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Slappin' That Bass: Earl May, Jim Donica, Esperanza Spalding & John Menegon

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Earl May Swinging The Blues Arbors 2007 Jim Donica Stepping Up Apria 2007 Esperanza Spalding Junjo Ayva 2006 John Menegon Soul Advice ...

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Joe's 3 and Freddie's 5

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Joe Giglio Trio 3 Spirits Bella Firenze2007 Bucky Pizzarelli 5 For Freddie: Bucky Pizzarelli's Tribute to Freddie Green Arbors 2007 Sound sparks fly even before guitarist Joe ...

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Nancy Wilson: Turned To Blue

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Call Nancy Wilson an old fashioned singer. She sings on key. You can understand every lyric. There's no trickery, just putting the song out there straight ahead. Her careful considerations of what she's singing result in a crispy heat that resides in the domain of the peerless Carmen McRae's elegant “less is more style.

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Charles Earland and Houston Person: Black Talk! and You Taught My Heart To Sing

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Charles Earland Black Talk! Fantasy 2006 Houston Person/Bill Charlap You Taught My Heart To Sing HighNote 2006 Black Talk! is a now-classic, funky 1969 session with Charles ...

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Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life & The Stanley Dance Sessions

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Various Artists Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life Blue Note 2007 Billy Strayhorn/Johnny Hodges The Stanley Dance Sessions Definitive 2006 The happy sounds of Bill Charlap's sparkling rendition of ...

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Buddy DeFranco: The Stick Around Kid

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At 83, he continues to practice on the clarinet every day so as to not “lose that edge." The countless artists whom he has played and recorded with include Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Art Blakey, Roy Eldridge, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, Tal Farlow, Billie Holiday, Charlie Barnet, Count Basie, Stan ...

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Young and Foolish and Frances Faye Sings and Russell Garcia Conducts

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Fionna Duncan Young and Foolish Tentoten 2006 Frances Faye Frances Faye Sings and Russell Garcia Conducts Bethlehem-Lone Hill Jazz 2006 Largely unknown in this country, husky-voiced vocalist ...

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Mort Weiss: The B3 and Me and Organic Vibes

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Mort Weiss The B3 and Me SMS Jazz 2006 Joey DeFrancesco Organic Vibes Concord 2006 For those listeners who regret the scarcity of the clarinet as a ...

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Jim Tomlinson / Stacey Kent: The Lyric

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Brimming with pop and jazz standards, The Lyric (winner of the BBC's 2006 Jazz Album of the Year award) launches with Brit tenor sax man Jim Tomlinson and trio's warm breezy take on “Manha de Carnival, on which pianist David Newton, bassist Dave Chamberlain and drummer Matt Skelton provide very tasty punctuation. Easy bossa is a ...

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Djangology: Swing Guitar; A Tribute To Gypsy Swing; Hot Club of Detroit; In Solitaire

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Raphael Fays Swing Guitar Artpop-Le Chant Du Monde 2006 Harri Stojka A Tribute to Gypsy Swing Zoho 2006 Hot Club of Detroit Hot Club of Detroit Mack Avenue ...


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