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Barbarisimo

Label: Milan Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Gandinga, Mondongo y Sandunga; Midnight Theme; Scheherazada; Zapateo Cubano; Los Amigos; Hacia Donde; Mambo In; Encuentro; El Manisero; Tony y Jesusito; Mi Ayer; Social Club Buena Vista; Leung

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Toots Thielemans: Do Not Leave Me

Read "Do Not Leave Me" reviewed by Greg Thomas


This digitally remastered release of Do Not Leave Me is a must hear for collectors and fans alike. Toots Thielemans' sound and approach to jazz improvisation on harmonica strongly appeal to both heart and mind, and this 1987 recording amply shows why. A supple, driving rhythm section featuring pianist Fred Hersch, bassist Marc ...

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Toots Thielemans: Do Not Leave Me

Read "Do Not Leave Me" reviewed by Budd Kopman


That sound! That sound, which if you are old enough, you can still remember from the first time you heard it on Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years. The sound, and the man behind it, is the direct musical expression of this phrase from Thielemans' website: “I feel best in that little space between ...

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Various Artists: Hot Club de France

Read "Hot Club de France" reviewed by Germein Linares


The Hot Club de France was more of an appreciation society than an actual club or establishment in France. The group issued newsletters, sponsored radio broadcasts and film appearances, and produced records. A small phenomenon at home, this underground jazz movement soon swelled to worldwide tours and festivals by the late '40s. Milan Records has gone ...

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Frank Emilio Flynn Y Sus Amigos: Barbarisimo

Read "Barbarisimo" reviewed by Germein Linares


This album was originally released in '96 and is being reissued with improved digital clarity by Milan. Barbarisimo finds the legendary Cuban pianist Frank Emilio Flynn with Miguel Angá Diaz and “Changito" on percussion, Orlando Valle on flute, Carlitos del Puerto on bass, and Enrique Lazaga on guiro and claves. Though the first tune, “Gandinga, Mondongo ...

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Duke Ellington and Others: Melinda and Melinda

Read "Melinda and Melinda" reviewed by Florence Wetzel


Woody Allen's new film Melinda and Melinda is an artful combination of comedy and drama, and the soundtrack likewise is a successful weaving of opposites. Allen combines toe-tapping jazz standards and classical music, the jazz cuts focused on pianists.Allen's taste is impeccable: there are three cuts by Duke Ellington ("Take the A Train," “I ...

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Various Artists: Hot Club de France

Read "Hot Club de France" reviewed by David Rickert


The Hot Club de France was a group of avid European jazz fans who swapped records, organized concerts, and sponsored radio broadcasts overseas. Their enthusiasm for jazz carried well into the sixties and seventies, when most people had moved onto other jazz styles and, later, rock 'n' roll. The organization thus served as a haven for ...

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The Winter in Lisbon

Label: Milan Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Opening Theme/ San Sebastian/ Lucretia's Theme/ Magic Summer/ Isthmus/ Magic Summer/ Lisbon/ Magic Summer/ Burma/ Bill's Song/ Final Theme

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Dizzy Gillespie: The Winter in Lisbon

Read "The Winter in Lisbon" reviewed by Ollie Bivens


Recorded in '90, three years before Dizzy Gillespie's death at age 76, this reissued album was a soundtrack for a movie of the same name. Never released in the US, the film shows the jazz legend in the role of a famous jazz musician. The compositions are by Gillespie and executive producer Charles Fishman, along with ...

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Paris Swing

Label: Milan Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Suivez le Chef; Beyond the Sea; C


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