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Unity

By Larry Young

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Zoltan; Monk's Dream; If; The Moontrane; Softly As A Morning Sunrise; Beyond All Limits.

Album

Out To Lunch!

By Eric Dolphy

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Hat And Beard; Something Sweet, Something Tender; Gazzelloni; Out To Lunch; Straight Up And Down.

Album

The Cape Verdean Blues

By Horace Silver

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: The Cape Verdean Blues; The African Queen; Pretty Eyes; Nutville; Bonita; Mo' Joe.

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Article: Album Review

McCoy Tyner: McCoy Tyner: Extensions

Read "McCoy Tyner: Extensions" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

Languishing off-catalogue for many years, McCoy Tyner's Extensions may be the pianist's most unjustly neglected album. Strange days, for not only is the music ineffably vibrant, but Extensions is the only recording ever to feature Tyner alongside pianist and harpist Alice Coltrane, who replaced him in saxophonist John Coltrane's group in 1966. The album has one ...

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Article: Reassessing

Horace Silver: Song For My Father

Read "Horace Silver: Song For My Father" reviewed by Greg Simmons

by Greg Simmons

Horace Silver Song For My Father Blue Note Records 1963 The nice thing about reissuing classic, fifty year-old records is the benefit of hindsight; delving into a well-established catalog that's been lauded for decades helps ensure that every release will be desirable. The classic Blue Note Records catalog of the ...

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Article: Album Review

Kenny Dorham: Una Mas

Read "Una Mas" reviewed by Greg Simmons

by Greg Simmons

Trumpeter Kenny Dorham's Una Mas was one of 1963's best records. The thought of hearing it reissued on ultra-high quality vinyl by the good folks at Music Matters should make jazz heads swoon. With its melding of hard-bop, bossa nova, and the blues, Una Mas is a prime example of the memorable vamps that Blue Note ...

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Article: Album Review

Sam Rivers: Fuchsia Swing Song

Read "Fuchsia Swing Song" reviewed by Greg Simmons

by Greg Simmons

The Music Matters reissue of saxophonist Sam Rivers' Fuchsia Swing Song is likely the finest pressing of this record ever produced. Remastered from the original two- track tapes, and pressed on two 180 gram 45 rpm LPs, this vinyl is dead quiet, and sonically stunning. The instruments are huge in the soundstage and the clarity blows ...

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Article: Album Review

Jim Tomlinson: The Lyric

Read "The Lyric" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Saxophonist Jim Tomlinson originally released The Lyric in 2005 on his own Token Records label, winning the 2006 BBC Jazz Award for Best Album. It's a skillfully crafted collection of standards, given graceful and stylish life by the husband and wife partnership of Tomlinson and singer Stacey Kent. The recording gets a 2011 mid-price rerelease on ...

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Article: Album Review

Sonny Rollins: Newk's Time

Read "Newk's Time" reviewed by Greg Simmons

by Greg Simmons

Possibly the premier US remastering shop, Music Matters continues to reissue Blue Note albums of the 1950s and 1960s on premium 180 gram, 45rpm vinyl. These recordings are at the heart of the jazz canon and should be heard by any serious student of the music. Now, one of the finest performances in the Blue Note ...


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