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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... |
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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,... |
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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 |
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The Gary Burton Quintet
Dreams So Real [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in December 1975, Gary Burton's 'Dreams So Real' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
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MENDELSSOHN / EWALD / BOHME
Romantic Music For Brass Geoffrey Hardcastle (solo cornet) / Center City Brass Quintet [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in stereo & multi-channel sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM. |
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The Horace Silver Quintet
Song For My Father [ Blue Note / CD - released 14/Jun/1999 ] Song for My Father is a 1965 album by the Horace Silver Quintet, released on the Blue Note label in 1965. The album was inspired by a trip that Silver had made to Brazil. The cover artwork features a photograph of Silver's father, John Tavares... |
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Jimmie Shavers (trumpet), with John Kirby And His Orchestra, Herbie Haymer Quintet, and others
Young Shavers [ Topaz Jazz / CD - released 2/Feb/1997 ] From early small group jazz to later recordings with the great Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Shavers' trumpet could be both hot and cool. He had wonderful technique and control, as well as fire in his belly. Sometimes he could be bad. Here only the very,... |
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Kelly Smith & Billy May, Nat King Cole & George Shearing,, Art Pepper Quintet, Ella Fitzgerald & Nelson Riddle, Lee Konitz, Miles Davis, etc
Jerome Kern Songbook - The Song Is You [ Jazz Giants Play / CD - released 12/Oct/2005 ] Rodgers and Hart were an American songwriting partnership between composer Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and the lyricist Lorenz Hart (1895-1943). They worked together on 28 stage musicals and more than 500 songs from 1919 until Hart's death in 1943. |
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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 2 / Die gluckliche Hand / Wind Quintet Mark Beesley (bass) / Simon Joly Chorale / New York Woodwind Quintet / Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 8 / CD - released 1/May/2008 ] The little-known Second Chamber Symphony ought to be the most popular of Schoenberg's later masterpieces. Neither "atonal" nor "twelve-tone", it contrasts a lush, melodious, dramatic first movement with a rapid and richly polyphonic second movement.... |
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FRANZ DANZI
Danzi: Wind Quintets Op.67 1-3 / Sonata for Horn Michael Thompson Wind Quintet, with Michael Thompson (horn) Philip Fowke (piano) [ Naxos / CD ] "...These three are as cleverly written as always, appealing to the listener's intelligence but also to a sense of humour." © 2000 Gramophone |
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Thelonious Monk Quintet
Thelonious Monk Quintet [ Prestige / CD - released 2/Feb/1982 ] Recognized as one of the most original musicians in American history, Thelonious Sphere Monk fashioned a startlingly unique, inimitable playing and composing style that influenced virtually every succeeding jazz generation. His playing technique... |
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ANTON BRUCKNER / FRANZ SCHMIDT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruckner: String Quintet in F major / Schmidt: Piano Quintet in G major Vienna Philharmonia Quintet with Eduard Mrazek (piano) [ Decca / London / CD - released 27/Jan/1991 ] "...Hidden gems of the late-Romantic chamber repertoire, marvellously performed and recorded. A thoroughly enjoyable release." (MusicWeb March 2006) |
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The Warren Vaché Quintet
Plays The Music Of Harry Warren [ Nagel Heyer / CD - released 29/Jan/1997 ] The Warren Vaché Quintet plays the music of Harry Warren. Warren Vaché has been described as "lyrical," "exciting," "daring," "warm" and "accessible," with his delightful way of engaging the audience. Anyone who has attended a Warren Vaché... |
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The Blue Mitchell Quintet
Down With It! (LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 9/Feb/2024 ] 180g reissue LP, gatefold. |
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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,... |
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Horace Silver Quintet, Featuring Stanley Turrentine
Serenade To A Soul Sister Blue Note Classic Vinyl [ Blue Note / LP - released 21/Mar/2025 ] Horace Silver had been delivering hard bop classic after hard bop classic for more than a decade when he shifted gears and began moving into more groovy territory with 1966's The Jody Grind. When the pianist next went into Van Gelder Studio in 1968... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Roy Hargrove Quintet
Earfood [ CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] |
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Afro-Blues Quintet Plus 1
New Directions In Sound [ Ace Records U.K. / CD - released 9/Nov/2004 ] |