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GEORGE COLEMAN / TETE MONTOLIU DUO - Meditation (1977)
A pairing of tenor saxophonist George Coleman and pianist Tete Montoliu might at first seem odd, but this is a remarkably coherent album in nearly every respect. Coleman and Montoliu are each at the...
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TETE MONTOLIU - Lush Life (1971)
Recorded at the same solo session that resulted in That's All, this set finds the great pianist Tete Montoliu performing his fresh and virtuosic intepretations of six standards, plus two versions of...
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TETE MONTOLIU - Songs For Love (1971)
This 1971 studio date features Tete Montoliu alone at the piano; the pianist is in great form throughout the date. The most familiar songs include an intricate hard bop rendition of "Here's That Rainy...
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TETE MONTOLIU - Tootie's Tempo (1976
Tracks1. Invitation (B. Kaper)2. Love Man (Sherman/Rairez)3. Some Other Blues (Coltrane)4. Lament (J.J. Johnson)5. Tootie's Tempo (T. Montoliu)6. Darn That Dream (Delange/Van Heusen)TETE MONTOLIU...
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ULF WAKENIUS QUARTET - Live (2000)
For his second album for the Dragon label, Swedish guitarist Ulf Wakenius chose a set of songs of which most are dedications to jazz artists, present and past, he admires. The first cut, "The Greatest...
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VINNY GOLIA QUARTET - Sfumato (2005)
Here is an item in Vinny Golia's discography that gives a global sense to his life as an artist. Before being a musician, Golia was a painter. A very particular one, trying to translate to color what...
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BARRE PHILLIPS / BERTRAM TURETZKY / VINNY GOLIA - Trignition (1999)
Get two of the finest bassists in the world together in a studio, throw in a fellow who needs to make a half-dozen trips to cart in all his horns, and one has the makings of a good session of...
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VASSILIS TSABROPOULOS - Melos (2008)
While the composer, performer and listener approach any given piece of music from differing perspectives, each needs the others for a work to become fully actualized. Improvisation combines the first...
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WALT DICKERSON - Sense of Direction (1961)
A Sense of Direction, Walt Dickerson's second album as a leader, was recorded just two months after his debut, and it opened up a side of his playing not so much in evidence before. Having firmly set...
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WALT DICKERSON - This Is Walt Dickerson (1961)
Walt Dickerson never got quite the credit he deserved for pioneering a modernist approach to the vibes during the early '60s, aligning himself with the emerging "new thing" scene and expanding the...
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WALT DICKERSON - Tell Us Only The Beautiful Things (1975)
Philadelphia vibraphonist Dickerson died last year (2008), after a career that saw him heralded as a 1960s avant-garde innovator and then so neglected that he dropped out from 1965-75, and appeared...
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WALT DICKERSON - Shades of Love (1977)
Tracks1. Infinite Love2. Love Is You3. Interim Love4. Infinite Love [Take 2]WALT DICKERSON vibraphoneAll music composed by Walt DickersonRecorded November 6, 1977 at Media Sound Studios, New...
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WALT DICKERSON - To My Son (1978)
Walt Dickerson made an impact when he first emerged in the early '60s -- he won the Down Beat Critic's Poll as New Star in 1962 -- but as the years passed he became much less visible. Dickerson...
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WALT DICKERSON / SIRONE / ANDREW CYRILLE - Life Rays (1997)
For more than twenty years, Walt Dickerson has been one of the true jazz marvels. Not only the swift abundance of his idea, and the unfailing accuracy with which he projects them, but also their...
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VINNY GOLIA - A Gift For The UnusuaL; Music For Contrabass Saxophone (2005)
West coast sax maven Vinny Golia brings out a set where he plays the tubax, a new type of contrabass saxophone designed by German inventor Benedict Eppelsheim. A standard contrabass saxophone is a...
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BERT TURETZKY / VINNY GOLIA / GEORGE LEWIS - Triangulation II (2010)
The trio at work here consists of three giants of improvised music. On trombone, George Lewis has few peers; multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia has been a rock of the Los Angeles free-jazz scene for...
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RICKY FORD - Hard Groovin' (1989)
The consistent tenor-saxophonist Ricky Ford, who was often the youngest player on the bandstand when he first emerged in the late '70s, is easily the oldest musician on this energetic modern bop album....
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RICKY FORD - Loxodonta Africana (1977)
It is nice to know that the fundamental ideal of jazz musicians listening hard to each other, reaching out for each other aurally, complementing and inspiring each other in superior musical...
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ULF WAKENIUS - Love Is Real (2008)
Love Is Real was not intended as a memorial to Esbjörn Svensson-the disc was recorded in 2007-but it takes on added poignancy since the brilliant Swedish pianist died in a diving accident this past...
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TIGRAN AMASYAN - New Era (2006)
At twenty-one, pianist Tigran Hamasyan has already done much to launch his name into the world of emergent young lions. He has toured throughout Europe, moving beyond his native Armenia to take prizes...
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