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Allen Eager: An Ace Face
by Nic Jones
Allen Eager was one of those swing-through-bop tenor saxophonists who seem to have walked this earth in abundance in the late 1940s. An Ace Face is a two-disc set from that period, chronicling work both under his leadership and as a sideman. Within the canon of those players Eager was arguably the one who got closest ...
Shorty Rogers: Shorty Goes To Hollywood
by Nic Jones
This is volume three in an ongoing series devoted to the music of trumpeter Shorty Rogers, released by Giant Steps. The temptation to say that what's on this set is unlikely to win any new converts to his music is great, but while it might be apposite the case is a little more complicated than that. ...
Joe Harriott: Killer Joe!
by Nic Jones
Jamaican-born alto saxophonist, bandleader and composer Joe Harriott was destined to become a seminal figure in the evolution of British jazz in the 1960s. This two-disc collection of his earlier work in Britain is a primer in just what a gifted instrumentalist he was, covering as it does a range of his work from the mid-1950s--he ...
Stan Getz & The Lighthouse All Stars: Live
by Nic Jones
Tenor saxophonist, Stan Getz, had a way with music that was always pretty uncompromising. Capable of producing a tone of exceptional beauty, he often relied on it to disguise a certain imperious quality in his work. If this was indeed the case, then it was prevalent for the majority of his career. However, musically speaking, he ...
Ronnie Scott: Birth Of A Legend
by David Rickert
Ronnie Scott stares out at you from the cover shot on Birth of a Legend with a confident glare, as if to dare you to suggest that the Brits couldn't play as well as their American counterparts overseas. This two-disc set of the saxophonist's various musical exploits indeed proves that across the pond in the forties ...
Cool One
Label: Giant Step Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Do It!; All For You; I Only Have Eyes For You; Four Brothers; Sultana; Nutty Pine; Wrought Of Iron; Iranic; Someone To Watch Over Me; A Ring-Tail Monkey; Chirpin
Birth of A Legend: Oscar Peterson Historic Carnegie Hall Concerts
Label: Giant Step Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Fine and Dandy; I Only Have Eyes For You; Carnegie Blues; Gai; Padovane; Sweet Georgia Brown; Cheek To Cheek; C Jam Blues; Tenderly; Seven Comes Eleven; Lollabrigida; Pompton Turnpike; Swingin' On A Star; Love For Sale; Swingin' Till The Girls Come Home.
Tal Farlow Guitar Genius: The LA Sessions
By Tal Farlow
Label: Giant Step Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: CD1: I Like To Recognise The Tune; Strike Up The Band; Autumn In New York; And She Remembers Me; Little Girl Blue; Have You Met Miss Jones?; Tal
Birth Of A Legend
By Ronnie Scott
Label: Giant Step Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: CD1: Them That Has, Gets; Ad Lib Frolic; Scrubber Time; Sunny Side Of The Street; Lady Be
Good; Boppin
Birth of a Legend: Historic Carnegie Hall Concerts
Label: Giant Step Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Fine And Dandy; I Only Have Eyes For You; Carnegie Blues; Gai; Padovane; Sweet Georgia Brown; Cheek To Cheek; C Jam Blues; Tenderly; Seven Comes Eleven; Lollobridgida; Pompton Turnpike; Swingin' On A Star; Love For Sale; Swingin' 'Till The Girls Come Home.
