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With their new formation, the three experienced artists, who are well established in Europe's jazz world, prove that the greatest quality in jazz is still the immediacy of the moment - without a net or a false bottom! Organic melodic and rhythmic structures, surprises and the willingness ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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The only public concert I played the entire year of the covid pandemic lockdown was a virtual one for broadcast on the internet. Mike, Ed and I imagined being on stage together and presented a program just as if we were playing in front of an audience of real people. There were no second takes, no overdubs, no corrections; ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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All Things Are, a collaborative encounter between pianist Kevin Hays, bassist Ben Street and drummer Billy Hart. Performed on the bandstand of an otherwise empty Smoke Jazz Club, the album features seven pieces, six composed by Hays, who contributes three original melodies and three ingeniously crafted ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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Schizophrenia - The Yang Project
Leaping twenty feet forward, this extraordinarily diverse collection of tunes captures the full range of keyboardist Bobby Sparks’ expansive vocabulary and inexhaustible spirit. From slamming funk to slow-grooving soul ballads to forays into straight ahead jazz, fusion, orchestral and world music, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
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"The colorful cover artwork complements the colorful music by flutist Dave Valentin.Kalahari has ballads that are beautiful and upbeat tunes heavy on syncopated beats with tons of Latin percussion. Included on the album are Wayne Shorter's "Fall" and Sonny Rollins' ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Latin Jazz
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The Alan Broadbent Trio's previous Savant release, New York Notes, received rave reviews in the international press. The Guardian (UK) wrote, "The bubbling stream of notes is both unpredictable and inevitable, and following it's twists and turns is a joy." ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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The George Colman Quintet in Baltimore (Remastered)
One of jazz’s most powerful tenor saxophonists is heard at his freewheeling, unfettered best on The George Coleman Quintet in Baltimore, a hitherto unheard live recording due from Reel to Real Recordings as an exclusive. The high-energy set, captured at the Famous Ballroom in Baltimore on May 23, 1971, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
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The title of What Comes Next, the latest album by guitarist Peter Bernstein, certainly echoes a question that we’ve all been asking ourselves in recent months. Locked away, wary of leaving the house during a global pandemic, divided by politics and protests, all during the most vital ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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The Alan Broadbent Trio's previous Savant release, New York Notes (SCD 2166), received rave reviews in the international press. The Guardian (UK) wrote, “The bubbling stream of notes is both unpredictable and inevitable, and following its twists and turns is a joy.” Couleurs Jazz (France) proclaimed, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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Half Speed ReMasters HiRes Re-Issue: Tattoo You is the 16th British and 18th American studio album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1981. The follow-up to Emotional Rescue, it proved to be a big critical and commercial success. A very popular album upon release, it is the last Rolling Stones ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
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Journey to the Mountain of Forever
"Is Binker Golding the new Sonny Rollins? The new Coltrane? Or both? Like those R&B-rooted sax colossi, Golding and powerhouse drummer Moses Boyd shake ass first, stroke beards second" - MOJO"...A rollicking trip through a landscape rich in the sounds of now — funk, grime, hip hop — and those of a multidimensional future" ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
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For decades, the Los Angeles jazz community has been fortunate to have bass player Henry 'The Skipper' Franklin in their midst. He's a paragon of jazz consistency, as trusty as they come. The best musicians living in the area or visiting the area have called on this technically-assured bass player for gigs and/ ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
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Brand New Feeling (Remastered)
The Chicago-based jazz sextet known as The Awakening was in the front line of the second tier of jazz combos active in the first half of the 1970s, amongst the Revolutionary Ensemble and the low-profile bands of, respectively, Sunny Murray, Hadley Caliman, Hampton ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bob
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Abstractions of Reality Past and Incredible Feathers
Binker Golding truly is the saxophonist of the moment. A highly skilled musician, accomplished composer, and occasional conductor, Golding has performed with everyone from Moses Boyd and Yussef Dayes to Evan Parker and Denys Baptise. 'Abstractions of Reality Past and Incredible Feathers' is his first quartet ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
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Flanagans Shenanigans (Remastered)
Tommy Flanagan is an excellent example of the artists honoured by the the JAZZPAR project. Tommy Flanagan has played and recorded with Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane and Ella Fitzgerald – and that’s just for starters. In each of many playing situations he’s found himself in, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
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In the Way Out West trio you will meet musicians Atle Nymo (sax), Magne Thormodsæter (bass) and Hermund Nygård (drums). The trio started a few years ago as a tribute to Sonny Rollins, and plays music based on Rollins' rich trio repertoire. Sonny Rollins created a new expression when in 1957 he chose to omit the ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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Late Spot At Scott's (Live At Ronnie Scott's Club, London, UK / 1962 / Remastered 2019)
Belated Christmas presents for fans of the late, great Brit-jazz tenorist Tubby Hayes as Universal have announced the arrival of selected remastered albums. The tapes were in perfect condition and had never been played since the recording, with reports ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
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