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Stan Getz on Roost: 1950-52
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
On May 17, 1950, Stan Getz began recording for the Roost label as leader. On that date, Getz was backed by Al Haig (p), Tommy Potter (b) and Roy Haynes (d), and the quartet recorded six sides. Over the next two years, Getz recorded 59 tracks in all for the label, including quartet and quintet studio sessions, live quartet and quintet dates, material with guitarist Johnny Smith and three sides with Count Basie. They remain among his finest recordings. Getz's ...
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17 Hot CD Discoveries
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
I finally had time yesterday to review the CDs I set aside over the past month to share with you. Here are 17 albums that I think you'll enjoy... Enoch Smith Jr.: Misfits II Pop (Misfitme). Pianist-composer Smith and vocalist Elizabeth Charles embrace soulful jazz of the 1970s, when songs on independent labels leveraged '60s spiritualism. What's fascinating about this album is that Charles's phrasing brings a folk feel to the mix, which adds a new dimension. Smiths' piano is ...
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Ornette Coleman Sues Over Alleged Unauthorized Album Release
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HypeBot
Jazz legend Ornette Coleman has filed a lawsuit over a 2014 studio album that bears his name, alleging that it was released without his consent or knowledge. According to a report in Rolling Stone, Ornette Coleman claims that the album New Vocabulary was recorded in 2009 after Coleman invited Antibalas' trumpeter Jordan McLean and drummer Amir Ziv to his house to “share his knowledge" of jazz. McLean later asked if he could release the recordings, Coleman refused, but McLean allegedly ...
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William Parker 3-CD Box Set Of New Works To Be Released August 21 On AUM Fidelity
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Steven Joerg
On August 21, AUM Fidelity will release For Those Who Are, Still—a 3CD box set of new and previously unissued works from world-renowned composer-bassist William Parker. This set is comprised of four distinctly compelling long-form works—Parker's first composition written for symphony orchestra performance; a commissioned piece for a standing new music ensemble; a “chamber-jazz" song series for voice / soprano sax / piano / bass; a composition created specifically for a particularly diverse Parker assemblage in Universal Tonality mode. The ...
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Darius Jones' New Album To Be Released August 21 On AUM Fidelity
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Steven Joerg
On August 21, 2015, AUM Fidelity will release alto saxophonist-composer Darius Jones' new album, the 5th installment in his ongoing Man'ish Boy epic. This acclaimed series began in 2009 with his debut, Man'ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing), and shall be comprised of nine albums. This release arrives soundly at the mid-way point with aplomb. Le bébé de Brigitte (Lost in Translation) is performed by the Darius Jones Quartet featuring Emilie Lesbros. As ever with Jones’ work, the compositional ...
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Carmell Jones Quartet, 1960
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
For years, trumpeter Carmell Jones was thought to have made his first recording in October 1960 in Los Angeles on a date led by tenor saxophonist Curtis Amy for the Pacific Jazz label. Two months earlier, Jones, at age 24, had left Kansas City and traveled to Los Angeles in search of studio work as a sideman. He recorded with Amy and then Bud Shank before recording his first album as a leader in June 1961—The Remarkable Carmell Jones for ...
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The Bad Plus Joshua Redman Debut Album Out Now
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Michael Ricci
In 2011, The Bad Plus invited saxophonist Joshua Redman to join them for a week of enthusiastically received performances at the Blue Note in New York City. They then played a handful of dates before heading into the studio last year to record their debut album, The Bad Plus Joshua Redman, which is out now on Nonesuch Records in North America (June 8 for the rest of the world). To pick up a copy now, head to your local music ...
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Branford Marsalis Quartet To Reissue "Coltrane's A Love Supreme: Live In Amsterdam"
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Michael Ricci
This historic Marsalis Music CD/DVD, including a full performance by the Branford Marsalis Quartet at Amsterdam's esteemed Bimhuis plus bonus interviews and audio-only disc, will be re-released on May 26 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the original John Coltrane A Love Supreme album, released in February 1965. For Coltrane's A Love Supreme: Live In Amsterdam, label founder Branford Marsalis and his quartet have been captured in a complete performance of John Coltrane's 1964 recorded masterpiece. This legendary suite, which ...
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