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Article: Bailey's Bundles

An Embarrassment of Riches From Hamburg: Recent Releases From Nagel-Heyer

Read "An Embarrassment of Riches From Hamburg: Recent Releases From Nagel-Heyer" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


This article was first published at All About Jazz in February 2001. While Nagel-Heyer Records is breaking ground with contemporary jazz releases with their Nagel-Heyer 2000 Series, showcasing music by Terell Stafford, Wycliffe Gordon, Byron Stripling, and many others, the Hamburg-centered label's catalog continues to populate itself with the fine traditional jazz recitals that ...

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Article: Building a Jazz Library

Yusef Lateef: An Alternative Top Ten Albums Blowing Cultural Nationalism Out Of The Water

Read "Yusef Lateef: An Alternative Top Ten Albums Blowing Cultural Nationalism Out Of The Water" reviewed by Chris May


A pioneer of global and modal jazz, the multi-instrumentalist and composer Yusef Lateef is only beginning to have his importance in the history of the music properly acknowledged. After languishing off-catalogue for decades, much of his output is being made available once more. A treasure trove of great jazz is out there waiting to be rediscovered. ...

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Article: Building a Jazz Library

Rahsaan Roland Kirk: An Alternative Top Ten Albums Guaranteed To Bend Your Head

Read "Rahsaan Roland Kirk: An Alternative Top Ten Albums Guaranteed To Bend Your Head" reviewed by Chris May


Jazz musicians are rarely called shamanistic but the description fits Rahsaan Roland Kirk precisely. Clad in black leather trousers and heavy duty shades (he was blind from the age of two), a truckload of strange looking horns strung round his neck—two or three of which he often played simultaneously--twisting, shaking and otherwise contorting his body, stamping ...

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Trio Feat

Label: Enja Records
Released: 2004

Album

Love Songs Live!

Label: Nagel Heyer Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: But Beautiful; Every Time We Say Goodbye; Once I Loved; Sweet Lorraine; Skyscraper; The Touch of Your Lips; This Time the Dream's on Me; Sophisticated Lady; O Grande Amor; Stardust,

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The Last Great Concert

Label: Nagel Heyer Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Stompy Jones; Sabine's Jazz Arena; A Ghost of a Chance; Jumpin' at the Woodside; Crossing the Border; What's New; Stealin' Apples; If Dreams Come True; Will You Still Be Mine; Willow Weep for Me; Satin Doll; It Don't Mean a Thing (if It Ain't Got That Swing)

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Article: Album Review

Oliver Jackson: The Last Great Concert

Read "The Last Great Concert" reviewed by Dave Nathan


The late Oliver Jackson had one foot in each of the major jazz camps, bop and swing. Out of Detroit, he performed with some of the first rate boppers from that city like Tommy Flanagan and Paul Chambers as well as working with Eddie Locke and Yusef Lateef. But he also played with some of the ...


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