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Summer Wind

Label: Kingston Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Blues For Groundhogs; Thanks For The Memory; Medley; Hard Times; Put Your Little Foot Right Out; Woogie Boogie; Consider; Street Life; Swamp Fire; Summerwind; Griff And Me; Delaunay's Dilemma.

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Brown/Alexander/Griffin/Drew: Summer Wind

Read "Summer Wind" reviewed by Rob Mariani


This is a collaboration of giants who swing so hard and with such incomparable assuredness that you simply cannot sit still when they are playing. And it all starts with Ray Brown. His huge, woody double-bass sound is unmistakable, as is his impeccable time feeling. So much has been written about this incredible musician; on this ...

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A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2004
Track listing: You Make Me Feel So Young / Come Dance With Me / Learnin' the Blues / Witchcraft / The Tender Trap / Saturday Night / Just in Time / It Happened in Monterrey / I Get a Kick Out of You / All of Me / Birth of the Blues / How About You?

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Walk On

Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Disc One: America the Beautiful; Sunday; Stella By Starlight; Lined with a Groove; Honeysuckle Rose; Fried Pies; You are My Sunshine; That's All' MVT I; MVT II' MVT III; Hello Girls
Disc Two: F.S.R.; Stardust; Evidence; Woogie Boogie; In a Mellow Tone; The Nearness of You; Much in Common; This is Always; Three by Four; Down by the Riverside

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Ray Brown: Walk On

Read "Walk On" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes


Ray Brown (1926-2002) played the bass the same way he lived: with style, a peerless vivacity and a boundless generosity of spirit. Unlike most bass players, when Brown was at the helm the listener always had the sense of his being a true leader, not merely a timekeeper and occasional soloist. The final testament to his ...

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Some Of My Best Friends Are...Singers

Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: I Thought About You; Poor Butterfly; More Than You Know; Little Boy; But Beautiful; At Long Last Love; Skylark; Cherokee; There Is No Greater Love; Imagination; Party's Over; Perfect Blues.

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Walk On

Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Disc 1: America The Beautiful; Sunday; Stella By Starlight; Lined With A Groove; Honeysuckle Rose; Fried Pies; You Are My Sunshine; That

Album

The Easy Way

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2003
Track listing: The Easy Way; Mack The Knife; Come Rain Or Come Shine; Careful; Ray's Time; A Dream; Off Center; Montage; Time Enough.

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Jazz Cello

Label: Abracadabra Music
Released: 2003

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Ray Brown: The Telarc Years

Read "Ray Brown: The Telarc Years" reviewed by Franz A. Matzner


Born October 13, 1926 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, preeminent jazz bassist Ray Brown passed away on July 2, 2002. His career as one of jazz’s foremost players spanned 58 years and has left a recording legacy of literally thousands of albums. His career began early, as a bebopper with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, and continued from ...


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