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Larry Clinton & His Orch.: Old Folks; Who Blew Out the Flame; [more]
On the budget-priced Irish Folk Songs, conductor Robert Shaw leads his Chorale through smooth renditions of 16 Irish folk tunes and ballads, with the emphasis on sentimental [more]
It may surprise some people today that such songs as Oh! Susanna and My Old Kentucky Home are not folksongs.
But they're the next best thing, having been [more]
Grant Green's third album to be released, Grantstand teams the clear-toned guitarist with an unlikely backing group of musicians who rarely appeared with Blue Note otherwise: tenor [more]
Milt Jackson, who passed away on October 9, 1999, was the third great vibraphonist in jazz history (he was preceded by Lionel Hampton and Red Norvo) and [more]
This is the sixth studio album cut by Thelonious Monk under the production/direction of Teo Macero for Columbia and as such should not be confused with the original motion [more]
This historical CD contains some of guitarist Wes Montgomery's first recordings; in fact only three small-group songs predate these performances. The then-obscure guitarist is heard in two [more]
Here's a question for the television quiz show Jeopardy. Is the jazz vocalist Mel Torme better known for his swinging uptempo songs or for his lovely [more]
Prayer; Heart's Song; Samba; Lullaby; Catalan Folk Song; Willow Mountain.
Frederic Hand, Guitar.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Scott recorded some sessions for Atlantic that were either withdrawn from the market for legal reasons, or unissued entirely. Lost and Found [more]
Pianist George Shearing has been one of the most popular jazz performers of the past half-century. Born blind in London in 1919, Shearing [more]
Part of the compilation series Ballad Essentials, this CD features the jazz vocals of Carol Sloane. The vocalist's smoky renditions of such ballads as
I can't see where there's anything fantastic about it all. I put quite a bit of study into the horn, that's true. In fact, the neighbors threatened to ask my mother to move once when we were living out West. She said I was driving them crazy with the horn. I used to put in at least 11 to 15 hours a day. -Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker was one of the true giants of American music. A brilliant alto-saxophonist who could play perfectly coherent solos at a blinding speed, Parker [more]
For those who have found B3 sensation Jimmy Smith's voluminous Blue Note catalog daunting and can't find a place to start, this handsome four-CD Retrospective, covering 30 years, may be [more]
Tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter's Blue Note debut found him well prepared to enter the big time. With an impressive quintet that included trumpeter Lee Morgan, pianist [more]
From the time of his emergence in 1956 as a remarkably talented 18-year old up until his untimely death in 1971, Lee Morgan was one of the top trumpeters in jazz. [more]
Tribal Beatz of Africa is an album of ambient African music, if such a genre exists. The band Umoya is based around Barry Van Zyl, the drummer for Johnny Clegg, and Robin Hogarth, a [more]
"Particularly the mandolin and the tin whistle complement the lively singing." —Darmstädter Echo
Step It Out Mary; Hard Times; Jigs; Jock Stewart; As I Roved Out; Sliav Gallion Braes; The Bonnie Ship "The Diamond"; The Night Visiting [more]