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Solo, Duo & Trio

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2000
Track listing: Sweet Sue, Just You*

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Randy Weston: Solo, Duo & Trio

Read "Solo, Duo & Trio" reviewed by Derek Taylor


Randy Weston continues to be a vibrant and creative force in jazz, so much so that it’s sometimes easy to forget that he’s been at it for over five decades. While his early work often isn’t as readily available as the material he’s done more recently much of it slowly making it back into print. This ...

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Khepera

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 1999
Track listing: Creation; Anu Anu; The Shrine; The Shang; Prayer Blues; Boram Xam Xam; Portrait of Cheikh Anta Diop; Niger Mambo; Mystery of Love.Collective

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Another Blue

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Chant For Peace Eternal; This Is For Albert; Evening Prayer; Hallucinations; Another Blue; You Go To My Head; It’s Already All About Love; A Night In Tunisia; Crossings; Pileau; Solar.

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Randy Weston: Khepera

Read "Khepera" reviewed by Jim Santella


Like Ellington and Monk together, pianist Randy Weston blends beautiful harmony with plenty of surprises. His impressionistic album comes after intensive studies of ancient rhythms from around the world. Gathering from the spiritual or ritualistic to enjoyable jazz grooves, Weston surrounds traditional Chinese and African scenes with familiar images. His band is such that it can ...

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The Modern Art Of Jazz

Label: Verve Records
Released: 1998

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Khepera

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 1998

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How High the Moon

Label: Biograph Records
Released: 1998

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Randy Weston: Khepera

Read "Khepera" reviewed by Robert Spencer


Randy Weston is in his Seventies, and Khepera is a mature recapitulation of his lifelong musical concerns. His playing is as strong as ever, as individualistic and yet redolent of Ellington and Monk as ever; his compositions are as tightly focused and yet as variegated as ever. The playing is superb. Weston's piano breathes as one ...

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Randy Weston: How High the Moon

Read "How High the Moon" reviewed by Joel Roberts


Randy Weston has long been one of the most compelling and original composers and performers in jazz (as well as a personal favorite). Decades before “world music" became a trendy marketing category, Weston was integrating American bebop with the musical traditions of West Africa to make some of the most spirited and spiritual music in all ...


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