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MYRA MELFORD - Life Carries Me This Way (2013)
Released after a quarter century of recordings as a bandleader or collaborator, 2013's Life Carries Me This Way is Myra Melford's first solo piano album. In a sense, the album presents Melford's...
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MARC COPLAND·JOHN ABERCROMBIE - Jazz-Club "La Spirale", Fribourg 1996
Tracks1. snowfall 2. announcement Marc Copland3. ralph's piano waltz (Ralph Towner)4. announcement Marc Copland 5. polka dots and moonbeams (Jimmy Van Heusen) 6. announcement Marc Copland 7. au...
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GEORGE ADAMS·DON PULLEN QUARTET - City Gates (1983)
By 1983, the quartet was at a musical peak, and this may be their best recording. Everything gels: The choice of tunes, the solos, and the arrangements all come together to produce one of the leading...
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GEORGE ADAMS·DON PULLEN - Decisions (1984)
This one has all the verve that characterized the best of the George Adams-Don Pullen Quartet's albums, without pandering to the commercialism that some of these recordings exuded. There are some...
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GARY PEACOCK·MARILYN CRISPELL - Azure (2013)
Who leads a project is often nothing more than a matter of optics. Bassist Gary Peacock's name may come first on the cover of Azure, but there's no doubt that this is a collaborative affair, with...
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GARY PEACOCK - Voices (1971)
Tracks1. Ishi2. Bonsho3. Hollows4. Voice From The Past5. Requiem6. Ae. Ay.GARY PEACOCK bassMASABUMI KIKUCHI piano, electric pianoHIROSHI MURAKAMI drums (1, 3, 5, 6)MASAHIKO TOGASHI drums (1-4,...
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GARY PEACOCK - Tales of...Gary Peacock (2006)
Tracks01. Blues (Ornette Coleman)02. Thyme Time (Gary Peacock/Peter Erskine)03. Only Yesterday (Gary Peacock)04. Major Major (Gary Peacock)05. Winterlude (Gary Peacock)06. Fig Foot (Paul Bley)07....
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DAVE STRYKE - Blue Strike (2011)
Jared Gold is an American jazz organist who plays the Hammond B-3 organHe attended William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey. In 1988 he won the Governor's Award for Jazz Performance in New...
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PAUL BLEY - Open, To Love (1973)
Despite the fact that pianist and composer Paul Bley had been a renowned and innovative jazzman for nearly 20 years, 1973 saw the release of his most mature and visionary work. This is one of the most...
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LEE KONITZ QUARTET - Jazz Nocturne (1994)
Although never a poll winner, altoist Lee Konitz has had a more productive and consistently stimulating career than most of his contemporaries, never afraid to improvise fairly freely in his relaxed...
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BRAD MEHLDAU - Highway Rider (2010)
For a pianist who not only demonstrated remarkable promise, but actually began delivering on it at a very early stage in his career with what would ultimately become his five-part Art of the Trio...
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NEW GARY BURTON QUARTET - Guided Tour (2013)
On its sophomore offering for Mack Avenue Records, the New Gary Burton Quartet reveals the musical maturity that naturally occurs when a disparate but extremely gifted group of players locks in as a...
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CYRUS CHESTNUT - Quartet (2010)
Cyrus Chestnut, one of the world’s most celebrated jazz pianists, unveils new original compositions on Cyrus Chestnut Quartet, on WJ3 Records. This is the first time for Chestnut, who’s released over...
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NICOLAS MASSON·RUSS JOHNSON·EIVIND OPSVIK·MARK FERBER - Awake (2002)
In 1992, Nicolas Masson meets Cecil Taylor in New York and takes lessons from Frank Lowe and Makanda Ken McIntyre. Back home in Geneva, he enrolls in the Jazz program at the Conservatoire Populaire de...
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NICOLAS MASSON - Yellow (A Little Orange) (2006)
Tracks1. Good Buddy2. Yellow (A Little Orange)3. Zelig4. Gingko5. Sleepless6. Shabu7. Spurv8. Gnarly9. So LongEIVIND OPSVIK bassGERALD CLEAVER drumsNICOLAS MASSON tenor saxophone, bass clarinetRUSS...
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DARK [Mark Nauseef w/L. Shankar·David Torn] - Tamna Voda (1988)
TAMNA VODA completes the multicultural adventure cycle begun on DARK's coruscating debut. Percussionist extraordinaire Mark Nauseef, guitarist Miroslav Tadic, bassist Mark Sims, and second drummer...
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MIKE NOCK TRIO & NZTrio - Vicissitudes (2016)
Mike Nock (ONZM) is an internationally recognised master of jazz. His trio, with Christchurch-born bassist Brett Hirst and Australian drummer James Waples, is one of the top modern jazz groups in...
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McCOY TYNER - Supertrios (1977)
This album features the great pianist McCoy Tyner with two separate trios, either bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams or bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Jack DeJohnette. The former session,...
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CHICK COREA·EDDIE GOMEZ·PAUL MOTIAN - Further Explorations (2012)
Although there really hasn't been another pianist quite like Bill Evans since his untimely death in 1980, Chick Corea was probably the one best suited to make this fine and heartfelt tribute album....
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BRIAN BLADE & THE FELLOWSHIP BAND - Season of Changes (2008)
Brian Blade last led a recording session with his band Fellowship for Blue Note in 2000. In the interim he's become the busiest drummer in showbiz. Blade has been playing and touring with everyone...
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