Results for "Capitol Records"

I Like Men! / Sugar 'N' Spice

By Peggy Lee

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 1998

The Best Of Miss Peggy Lee

By Peggy Lee

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 1998

Melrose Place Jazz

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 1998

Miles Davis: The Complete Birth of the Cool

by Larry Koenigsberg
October 1, 1998

With the reissue of the Miles Davis BIRTH OF THE COOL sessions, accompanied by recordings of this seminal nonet’s slightly earlier live dates at New York City’s Royal Roost, we now have as complete as possible an account of this still fresh sounding and beautiful music. The array of talent alone is startling: Miles Davis in ...

Teddy Edwards: Sunset Eyes

by Larry Koenigsberg
October 1, 1998

There’s little on veteran Los Angeles-based tenor saxophonist Teddy Edwards’ date which sounds distinctively West Coast but here it is, part of a program of Pacific Jazz limited edition reissues in their West Coast Classics series from Capitol Records. All but one of the tracks feature Leroy Vinnegar on bass and Billy Higgins on drums, the ...

Bud Shank-Bob Cooper / Bob Brookmeyer: Blowin' Country / Traditionalism Revisited

by Jack Bowers
October 1, 1998

If ever a series lived up to its promise and its name, this one surely does. These two discs are part of a set of reissues on Pacific Jazz labeled West Coast Classics — which indeed they are. Also among the early releases (not reviewed here) are memorable sessions by Chet Baker/Russ Freeman, the Jack Montrose ...

Don Ellis: Live At Monterey

by Jim Santella
September 1, 1998

In the liner notes Leonard Feather called Don Ellis “the Stan Kenton of the 1970s." After earning a degree in music composition at Boston University, the trumpeter interned with several big bands, Latin jazz bands, Charles Mingus, and George Russell. Expanding his study of ethnomusicology at UCLA, Ellis formulated ideas about innovative ways to “break the ...

Miles Davis: The Complete Birth of the Cool

by C. Michael Bailey
July 1, 1998

Addendum. Alex Henderson reviewed this re-release in the June issue of AAJ, succinctly honoring it as an important re- release of some of the most essential jazz music produced. I wholeheartedly agree. I always prefer to offer context and that is what I want to add to Mr. Henderson's fine review. Move. The first ...

Bill Perkins / Jack Sheldon: On Stage / The Quartet and The Quintet

by John Sharpe
July 1, 1998

The California jazz scene reached its zenith in the 50's and 60's and Richard Bock's Pacific Jazz label managed to capture most of the music from this “cool school". Artists such as Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Art Pepper and Bud Shank all recorded for Pacific Jazz and they emerged as West Coast masters. Bill Perkins (tenor) ...

Miles Davis: The Complete Birth Of The Cool

by AAJ Staff
June 1, 1998

Since the late 1940s, the term “cool jazz" has been used to describe post-swing jazz that is played with subtlety and restraint rather than aggression. One could argue that “cool jazz" started when Lester Young presented a soft, relaxed alternative to Coleman Hawkins-and to be sure, the seminal Prez was the blueprint for Stan Getz, Zoot ...