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KENNY DORHAM - Quiet Kenny (1959)
En esta grabación de 1959 le acompaña la sección rítmica que utilizaba John Coltrane en esa época: Tommy Flanagan al piano, Paul Chambers al contrabajo y Art Taylor a la batería. Tres originales se...
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DIZZY REECE - Star Bright (1959)
Dizzy Reece is a pretty obscure name, even among Blue Note fans. He was a young hard bop trumpeter from Jamaica who spent most of the 1950s playing in Europe, recorded four very good records as a...
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DIZZY REECE - Comin' On (1960)
For a short time in the late '50s trumpeter Dizzy Reece was an up-and-coming jazz artist. However, success eluded him and he quietly faded into obscurity, only occasionally releasing material after the...
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DIZZY REECE - Manhattan Project (1978)
It is a bit of a mystery why British trumpeter Dizzy Reece never became much better known. His three Blue Note dates of 1958-60 are of high quality, as is his New Jazz session (Asia Minor) of 1962....
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ERIC RASMUSSEN - School Of Tristano (2007)
Although he was far too young to have studied with Lennie Tristano, alto saxophonist Eric Rasmussen is a firm believer in the late pianist and teacher's approach to jazz, especially playing intricate...
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DOCTOR 3 - Blue (2007)
Tracks01. Close To You (Burt Bacharach)02. Cannonball (Damien Rice)03. My Funny Valentine (Rodgers/Hart)04. Fire And Rain (James Taylor)05. Un Giorno Dopo L'altro (Luigi Tenco)06. The Blower's...
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BERNARDO SASSETTI - Nocturno (2002)
Bernardo Sassetti is virtually unknown to all but the most fanatical of American jazz fans, though they have almost undoubtedly heard him play -- whether with Curtis Fuller, Benny Golson, Paquito...
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BERNARDO SASSETTI w/ PAQUITO D'RIVERA - Salsetti (1994)
Tracks1. Choradinho2. Prelúdio À Memória De António Lauro3. Sons De Brasil4. Yelélé Candombê5. Desencontro6. Uma Simpática7. Jornada Sem Fim8. Salsetti9. Homenagem a Heitor Villa-LobosPAQUITO D'RIVERA...
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BILLY HARPER - Trying To Make Heaven My Home (1979)
Trying To Make Heaven is a 1979 quintet recording of the incendiary tenor saxophonist Billy Harper, in an extended, hard-blowing session, strong on Harper’s signature tune Love On The Sudan. The Sudan...
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BLUE MITCHELL - Down With It (1965)
It's about time that everyone gets down with Blue Mitchell.During an era when hard bop giants roamed the earth, trumpeter Blue Mitchell was overshadowed by his more brash contemporaries such as Lee...
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BILLY HART·ETHAN IVERSON·MARK TURNER·BEN STREET - All Our Reasons (2012)
In 2003, this group was called the Ethan Iverson/Mark Turner Quartet. Master drummer Billy Hart asked if he could borrow the band's name as his own for a show in his hometown of Montclair, New Jersey....
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CHRIS POTTER QUARTET - Lift·Live At The Village Vanguard (2004)
Chris Potter's new Live at the Village Vanguard album starts jarringly enough. There is a particular knotty, unaccompanied solo saxophone intro to drummer Bill Stewart's "7.5" played via tape delay by...
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CHRIS POTTER - Traveling Mercies (2002)
Chris Potter’s “Traveling Mercies,” the followup to his highly acclaimed “Gratitude” album, is in many ways better, but in all ways more adventurous. “Gratitude” paid saxophone debts to the past with...
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BILLY BANG·WILLIAM PARKER - Medicine Buddha (2014)
There is history, as regards the rather obvious references (not only in the dedication) to the capital Revolutionary Ensemble of Leroy Jenkins & C., but largely in the performance of the singular...
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BILLY BANG QUINTET - Above & Beyond (2007)
This is a remarkable album on several levels. Recorded at a performance by the Billy Bang Quintet at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, MI on April 28, 2003 and captured using a...
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FRANK LOWE·BILLY BANG QUARTET - One For Jazz (2001)
Tracks1 Echoes (Billy Bang) 2 Smoke & Mirrors (Billy Bang) 3 Times Squared (Frank Lowe) 4 Slamma Jamma (Billy Bang) 5 Show Real (Frank Lowe) 6 Zoom Tipsky (Frank Lowe) 7 Aliens (Billy Bang) 8 I...
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PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE - Miro (2008)
Paal was born in Molde, Norway, Dec 24. 1974, and raised at a jazz club in Stavanger, run by his parents. It was natural to choose his fathers drums as his instrument and jazz as his work. From 1990 on...
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HENRY KAISER & WADADA LEO SMITH - Yo Miles! (1998)
Like the career of Miles Davis himself -- and, in particular, the part of his career to which this two-disc set pays homage -- this album presents a maddeningly uneven collection of material and...
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STEVE SWALLOW - Swallow (1991)
In this self-titled set, bassist and composer Steve Swallow proves his strengths in both capacities. Leading a septet that includes Steve Kuhn on piano, Carla Bley on organ, Karen Mantler on...
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BLUE MITCHELL - The Thing To Do (1964)
Blue Mitchell was born and raised in Miami, Florida. He began playing trumpet in high school, where he acquired his nickname, Blue. After high school he played in the rhythm and blues ensembles of Paul...
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