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Jack Wilson
Easterly Winds (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 3/Nov/2023 ] The Chicago-born pianist and composer Jack Wilson enjoyed a wide-range of musical associations including work with the likes of Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, Lou Rawls, Gerald Wilson, Roy Ayers, and recording leader dates for Atlantic before he... |
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FRANK BRIDGE
Bridge: Piano Trios Nos. 1 and 2 / etc Ashley Wass (piano) Jack Liebeck (violin) Alexander Chaushian (cello) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] Frank Bridge's reputation as the teacher of his most famous student, Benjamin Britten, has long hindered appreciation of his own impeccably crafted music. Between the early Phantasie Trio (1907) and Miniatures (1908) and the masterful Piano Trio No.... |
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BILLY MAYERL
Billy Mayerl, Vol. 1 (1925-1936) Court Symphony Orchestra; Jack Hylton Orchestra; Ray Noble Orchestra, with Al Bowlly & Billy Joseph Mayerl [ Naxos Nostalgia / CD - released 3/Feb/2003 ] Billy Mayerl was born in London and from 1926 ran his own School of Modern Syncopation in the cause of the style of piano-playing that he championed. Thanks to correspondence courses his 'teachings' spread worldwide, and he even counted the future... |
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Champion Jack Dupree
Jivin' With Jack - Live In Manchester, May 1966 [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2002 ] "The scene on our arrival at the Duprees [Pacific Street, Brooklyn] was worthy of a Chaplin movie: abject housing, poor and outwardly dirty, badly paved sidewalks; an exterior staircase of worm eaten wood led up to their apartment. Yet in extreme... |
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Champion Jack Dupree
The Sonet Blues Story [ Universal Music / CD - released 15/Jun/2005 ] Available as an import from Europe. |
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LEI LIANG
Bamboo Lights The Cicada Chamber Ensemble / Musicians from soundSCAPE / The JACK Quartet / The Callithumpian Consort, Stephen Drury [ Bridge / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] Chinese-born American composer Lei Liang (b.1972) is the winner of the 2011 Rome Prize, and a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. His commissions include the New York Philharmonic, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Taipei Chinese Orchestra, the... |
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Eddie Gomez / John Abercrombie / Jack DeJohnette / Lester Bowie
New Directions [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] New Directions found drummer/pianist Jack DeJohnette reflecting on the multiple routes his musical life had taken and summarizing them in a single band. "My idea was to put together a cast of unlikely characters". He'd worked with Eddie Gomez in the... |
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Gary Peacock, Jan Garbarek, Tomasz Stanko, Jack DeJohnette
Voice From The Past - Paradigm (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 25/Nov/2016 ] Gary Peacock's Voice from the Past - Paradigm (recorded 1981) draws inspiration from the energy music that Peacock played in New York in the early 1960s when he was a member of visionary saxophonist Albert Ayler's groups. Jan Garbarek, in some of his... |
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John Abercrombie / Dave Holland / Jack DeJohnette
Gateway [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 1/Jan/1975 ] The 1975 coming-together of the mighty trio of John Abercrombie, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette. Down Beat spoke of "daring and visionary spirit" in a five star review. |
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George Benson & Jack McDuff
George Benson & Jack McDuff [ Universal Music / CD - released 21/Dec/2007 ] Benson's career really got under way during his long early-Sixties association with organist Jack McDuff. Benson's very first album was recorded during that period, and is reissued here along with some strong examples of his work in support of McDuff. |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in October 2009) Globe Theatre / Philip Cumbus / Trystan Gravelle / William Mannering / Jack Farthing / Michelle Terry [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] "With a delightful design and jaunty music it has abundant charm… Entirely enchanting" The Times |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: As You Like It (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in October 2009) Globe / Brendan Hughes / Naomi Frederick / Laura Rogers / Philip Bird / Jamie Parker / Jack Laskey [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "Naomi Frederick's superb Rosalind is a woman of wit and intelligence… Laskey's Orlando is equally bewitched, bothered and bewildered, and the playfulness between the two is a pleasure" The Guardian |
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DEREK BERMEL
Bermel: Intonations - music for clarinet and strings Derek Bermel (Clarinet) Christopher Otto (Violin) Wiek Hijmans (Electric guitar) / JACK Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 26/Aug/2022 ] Twice GRAMMY-nominated composer and performer Derek Bermel studied with Henri Dutilleux, Dutch avant-gardist Louis Andriessen, and ragtime revivalist William Bolcom. |
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BEETHOVEN
Eroica / Symphony No. 3 Ian Hart / Tim Pigott-Smith / Claire Skinner / Jack Davenport / Orchestre RACvolutionnaire et Romantique / Sir John Eliot Gardiner [ BBC / Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 5/May/2005 ] G :- 'Ian Hart is brilliant as Beethoven, a volatile, magnetic figure of genius and uncouth charm…not to be missed.' -- Daily Mail |
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Jack Benny
Interview With Tony Thomas [ Delos / CD ] |
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Jack Buchanan
Oceans Of Time [ Vocalion / CD - released 4/Mar/2010 ] |
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Jack DeJohnette
Made In Chicago [ ECM / CD - released 23/Jan/2015 ] With Made In Chicago, an exhilarating live album, Jack DeJohnette celebrates a reunion with old friends. In 1962, DeJohnette, Roscoe Mitchell and Henry Threadgill were all classmates at Wilson Junior College on Chicago's Southside, pooling energies... |
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Jack DeJohnette
Oneness [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] Jack DeJohnette has played with almost all the architects of modern jazz history, from the members of the AACM to Coltrane, Miles, Rollins, Ornette Coleman and Bill Evans and is, of course, currently a member of the world's most celebrated piano... |
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Jack DeJohnette
Rarum Volume 12 :-Selected Recordings [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Feb/2004 ] 'Selected Recordings' features landmark recordings and old favourites - greatest hits, effectively - from this highly regarded musician. |
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Jack DeJohnette
Special Edition [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] The first version of Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition, which helped to alert the wider world to the talents of saxophonists David Murray and Arthur Blythe, won the Down Beat Readers' Poll Album of the Year award. Lively programme includes two John... |