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Red Door: Remember Zoot Sims
(1998)
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Scott Hamilton & Bucky Pizzarelli
As of 1998, when this CD was released, Scott Hamilton had recorded over 30 albums as a leader for Concord. Although all are quite worthwhile, the swing tenor's consistency and unchanged style since the 1970s have resulted in a certain sameness and predictability to his recordings. This release, however, definitely stands apart from the crowd, for ...
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Bright Moments
(1973)
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Rahsaan Roland Kirk's live club gigs were usually engaging, freewheeling affairs, full of good humor and a fantastically wide range of music. The double album Bright Moments (reissued as a double CD) is a near-definitive document of the Kirk live experience, and his greatest album of the '70s. The extroverted Kirk was in his element in front of an ...
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20th Century Piano Genius
(1950)
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Art Tatum
This double album was taped at a private party in 1956, featuring the amazing Art Tatum on solo piano. Tatum, who died the following year, never did decline, and he is in prime form throughout this highly enjoyable and frequently exciting set of standards. There are no real romps a la "Tiger Rag" but the 27 performances contain plenty of ...
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The Very Best of Fats Waller [RCA]
(2000)
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Fats Waller
Fats Waller mixed good-natured, theatrical humor and flawless technique in his work, and this CD gathers digitally remastered versions of 24 of his all-time top performances. The Very Best of Fats Waller features songs from each stage of his career -- including favorites like "Your Feet's Too Big," "Ain't Misbehavin'," "Two Sleepy People," "The ...
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Legrand Jazz
(1958)
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Michel Legrand With Miles Davis and Bill Evans
Michel Legrand has spent most of his life as a composer in the studios and for films, but this release is a jazz classic. Legrand took 11 famous jazz compositions and arranged them for three different groups. Tenor great Ben Webster, flutist Herbie Mann, four trombonists, and a rhythm section perform pieces by Duke Ellington, Earl Hines, Django ...
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Jazz Signatures
(2001)
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Scott Hamilton
Scott Hamilton has never been an innovator, but he has certainly been consistent. "Groundbreaking" isn't a word you will ever hear in connection with the breathy tenor man, who has excelled by sticking with the type of 1940s-minded jazz that he's known for. Although recorded in 2000, Jazz Signatures never loses its swing-to-bop mindset. Joined by ...
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Chet Atkins in Hollywood
(1959)
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Chet Atkins
If the cover of At Home evokes the 1950s, the music on In Hollywood IS the 1950s: a warm, cozy, sophisticated album of mood music in the best sense. Yet this is not an album of film music (though a handful of film themes turn up). Rather, it is exactly what the title indicates: Chet Atkins recording an album in a Hollywood studio, as opposed to ...
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Ain't Misbehavin' [Original Broadway Cast]
(1978)
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Original Cast Recording
Ain't Misbehavin' originated as a simple song by Thomas "Fats" Waller that he sold for $500 and that was then performed by Louis Armstrong. In 1978, it became the title track of a cabaret show featuring the music of Waller. It was such a considerable success that it became a Broadway show, and was resurrected in 1988 for a brief stint. Ain't ...
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Guitar Legend: The RCA Years
(2000)
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Chet Atkins
Considering the incredible amount of influence and prestige Chet Atkins has pumped into country music in the last 50 years, it's strange that there aren't more greatest-hits packages on the market of real value. While RCA's Essential Chet Atkins attempts the near-impossible task of condensing the guitarist's vast 30-year output onto a single disc, ...
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The Very Best of Fats Waller [Collectors' Choice]
(2000)
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Fats Waller
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60 Great All Time Songs, Vol. 3
(1992)
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Dick Hyman
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Live at the Roosevelt Grill, Vol. 2
(1970)
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Bobby Hackett
For a few months in 1970, cornetist Bobby Hackett led one of the finest working groups of his career, a quintet with co-leader Vic Dickenson on trombone, pianist Dave McKenna, bassist Jack Lesberg and drummer Cliff Leeman. Fortunately, the band's long stint at the Roosevelt Grill Hotel was extensively recorded by producer Hank O'Neal; some of it ...
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In Person
(1963)
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Vince Guaraldi
A followup to his surprise hit album Jazz Impressions Of Black Orpheus, this is Guaraldi at his most winning, alternating between a straight jazz trio and the fast bossa nova groove of a Latin-ized quintet. Nothing fancy, just irresistible melodic swinging in either format, although it is the bossa treatments that particularly grab the listener's ...
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My Song
(1993)
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Joe Pass
During his last years guitarist Joe Pass often used the same unit on a regular basis, one that he had utilized to record his classic For Django, back in 1963. For this pleasing effort John Pisano offers some suitable rhythm guitar while bassist Jim Hughart and drummer Colin Bailey are typically tasteful in support. Tom Ranier is an important ...
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Bringing It Together
(1984)
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Stephane Grappelli/Toots Thielemans
This 1984 studio session finally appeared commercially on the Cymekob label in 1995, featuring violinist Stéphane Grappelli in a rare meeting with harmonica player Toots Thielemans; the rest of the group included guitarists Martin Taylor and Marc Fosset with bassist Brian Torff. Though producer Andy Kulberg claims in his notes that neither ...
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Dick Hyman Plays Fats Waller
(1988)
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Dick Hyman
Strange as it seems, pianist Dick Hyman was not present at the recording session that resulted in this CD. Months earlier, Hyman performed 15 Fats Waller songs on the Bosendorfer 2905E reproducing piano in New York. A computer floppy disc of the date was sent to California where it was recorded direct to CD. But more important than the technology ...
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Key One Up
(2000)
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Ray Bryant/Bobby Henderson/Sir Charles Thompson
This compilation is culled from three albums produced by John Hammond in the '60s. The collection is rather interesting as a comparison of the styles of these three fine traditional jazz pianists. Henderson's unaccompanied pieces are a direct line from the stride playing of Fats Waller, while Sir Charles Thompson's playing is more akin to Duke ...
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In a Mellow Tone
(2003)
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Howard Alden/Bucky Pizzarelli
Howard Alden and Bucky Pizzarelli played together a number of times over the years during jazz parties and in concerts, though the two seven-string guitarists never made a full CD together until In a Mellow Tone (though Alden appeared on a few tracks of Pizzarelli's A Portrait). Both heirs to the legacy of guitarist George Van Eps (who popularized ...
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The London Concert
(1978)
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Oscar Peterson
This two-CD set, which reissues a Pablo two-LP release, features pianist Oscar Peterson in a strong and supportive trio with bassist John Heard and drummer Louis Bellson. Although his sidemen get some solo space, the focus is primarily on the remarkable pianist on a variety of standards, his own "Hogtown Blues" and a six-song Duke Ellington medley ...
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Hot Timbales!: Out of This World/Mambo of the Times
(2002)
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Tito Puente
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Matrix
(2001)
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Dizzy Gillepsie
The three albums on this double-disc collection actually document Dizzy Gillespie's relatively short stay on the Perception label between 1970-1971. For jazz purists, the latter two, Portrait of Jenny and the live Giants (with a band co-led by Diz and Bobby Hackett) will be of most interest. The first of these -- making up the latter four titles ...
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Dizzy's Big 4 [Pablo]
(1974)
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Dizzy Gillespie's Big 4
Dizzy Gillespie omits a piano on these 1974 sessions, but it is never missed due to the potent rhythm section supplied by guitarist Joe Pass, bassist Ray Brown, and drummer Mickey Roker. Starting with the inspired, occasionally funky Latin-flavored "Frelimo" (which features the leader on both muted and open trumpet), Gillespie is in top form. His ...
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Happy Time
(1962)
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Junior Mance
Pianist Junior Mance was in excellent company on this inspired 1962 session with bassist Ron Carter and drummer Mickey Roker. Its unfortunate this trio only recorded together on this one date as their unity propels the blues, gospel, and bebop ideas Mance consistently feeds them. The program is highlighted by three Mance originals "Out South," ...
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The Dance of Life
(1999)
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Xavier Davis
An excellent modern jazz date, this session features pianist Xavier Davis and his quartet playing modernized versions of eight standards (including "The Nearness of You," "Jitterbug Waltz," "Where or When," and Carole King's "You've Got a Friend") plus two of Davis' originals. Along with the leader, the lead voice is frequently Don Braden on tenor ...
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Meeting of the Grooves
(2002)
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Gene Bertoncini/Frank Vignola
This duo meeting of guitarists Gene Bertoncini and Frank Vignola pairs musicians separated by a generation in age, but that's all. Both men have proven themselves as strong soloists in group settings and each of them has made rewarding solo CDs, but they are also very much up to the task of the necessary give and take of guitar duets. They make ...
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