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Ray Nance: Body and Soul

Read "Body and Soul" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
May 14, 2006

Ray Nance recorded Body and Soul, his first album as a leader, in May 1969, almost thirty years after he took over Cootie Williams' trumpet chair in the Duke Ellington orchestra, but only about two years after Billy Strayhorn's death in May 1967, and mere days after Coleman Hawkins' in May 1969. Nance performed “Take the ...

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Stuff Smith: Swingin' Stuff

Read "Swingin' Stuff" reviewed by Ken Dryden

by Ken Dryden
February 6, 2006

Not only was Stuff Smith one of the first prominent jazz violinists, his gritty sound was very distinctive. These live sessions, recorded in 1965 (two years prior to his death), will be of great interest to fans of his work, with the addition of four previously unissued songs. Smith is accompanied by a superb rhythm section ...

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Hot Stuff

By Stuff Smith

Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Skip It / The Girl From Ipanema / Tenderly / Take The A Train / Bugle Blues / I Can't Get Started / Mack The Knife / Blues For Timme / Old Stinkin' Blues / The C-Jam Blues / Caravan / Timme's Blues / Oh, Lady Be Good!

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Stuff Smith: Hot Stuff

Read "Hot Stuff" reviewed by Florence Wetzel

by Florence Wetzel
January 8, 2005

After a long career in the United States, the great jazz violinist Stuff Smith (1909-67) moved to Copenhagen in 1965. Many recordings exist from this fertile period in Smith's career. The new CD Hot Stuff is a reissue of the previously out-of-print Live at Montmarte , recorded in 1965, combined with four tracks from Hot Violins ...

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