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Miles Davis: Ascenseur pour l'eschafaud

Read "Ascenseur pour l'eschafaud" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

With the original soundtrack issued as side one of the 1958 Columbia LP release, Jazz Tracks , the complete session from Miles Davis' soundtrack recording to the 1958 Louis Malle film, Ascenseur pour l'échafaud has been out of print on CD for many years. Now Universal Music France has rectified that situation, reissuing the complete session ...

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Livin

By Various Artists

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2003
Track listing: Introduction; Cash On The Barrelhead

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Private Astronomy

By Geoff Muldaur

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2003
Track listing: Take Your Tomorrow (And Give Me Today); In The Dark; There Ain

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The Beat Suite

By Steve Lacy

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2003
Track listing: Wave Lover, Song, Naked Lunch, Private Sadness, A Ring of Bone, The Mad Yak, Jack's Blues, Agenda, In the Pocket, Mother Goose

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Jazz Memories

By Various Artists

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2003
Track listing: Disc One: 1. Dear Old Southland - Louis Armstrong 2. The Song Is You - Charlie Parker 3. Joy Spring - Clifford Brown & Max Roach 4. Body And Soul - Stan Getz 5. Easy Living - Dinah Washington 6. Blue Monk - Thelonius Monk

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Various Artists: Livin

Read "Livin" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

National Public Radio did more to expose and promote this fine recording than any other outlet. It was featured on Terri Gross’ Fresh Air and Morning Edition. And now it has crossed my path. This is certainly not the first time the Louvin Brothers have revealed themselves to me. Like many of my generation, I heard ...

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Various Artists: Jazz Memories

Read "Jazz Memories" reviewed by Charlie B. Dahan

by Charlie B. Dahan

Hall of Fame manager Earl Weaver once said the most valuable weapon in baseball is the three-run home run; a more perfect analogy couldn’t exist between Weavers' baseball intellect and Universal Music’s recent boxset offering Jazz Memories. The three runs figuratively crossing the plate are the packages’ astute track choices, the groundbreaking photography of the legendary ...

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Geoff Muldaur: Private Astronomy

Read "Private Astronomy" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

It is certainly not by accident that the Universal Classics Group is the label imprint on Geoff Private Astronomy—A Vision of the Music of Bix Beiderbecke. The rarely heard piano compositions of Bix Beiderbecke are majestically transformed into American chamber music by the loving touch and musical panache of another American original, Geoff Muldaur. For release ...

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Steve Lacy: The Beat Suite

Read "The Beat Suite" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

The Beat Suite, alto saxophonist Steve Lacy's latest foray into what he calls lit-jazz, features the poetry of the Beats--jazz lovers all--set to Lacy's music. The Beats (Jack Kerouac, Alan Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, William Burroughs and more) are given a surprisingly accessible treatment here, considering Lacy's reputation for being “out there." Steve Lacy, under ...

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Down the Road

By Van Morrison

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2002
Track listing: Down The Road, Meet Me In The Indian Summer; Steal My Heart Away; Hey Mr. DJ; Talk Is Cheap; Choppin' Wood; What Make An Irish Heart Beat; All Work And No Play; Whatever Happened To PJ Proby; The Beauty Of Days Gone By; Georgia On My Mind; Only A Dream; Man Has To Stumble; Evening Shadows; Fast Train. (Total Time: 67.14).


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