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Dexter Gordon: American Classic
by Chris May
Reissued as part of the Warner Jazz Elektra Masters series, tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon's American Classic was originally released in 1982. It was part of a late-period American renaissance enjoyed by Gordon, who, after 15 years in Europe, had made a much lauded return to the New York club scene in the mid 1970s. Gordon's renaissance ...
Ray Charles: Original Album Series
by Chris May
Ray Charles Original Album Series Warner/Rhino 2010 (1957-61) Singer and pianist Ray Charles' period with Atlantic Records, from 1953 to 1960, which is the subject of Warner/Rhino's Original Album Series, was the most exciting in Charles' long and well documented career. Preceding the country music years which began ...
Don Cherry: Hear And Now
by Chris May
That multi-instrumentalist and world jazz pioneer Don Cherry was able to adopt such a beatific countenance for the cover shot of Hear And Now says much for the power of yoga, given the horrors that follow. The disc has now been reissued as part of Warner Jazz's Atlantic Masters series. But non-yogis should heed this warning: ...
Modern Jazz Quartet: Bluesology: The Atlantic Years 1956-1988
by Chris May
Asked to name the most insurrectionary artists associated with the Atlantic label, most jazz fans would probably think first of saxophonists John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. Pianist John Lewis' Modern Jazz Quartet would come much further down the list. Yet in its own, more velvet manner, the MJQ was as radical as Coltrane and Coleman. When ...
Charles Lloyd: Dream Weaver - The Charles Lloyd Anthology - The Atlantic Years 1966-1969
by Chris May
Beautiful and absorbing though most of them are, Charles Lloyd's discs on ECM, with whom the reed player has been recording for almost twenty years, have tended to overshadow the wonderful albums he made with the Charles Lloyd Quartet for Atlantic forty and more years ago.With Atlantic, Lloyd notched up eight LPs recorded in ...
Introducing Roland Kirk
Label: Warner Jazz
Released: 2006
Track listing: The Inflated Tear; A Laugh For Rory; Making Love After Hours; Volunteered Slavery; Carney And Begard Place; Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me; Bye Bye Blackbird; Ain't No Sunshine; The Black And Crazy Blues; Old Rugged Cross; Blacknuss; Freaks For The Festival; Conversation;
