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Sax/Piano Duos: All or Nothing at All & Vienna Dialogues

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Armen Donelian/Marc Mommaas Album Title #1 Sunnyside 2006 Dave Liebman/Bobby Avey Vienna Dialogues Zoho 2006 These albums not only share a format, the sax/piano duo, but also ...

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Sonny Rollins: The Essential Sonny Rollins: The RCA Years

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Sonny Rollins' worst enemy is Sonny Rollins. The recorded Rollins can never compete with the “live Rollins. The tenor saxophonist can blow you away in concert, at least if you're lucky--and more times than not you will be, since there are tens of thousands of jazz fans and scores of critics out there who have had ...

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Mel Bay Guitars: A Second Look & The Chase

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Vic Juris A Second Look Mel Bay 2005 Dave Stryker The Chaser Mel Bay 2006 Guitarists Vic Juris and Dave Stryker live across the street from each ...

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Dan Blake: The Party Suite

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Dan Blake's orchestral approach to the jazz quartet is reminiscent of both early New Orleans combos and the quartets of Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan and Ornette Coleman. His composing suggests the influences of Mingus and Herbie Nichols, whose “Spinning Song is the album's only cover. A multi-reed player, Blake's most distinctive instrument is ...

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Bill Evans: The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings 1961

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This 45th anniversary issue of all five June 25, 1961 sets by pianist Bill Evans' trio with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian is rightly considered the crowning preserved achievement of one of the most influential piano trios in jazz history. This group was the coming out of a new, sensitive, interactive mode, a new ...

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Mary Lou Williams: Mary Lou's Mass, My Mama Pinned a Rose on Me, Zodiac Suite Revisited, The Lady Who Swings the Band

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Mary Lou Williams Mary Lou's Mass Smithsonian Folkways 2006 Mary Lou Williams My Mama Pinned a Rose on Me OJC 2005 Mary Lou Williams Collective Zodiac Suite Revisited ...

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Duke Ellington: The Piano Player, The Treasury Shows, The Complete Gus Wildi Recordings

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Duke Ellington The Piano Player Storyville 2005 Duke Ellington The Treasury Shows Storyville 2005 Duke Ellington The Complete Gus Wildi Recordings Lone Hill Jazz 2006

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Cannonball Adderley: In New York, In Europe, Domination

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Cannonball Adderley In New York OJC 2005 Cannonball Adderley In Europe Blue Note 2005 Cannonball Adderley Domination Blue Note 2005 Alto saxophonist ...

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George Wein: A Life in Music

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No matter what you think of the jazz festival, you can't think of it without thinking of George Wein. In 1954 he presented the first Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, and it became the template for the modern jazz festival. Wein went on to bring the jazz festival concept to New York, where it has ...

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Herbie Mann & Phil Woods: Beyond Brooklyn

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Herbie Mann and Phil Woods met when they were two barely adult beboppers jamming together at a joint called Tony's Bar on Flatbush Ave. in Brooklyn in 1951. A couple years later, Woods would play on Mann's Yardbird Suite LP. They finally shared the front line on an album again with this CD, the last Mann ...


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