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Django Reinhardt: Memorial

Read "Memorial" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert

When Django Reinhardt switched from acoustic to electric guitar, his fans, feeling betrayed, called him “Judas." However, he later used this new instrument to record Blonde On Blonde, often considered one of the greatest rock records of all time. Actually, that was Bob Dylan. But Reinhardt's electric period, which encompassed the last few years ...

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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Live! at Slug's, NYC

Read "Live! at Slug's, NYC" reviewed by Samuel Chell

by Samuel Chell

The drums and bass are miked too “hot," and the horns occasionally distort, but there are at least two compelling reasons to listen to this 2006 release of a 1968 on-location Messengers date featuring an unusual Blakey lineup. (No doubt some jazz fans will recognize Slug's as the unpretentious Bowery jazz saloon where Lee Morgan was ...

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Various Artists: Atlas Jazz Explosion

Read "Atlas Jazz Explosion" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert

Rhythm & blues was a powerful musical force in the '50s, influencing the direction that many jazz musicians followed and paving the way for rock and roll. There was quite a market for R&B 45s, and small labels featuring eager young unknowns were able to carve out a niche in at least some jukeboxes. Many of ...

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Pee Wee Russell: Portrait Of Pee Wee

Read "Portrait Of Pee Wee" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert

Pee Wee Russell was an early pioneer, a Dixieland veteran, and an inspired clarinetist with an unusual voice. No less than Gene Krupa once said that he had “the most fabulous musical mind... I've never run into anybody who had that much musical talent. During the fifties, long after his style of music had fallen out ...

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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Live at Slug's, NYC

Read "Live at Slug's, NYC" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert

Many of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers left the group to build successful careers of their own. However, in between Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter and the Marsalises was this curious 1968 band, made up largely of talented unknowns. This particular version of the band never made it into the studio, and this live recording from Slug's ...

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Various: Jazz Is Love: Timeless Songs For Lovers

Read "Jazz Is Love: Timeless Songs For Lovers" reviewed by Andrew Velez

by Andrew Velez

This mix of fifteen sides from the '50s and '60s is studded with gems, mostly from our greatest songwriters--the likes of the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, each offering an enduringly upbeat report from the trenches of love. Most of the artists are now gone, but very much worth remembering or becoming newly acquainted with. ...

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Bamba Samba Bossa Nova

By Charlie Byrd

Label: Empire Musicwerks
Released: 2005
Track listing: Bamba Samba (Bossa Nova); Original #2; Love Song Ballad; Prelude A La Cha Cha; Summer Sequence Part 1; Summer Sequence Part 2; Summer Sequence Part 3 Summer Sequence Part 4.

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The Everest Years

By Charlie Shavers

Label: Empire Musicwerks
Released: 2005
Track listing: Girl Of My Dreams; September In the Rain; What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry; Bye Bye Blackbird; Pennies From Heaven; The Best Things In Life Are Free; Taking A Chance On Love; In A Little Spanish Town; My Old Kentucky Home; Blues For Choo Loos; All Of Me; Russin Lullaby; It's All Right With Me; Loch Lomond; Undecided; That Was Yesterday; I Will Follow You; Chin Up Ladies; Independence Hora 20. As Simple As That.

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The Everest Years

By Wild Bill Davis

Label: Empire Musicwerks
Released: 2005
Track listing: The Madison Time (Part II); Blue Skies; Soft Winds; Organ Grinder's Swing; Flying Home; Independence Hora; I Will Follow You; That Was Yesterday; Milk & Honey; Let's Not Waste A Moment; Dis Heah; Angel Eyes; What's New; Like Young; Wenkie; 'Round Midnight; Blues for Joe; Cubato; and more.

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Chubby Takes Over

By Chubby Jackson

Label: Empire Musicwerks
Released: 2005
Track listing: Loch Lamond; Blowin' Up A Storm; A Ballad for Jai; When the Saints Go Marching In; Oh Look at Me Now; Mt. Everest; Yes Indeed, It's Delovely; Cover the Earth With Your Loveliness, Alexander's Ragtime Band; Woodshed; Hail, Hail, The Herd's All Here.


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