Harold Land Quintet
The Peace-Maker (Verve By Request Series LP) [ Verve / LP - released 10/Nov/2023 ] Released on the Cadet label in 1968, The Peace-Maker was the first of ten collaborations between the great tenor saxophonist Harold Land and vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson. With a group including pianist Joe Sample, the session results in a lively,... |
KEN WILSON
Music For Woodwinds Zephyr Wind Quintet, NZSO, Peter Scholes, Ben Hoadley, Adrianna Lis, Andrew Uren [ Atoll Records / CD - released 26/Jan/2018 ] Ken Wilson's works are played by a variety of performers including the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and the Zephyr Quintet. |
The Miles Davis Quintet
The New Miles Davis Quintet (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 6/Oct/2023 ] The album is the debut record by the Miles Davis Quintet, and generally known by the original title Miles as indicated on the cover. It features the same personnel that played on the classic 1956 sessions. |
The Miles Davis Quintet
Steamin' With The Miles Davis Quintet (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 27/Oct/2023 ] Featuring an all-star personnel of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones, Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet is one of the four albums that came out of the two legendary 1956 sessions of the... |
New Bop Quintet (Mike Booth, Kevin Field, Pete France, Frank Gibson Jr, Cameron McArthur)
NBQ [ CD - released 4/Jun/2021 ] The New Bop Quintet shine a fresh light on the key aspects of Hard Bop - a close link with the blues, a strong rhythmical presence and strong melody lines. NBQ revisit the Hard Bop ethos with stunning original tunes and a familiar yet fresh take on... |
GYORGY LIGETI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ligeti - String Quartets 1 & 2 / Vocal works Artemis Quartet / Barry Tuckwell Wind Quintet / Groupe Vocal de France, Guy Reibel [ EMI 20th Century Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] Lux Aeterna put Ligeti on the map for the wider public when Stanley Kubrick appropriated it for its unearthly effect in his film 2001, A Space Odyssey. But his music began firmly in his Hungarian roots, and bears a debt to Bartók and Kodály. |
CAMBINI / BRICCIALDI
Wind Quintets Avalon Wind Quintet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2016 ] Anton Hoffmeister was active in Vienna both as a composer and a publisher, becoming closely associated with Mozart and including works by Beethoven amongst his editions. The combination of violin and cello had its appeal for the amateur market,... |
BEETHOVEN / HOLST / BARBER / ARRIEU
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven/Holst/Barber/Arrieu: Summer Music Belgian Wind Quintet [ Discover / CD - released 10/Feb/1990 ] Recorded at the Concert Hall of the Belgium Radio & Television in December 1988 and January 1989 |
The Miles Davis Quintet
Four Classic Albums (Cookin' / Relaxin' / Workin' / Steamin') [ Avid / 2 CD - released 14/Aug/2020 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Albums series with a re-mastered 2CD release from The Miles Davis Quintet complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details |
The Miles Davis Quintet
Workin' With The Miles Davis Quintet (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 12/May/2023 ] Undeniably one of the most iconic small bands in the history of jazz, the Miles Davis Quintet of the mid-1950s featured an all-star line-up of Miles Davis (trumpet), John Coltrane (tenor sax), Red Garland (piano), Paul Chambers (bass) and Philly Joe... |
The Quintet
Jazz At Massey Hall (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 27/Oct/2023 ] This modern jazz summit meeting in Toronto has been called "the greatest jazz concert ever." We owe the survival of the music to Charles Mingus, who, along with Max Roach, taped the concert and subsequently issued it on his own new Debut... |
Rahim Alhaj
Letters from Iraq Rahim Alhaj Oud and String Quintet [ Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / CD - released 1/Jun/2023 ] Letters from Iraq expresses the love and pain of lives lived by the people of war-torn Iraq. Actual mailed letters and their stories are transposed into eight gripping programmatic compositions by Iraqi-American composer and oud player, Rahim AlHaj... |
The Raymond Scott Quintet
Ectoplasm: The Raymond Scott Quintet 1948-1949 [ Basta Records / CD - released 12/Feb/2008 ] This is the first-ever CD presenting Raymond Scott's second Quintet, whose brief existence spanned 1948-49. The style could be termed "parlor jazz," or "chamber swing" - breezy and cerebral. |
MALCOLM ARNOLD / PAUL PATTERSON / GUSTAV HOLST / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Arnold: Three Shanties / Patterson: Comedy for Five Winds / Holst: Wind Quintet Vega Wind Quintet [ LDR / CD - released 1/Jul/1988 ] That Paul Patterson's music possessed a razor-sharp sense of humour...when the Comedy for five winds was written for the Vega Wind Quintet, one can hear just how much further his deployment of musical humour has developed. |
Afro-Blues Quintet Plus 1
New Directions In Sound [ Ace Records U.K. / CD - released 9/Nov/2004 ] |
Alan Skidmore Quintet
Once Upon A Time [ Vocalion / CD - released 30/May/2005 ] |
Alan Skidmore Quintet, The
Tcb [ Vocalion / CD - released 18/Jul/2011 ] |
American Brass Quintet
American Brass Quintet [ Delos / CD - released 5/Sep/2005 ] |
Ammons, Gene - Sonny Stitt (Quintet)
Boss Tenors + Dig Him [ American Jazz Classics / CD - released 14/Sep/2012 ] |
Art Farmer And Hal Mckusick Quintet
Complete Studio Recordings [ CD ] |
The Art Van Damme Quintet
Cocktail Capers / More Cocktail Capers [ Jasmine / CD - released 8/Jan/2021 ] Once described as 'The hippest cat ever to swing an accordion', ART VAN DAMME achieved the near impossible by getting the Jazz firmament to accept the accordion as a serious musical instrument. Having got his recording career under way in the... |
Antonín REJCHA
Rejcha: Wind Quintets Belfiato Quintet [ Supraphon / CD - released 27/Sep/2019 ] "The Belfiato Quintet are excellent throughout, theirs is a more detailed and enlightening performance, one that shows this wonderful music off to its best." MusicWeb recommended |
The Benny Goodman Quintet & Orchestra
Happy Session [ Essential Jazz Classics / CD - released 30/Aug/2010 ] |
The Benny Goodman Quintet & Orchestra
Happy Session (Vinyl) [ Wax Time / LP - released 30/Aug/2010 ] |
FRANCAIX
Chamber Music for Winds Bergen Woodwind Quintet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2012 ] "There is a nice mixture of whimsy throughout all these pieces, plus a gentle melancholy that is wholly individual…a cornucopia of very French music, which is superbly played." Gramophone Magazine, September 2012 |
DAVID MASLANKA
Wind Quintets Bergen Woodwind Quintet [ BIS / CD - released 15/Jul/2002 ] three wind quintets by American composer David Maslanka |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: String Quintet in G, Op. 77 / Nocturne, Op. 40 / Scherzo from String Quintet in E-flat, Op. 97 Berlin Philharmonic String Quintet [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Feb/2012 ] The Berlin Philharmonic String Quintet has become one of the best ensembles in its field, gaining a world-wide reputation. Here they give a sublime interpretation of DvoĆák's String Quintet. |
KALEVI AHO
Aho: Wind Quintets 1 & 2 Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet [ BIS / CD - released 15/Jun/2018 ] With 17 symphonies in his list of works, not to mention operas and concertos, it is easy to forget that Kalevi Aho also composes chamber music. He has in fact written some ten quintets alone, for various combinations of instrument. Two are 'normal'... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Mládí - Czech Chamber Works Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet [ BIS / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] The eminent Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet (BPWQ) has recorded a number of discs for BIS, with their latest CD here featuring three composers born in what is now the Czech Republic. |
TAFFANEL / JOLIVET / TOMASI / POULENC
Danses et Divertissements Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet / Stephen Hough (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] One of the world's foremost wind quintets meets one of today's finest pianists in a work that many consider to be the best work for piano and winds: Poulenc's Sextet, as well as works by other French composers. |
W.A. MOZART
Music for piano and wind quintet Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet / Stephen Hough (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Sep/2000 ] "All the music, even the slighter pieces such as K580a and K616, is top quality, the playing tremendously accomplished, and there's an exceptionally satisfying blend of different instrumental timbres. The arrangements are highly professional,... |
W.A. MOZART / BEETHOVEN
Quintets for Piano and Winds Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet / Stephen Hough (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Feb/2007 ] On this disc one of the world’s finest pianists encounters one of the world’s greatest wind quintets, performing two very special works: Mozart’s and Beethoven’s quintets for piano and winds. The unusual scoring has led these works to be performed... |
DANZI
Complete Wind Quintets Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet with Love Derwinger (piano) [ BIS / 3 CD - released 1/Sep/2006 ] "A delightful man who wrote delightful music: enjoy dipping into this selection" (Gramophone Jan 2007) |
Brazillian Guitar Quintet
Villa-Lobos: Brazilian Guitar [ Delos / CD - released 29/Aug/2011 ] |
Brian Brown Quintet
Bells Make Me Sing [ Creative Vibes / CD - released 27/Aug/2007 ] This is a re-issue of the super-rare recording from the Australian jazz legend! "This is an album of happiness and new spirit, musical medicine for the creative energies of today, playing without looking over one's shoulder. Always exciting!"-Brian... |
VARIOUS
Clarinet Evergreens Budapest Clarinet Quintet [ NAXOS / CD ] |
RAMEAU
Nouvelles Suites Calefax Reed Quintet [ MDG / CD - released 19/Mar/2006 ] Just as one would expect of a man of good taste, Rameau penned suites full of style... |
NANCARROW
Studies for Player Piano CALEFAX Reed Quintet / Ivo Janssen (piano) [ MDG / CD - released 16/Apr/2009 ] MARBECKS STAFF PICK: CD OF THE YEAR 2009 -- "… this latest selection from the composer's back catalogue of player piano studies, arranged by Raaf Hekkema and brilliantly dispatched by the Calefax Reed Quintet and pianist Ivo Janssen, does more... |
Cannonball Adderley Quintet
At the Lighthouse [ CD ] |
Cannonball Adderley Quintet
Cannonball's Sharpshooters [ American Jazz Classics / CD - released 9/Nov/2009 ] |