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Savoy Jazz Reaches 60, But Looks Beyond

by R.J. DeLuke
February 23, 2004

Every so often someone in jazz has their career resurrected. Different elements feed into that. Good luck; a sudden public “discovery;" Perseverance. Going on in jazz right now, however, is the resurrection of an old tried and true recording label, Savoy Jazz. It's the result of hard work and a desire to maintain classic ...

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Le Dernier Message De Lester Young

By Lester Young

Label: Jazz Anthology
Released: 2002

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The Complete Savoy Recordings

By Lester Young

Label: Savoy Jazz
Released: 2002
Track listing: Disk One With Johnny Guarnieri

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Lester Young: The Complete Savoy Recordings

Read "The Complete Savoy Recordings" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
October 1, 2002

Savoy’s complete compilation travels through two and a half hours of Lester Young’s studio sessions and rehearsal time. There are several takes for many of the numbers, and the listener has the opportunity to weigh which takes really matter. They all sound great. Some amount to false starts, and others appear to have minor balance differences. ...

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Lester Young: The Complete Savoy Recordings

Read "The Complete Savoy Recordings" reviewed by Charlie B. Dahan

by Charlie B. Dahan
September 13, 2002

Savoy Jazz continues to celebrate it’s revival by releasing a complete anthology of Lester ‘Prez” Young’s recordings for Savoy. This collection is divided into two separate and distinct periods in Young’s life. The first to be explored is the recordings he did in a two-week period in 1944 as both a sideman and ...

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Ray Brown: A Jazz Odyssey

by C. Andrew Hovan
June 1, 2002

While it seems that things have come to a point in the history of jazz when many of the music's elder statesmen are leaving us and there are fewer and fewer masters left to pass on the proverbial flame, 75-year-old bassist Ray Brown continues to champion the mainstream cause while inflecting his own music with the ...

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