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Dave Brubeck Quartet
The Quartet [ Lester Recording / CD - released 23/Oct/1989 ] Bass - Eugene Wright Drums - Joe Morello Keyboards - Darius Brubeck Piano - Dave Brubeck Saxophone - Paul Desmond |
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Jack Sheldon
On My Own [ Concord jazz / CD - released 22/Mar/2004 ] Recorded August 29 & September 12, 1991. |
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Barney Kessel (Featuring Art Pepper)
Some Like it Hot [ Original Jazz Classics / CD - released 30/Apr/1988 ] Recorded in Los Angeles on March/April, 1959, and features two alternate tracks not included on the original LP release. |
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Buddy Rich (drums)
Buddy Rich [ Verve Compact Jazz / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] Featuring Joe Mondragon, Stanley Turrentine, Max Roach, Phil Woods, John Bunch, Dave McKenna & Johnny Morris |
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Claude Hopkins (piano) Budd Johnson, Buddy Tate (saxophone), Buddy Tate (clarinet), Wendell Marshall (bass), Ferdinand Everett (drums)
Claude Hopkins - Swing Time [ Prestige / CD - released 7/Jan/1999 ] Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ; May 22, 1963 (#1-7) and February 21, 1961 (#8-14) |
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Diz Disley
Diz Disley & His String Quintet [ Lake / CD - released 14/Nov/2011 ] 1950s recordings of Gipsy Jazz from one of the Jazz and Folk world's great characters and most accomplished guitarists. Today there is a proliferation of groups performing the Gipsy Jazz purveyed by the legendary Django Reinhardt, but in the 1950s... |
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Dizzy Gillespieand his Orchestra
A Portrait of Duke Ellington [ Verve / CD - released 17/Jan/1984 ] "And on A Portrait of Duke Ellington, that depth and skill, stimulated by a change in the stale Gillespie repertoire and complemented by rich, radically imaginative arrangements by Clare Fischer, result in a really classic album." Washington. Post |
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Eartha Kitt
My Greatest Songs [ RCA / CD - released 21/Mar/1992 ] Eartha Kitt's greatest hits are defined by her sultry voice and unique delivery, with iconic songs like "Santa Baby," "C'est Si Bon," "I Want to Be Evil," "Just an Old Fashioned Girl," and "My Heart Belongs to Daddy," Also includes songs in French,... |
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Jelly Roll Morton
Doctor Jazz - His Greatest Recordings [ ASV Living Era / CD - released 2/Feb/1994 ] A classic compilation focusing on the legendary early jazz composer and pianist Jelly Roll Morton. It serves as a highly regarded, accessible introduction to his foundational 1920s sessions. |
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Judy Garland, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Jack Jones, Billie Holiday, Al Jolson, Peggy Lee
Crazy For Gershwin [ MCA / CD - released 15/May/1993 ] Probably the greatest modern composer of the 20th Century, was probably also the greatest loss to modern music when he died of a brain tumour at the age of 38 in 1937. |
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Lester Young (tenor saxophone)
Lester Young & The Piano Giants [ Verve Compact Jazz / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] Featuring teddy Wilson, John Lewis, Oscar Peterson, Nat King Cole, Hank Jones & Buddy Rich. |
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Louis Armstrong, Scott Joplin, Arthur Pryor, The Original Dixie Band, James P. Johnson, Willie 'The Lion' Smith, Fats Waller & more
The Spirit of Ragtime [ ASV Living Era / CD - released 2/Feb/1998 ] Original mono recordings from 1910 to 1947 |
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Louis Armstrong, with Johnny Dodds (clarinet) Johnny St. Cyr (Banjo) Kid Ory (trombone) Lil Armstrong (piano)
The Hot Fives - Volume 1 [ CBS Jazz Masterworks / CD - released 6/Sep/1999 ] In 1925 Louis Armstrong's name meant little to the general public, even though his playing was revered by Countless jazz musicians. Only the initiated were aware that he had already eclipsed the work of pioneer cornetists like Freddy Keppard. |
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Allan Vache's Florida Jazz Allstars, featuring Johnny varro and Bob Haggart
Allan Vache's Florida Jazz Allstars [ Nagel Heyer / CD - released 2/Feb/1997 ] Recorded March 27 & 28, 1996 at Parc Studios, Orlando, Florida |
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Art Pepper, with Pete Candoli, Jack Sheldon. Mel Lewis. Bud Shank. Russ Freeman, Marty Paich & others
Art Pepper Plus Eleven [ Contemporary / CD - released 22/Feb/2010 ] A 1960 jazz album by saxophonist Art Pepper and a small big band performing arrangements by Marty Paich, who also directed the ensemble. (Wiki) |
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Bud Shank & Bob Cooper
Blowin' Country [ Pacific Jazz / CD - released 18/Oct/2010 ] Recorded in Los Angeles on January 21, 1958 and/or February 18/19, 1958 (#1-11) and November 29, 1956 (#12-15) |
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Dizzy Gillespie, with Sonnny Stitt, Ray Bryant, James Moody, Lee Morgan, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker & others
Dizzy Gillespie - Jazz Masters 10 [ Verve / CD - released 10/Oct/1994 ] "the collection opens with the famous "Manteca" performed by Gillespie's big band at the Newport Jazz Festival. This single seven-minute performance will tell you everything you need to know about Dizzy Gillespie." (arwulf arwulf) |
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Dizzy Gillespie, with Sonny Stitt, and others
Dizzy Gillespie - Jazz Masters [ Verve Jazz Masters / CD - released 10/Oct/1988 ] Recorded at Nola Studios, New York, 1957. Recorded at Fine Sound Studios, New York, 1956 Recorded at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, 1960 Recorded at Capital Studios, Hollywood, 1957 and at other locations |
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Duke Ellington
Ellington At Newport [ CBS / Sony Jazz / CD - released 4/Nov/1996 ] Recorded in performance at the American Jazz Festival at Newport, Rhode Island on July 7, 1956 |
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Duke Ellington & Coleman Hawkins, with Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Ray Nance, Lawrence Brown & others
Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins [ MCA Imulse! / CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] "one of the great Ellington albums, one of the great Hawkins albums and one of the great albums of the 1960s." The New York Times |