tracks from the sessions that have already yielded Songs for Ellen. The ambience is ruminative and extremely intimate; the menu consists entirely of much-explored standards at mostly unrelieved slow tempos. Several notes are not cleanly struck, but the musical imagination that previously yielded several solo ...
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Ballad Essentials
(2000)
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Scott Hamilton
Scott Hamilton's Ballad Essentials collects interpretations of standards like "Skylark," "Body and Soul," "In a Sentimental Mood," "'Round Midnight," and "My Romance." A solid collection from one of mainstream jazz's most consistent tenor sax players. Heather Phares, All Music Guide
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Thelonious Himself
(1957)
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Thelonious Monk
These are mostly solo; with one cut Coltrane (ts) and Wilbur Ware (b). Ron Wynn, All Music Guide
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From My Heart
(2002)
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Eric Reed
Pianist Eric Reed's touch has always been a sensitive one, but From My Heart marks the first time Reed has really consummated this side of his playing, going out of his way to bring a mostly unheard side of him to emotional ballads from popular and classical music as well as jazz. On From My Heart, Reed has chosen the minimalist accompaniment of ...
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Solo Monk [Bonus Tracks]
(2003)
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Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk made a total of six solo piano recordings in his lifetime. The first three were between 1954-1959 for the Riverside label and its affiliates, two were for Alfred Lion's Black Lion label very late in his career, and Solo Monk was in 1964 and 1965 recorded mainly out West while on tour. As with Legacy's other reissues, Solo Monk is a ...
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Bill Evans at Town Hall
(1966)
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Bill Evans
This CD (which adds three songs including a previously unreleased version of "One for Helen" to the original LP program) is a superior effort by Bill Evans and his trio in early 1966. The last recording by longtime bassist Chuck Israels (who had joined the Trio in 1962) with Evans (the tastefully supportive drummer Arnold Wise completes the group) ...
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Wizard of the Vibes
(1952)
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Milt Jackson
The music on Wizard of the Vibes features Milt Jackson with the Thelonious Monk Quartet in a 1948 session combined with a 1952 date with his bandmates from the Modern Jazz Quartet (at that time including John Lewis, Percy Heath, and Kenny Clarke) along with alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson, who was oddly credited as the leader of the date on the ...
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Monk Alone: The Complete Columbia Solo Studio Recordings: 1962-1968
(1998)
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Thelonious Monk
As any Monk aficionado knows, his solo piano performances were wonderful, idiosyncratic, living works of art that often wound up in completely different territory from where they began. Sometimes the results would be a little shakey; often they would be inspiring. Regardless, these solo performances were adventures, and that quality makes the ...
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On the Trail
(1964)
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Jimmy Heath
Unlike some of his other Riverside recordings, the accent on this Jimmy Heath CD reissue is very much on his tenor playing (rather than his arrangements). Heath is in excellent form with a quintet that also includes pianist Wynton Kelly, guitarist Kenny Burrell, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Albert "Tootie" Heath. The instantly recognizable ...
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A Jazz Romance: A Night in With Verve
(2001)
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Various Artists
In jazz, ballads have a way of separating the men from the boys and the women from the girls. They show what an improviser is made of emotionally. On ballads, technique for the sake of technique doesn't cut it -- you have to bring some genuine feeling and honest-to-God emotion to the table. And there is plenty of honest-to-God emotion on this four ...
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Something Cool [2001 Reissue]
(1953)
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June Christy
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Morning in Paris
(1963)
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Sathima Bea Benjamin
In 1963, singer Sathima Bea Benjamin persuaded Duke Ellington to see her future husband, Abdullah Ibrahim (then known as Dollar Brand), play in a club in Europe. Ellington was impressed by both of the recent South African émigrés and arranged with Reprise to record them. While Brand's record came out within a year, Benjamin's debut was lost and ...
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Voices in Love/Love Lost
(1998)
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The Four Freshmen
In 1998, Collectors' Choice released Voices in Love/Love Lost, which contained two complete albums -- Voices in Love (1958, originally released on Capitol) and Love Lost (1959, originally released on Capitol) -- by the Four Freshmen on one compact disc. Jason Birchmeier, All Music Guide
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