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Indian Summer

Indian Summer (2007) more music like this

by Dave Brubeck

It's not uncommon for anyone to turn toward nostalgia as the years wear on, and at age 86, with nearly 60 years of recording behind him and nearly 50 since he shook up the jazz world with his landmark Time Out album, Dave Brubeck is certainly entitled to look back and take stock of his life. Indian Summer -- the phrase itself suggests an ...

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The Unique Thelonious Monk

The Unique Thelonious Monk (1956) more music like this

by Thelonious Monk

The seven-song Unique Thelonious Monk (1956) platter was the pianist's second during his remarkable five-year tenure on Riverside. His debut for the label was the aptly titled Plays Duke Ellington (1955) and once again, on this disc, Monk's song selection did not feature any original compositions. Rather, the well-chosen standards included ...

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The Best of the Pablo Group Masterpieces

The Best of the Pablo Group Masterpieces (2003) more music like this

by Art Tatum

A rich and rewarding core sample, selected from one of Norman Granz's deepest gold mines. The full set of Tatum ensemble master takes was released on eight vinyl records in 1975, appearing with alternate takes as a box of seven compact discs in 1990. Since then, each separate session has been issued on a single, affordable CD. With the release of ...

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Love Songs

Love Songs (2006) more music like this

by Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong

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The Art Tatum Solo Masterpieces, Vol. 5

The Art Tatum Solo Masterpieces, Vol. 5 (1953) more music like this

by Art Tatum

The fifth volume of this eight CD-series features Tatum interpreting 15 of the 119 standards he recorded during four marathon solo recording sessions for Norman Granz. He sounds typically wondrous in spots even though there are few surprises throughout this generally relaxed set. Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

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Sentimental Journey: Hits from the Second World War

Sentimental Journey: Hits from the Second World War (2007) more music like this

by Various Artists

This 20-track companion disc to the Ken Burns' PBS documentary The War provides a brief glimpse into the swing and pop music synonymous with World War II. Attempting to choose 20 songs for a single disc that are beloved by those who lived through that era, while also trying to sustain the curiosity of those who didn't, is a lofty goal. As it turns ...

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The Best of Louis Armstrong [MCA] (1965) more music like this

by Louis Armstrong

Anyone assembling a "best-of" collection involving Louis Armstrong would have to be on one level quite relaxed, aware that just about any selection of cuts would represent the "best" of just about any other artist, few of whom are up to the level of Satchmo even when he was just coasting. It is no doubt that it was his great popularity, and not ...

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Monk Alone: The Complete Columbia Solo Studio Recordings: 1962-1968

Monk Alone: The Complete Columbia Solo Studio Recordings: 1962-1968 (1998) more music like this

by 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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Young Anita

Young Anita (2001) more music like this

by Anita O'Day

Although it's been repackaged and reissued many times in many ways, Anita O'Day's pre-Verve output has never appeared so thoroughly (and so cheaply) as on Proper's four-disc box, Young Anita. Beginning in 1941 with her stint in Gene Krupa's popular band with Roy Eldridge, O'Day made an immediate impression, appearing on the hits "Let Me Off Uptown ...

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Kansas City 5

Kansas City 5 (1977) more music like this

by Count Basie

This studio session from 1977 features Count Basie in a quintet with vibraphonist Milt Jackson and guitarist Joe Pass. The predictably excellent group performs spirited versions of some of Basie's "hits" (including "Jive at Five" and "One O'Clock Jump"), some blues and a few standards. It is always interesting to hear Basie in a hornless setting ...

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Night Winds

Night Winds (1956) more music like this

by Jackie Gleason

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With Benny in Mind (2007) more music like this

by Allan Vaché

In a testimonial printed on the back of the CD case, Bill Hyland (executor of the Benny Goodman estate) observes that this album looks both "backward and forward in a stylistic sense." That's baloney. This album looks resolutely and unapologetically backward in a stylistic sense, straight back to the 1930s, when Benny Goodman was making his hugely ...

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Night Rider (1978) more music like this

by Count Basie with Oscar Peterson

When they first met up for a full album in 1974, the two-piano team of Count Basie and Oscar Peterson must have seemed like an unlikely matchup. After all, Peterson is known for filling up his rapid solos with virtuosic passages while Basie is the master of the "less-is-more" approach, making every note count. But because Peterson has such high ...

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Forever Gold (1999) more music like this

by Louis Armstrong

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A Jazz Romance: A Night in With Verve (2001) more music like this

by 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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16 Most Requested Songs (1993) more music like this

by Benny Goodman

16 Most Requested Songs is a midline-priced collection that spotlights many of Goodman's best-known and most popular performances for Columbia Records, including "Let's Dance," "Avalon," "Somebody Stole My Gal," "Why Don't You Do Right," "After You've Gone," "Stompin' at the Savoy," "How Am I to Know?" and "Sing Sing Sing." Although it's far from ...

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Louis Armstrong [Laserlight] (1996) more music like this

by Louis Armstrong

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Edmond Hall Quartet in Copenhagen (1966) more music like this

by Edmond Hall

The great and instantly recognizable clarinetist Edmond Hall is at the peak of his powers on this CD during what would be his final studio dates. Hall, who died just two months later from a heart attack (and whose only later recordings were a few songs at the Spirituals To Swing concert), is heard on three hot numbers with Papa Bue's Viking Jazz ...

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Pre Rahsaan (1961) more music like this

by Rahsaan Roland Kirk

This disc places (pre-Rahsaan )Roland Kirk's 1961 session Kirk's Work, the multi-instrumentalist's second album after one for Argo (Cadet) together with a prime, 1968 Jaki Byard LP on which Kirk was a sideman called The Jaki Byard Experience. This was a way Prestige (then owned by Fantasy Records) of packaging its catalog. They did two-fers like ...

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Swing King (2004) more music like this

by Zoot Sims

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Return to Happiness, Tokyo 1983 [2-CD] (1983) more music like this

by Jazz at the Philharmonic

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of JATP's first visit to Japan, producer Norman Granz put together a new Jazz at the Philharmonic show in 1983. Many of the earlier players were either no longer around or unavailable but Granz was able to gather a pretty strong all-star crew (Harry "Sweets" Edison and Clark Terry on trumpets, Zoot Sims and ...

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The One & Only (1991) more music like this

by Judy Garland

Judy Garland made her most commercially successful recordings for Capitol Records between 1955 and 1964, and that is the period covered in this three-disc box set. (Garland earlier recorded for Decca, MGM, and Columbia, and later for ABC; this material was not available for inclusion.) At Capitol, the former star of musical films was treated as a ...

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Memories of You (1998) more music like this

by Rosemary Clooney

This seven-CD set would rate even higher, if only it weren't for the same problems that mar the preceding Bear Family volume, covering the early years of Rosemary Clooney's career. She had one of the great voices of 1950s pop and jazz music, and when she's doing jazz -- as with Duke Ellington here, on the material off of the Blue Rose album -- or ...

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50's Golden Jukebox: Radio Days (2000) more music like this

by Various Artists

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Once More with Feeling (2007) more music like this

by Phil Bodner

Phil Bodner was a very busy musician during his long career, playing various reed instruments on all types of recording sessions, though he may be best recognized in the world of jazz for his contributions on clarinet. Relatively few releases have been under his name, so that is why this collection of unreleased tracks from the 1960s and '70s adds ...

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