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Buy Now	Verve Unmixed, Vol. 4 (more) »rank: 51602 by: Various Artists :Album Description:Verve Unmixed 4 is the classic version of the greatest jazz performers that have been recently remixed by today's hottest DJs on the Verve Remixed 4 album.	Buy Now	Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section (more) »rank: 18086 by: Art Pepper :Album Description:This CD contains two complete albums showcasing Art Pepper in a quartet setting: 1957's Meets the Rhythm Section, featuring Miles Davis’ legendary rhythm section of Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones, and 1956's Marty Paich Quartet Featuring Art Pepper. 19 tracks. Essential Jazz Classics. :The rhythm section in question here belonged to Miles Davis in Los Angeles, one fine day in January 1957. Pepper had made a name for himself in Stan Kenton's band, but this was really the first time he found himself in the studio with a rhythm section such as Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and ...
Buy Now	Fontessa (more) »rank: 56804 by: The Modern Jazz Quartet :Album Description:Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. Atlantic. 2007. essential recording:This 1956 record marked the beginning of the Modern Jazz Quartet's long and fruitful relationship with Atlantic Records and was one of their most inspired visits to a studio. While there had been excellent bands in the past that created a chamber-jazz genre, such as Red Norvo's trio, John Lewis's vision of a fusion of jazz and classical elements was distinctly original. It's apparent here in the controlled counterpoint of 'Versailles,' the extended first recording on 'Fontessa,' with Lewis's spare and precise ...	Buy Now	Martha Stewart Living Music: Traditional Songs for the Holidays (more) »rank: 24054 by: Various Artists :Album Description:Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. Atlantic. 2007. essential recording:This 1956 record marked the beginning of the Modern Jazz Quartet's long and fruitful relationship with Atlantic Records and was one of their most inspired visits to a studio. While there had been excellent bands in the past that created a chamber-jazz genre, such as Red Norvo's trio, John Lewis's vision of a fusion of jazz and classical elements was distinctly original. It's apparent here in the controlled counterpoint of 'Versailles,' the extended first recording on 'Fontessa,' with Lewis's spare and precise ...
Buy Now	Vince Guaraldi Trio (more) »rank: 46487 by: Vince Guaraldi Trio :Album Description:Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. Atlantic. 2007. essential recording:This 1956 record marked the beginning of the Modern Jazz Quartet's long and fruitful relationship with Atlantic Records and was one of their most inspired visits to a studio. While there had been excellent bands in the past that created a chamber-jazz genre, such as Red Norvo's trio, John Lewis's vision of a fusion of jazz and classical elements was distinctly original. It's apparent here in the controlled counterpoint of 'Versailles,' the extended first recording on 'Fontessa,' with Lewis's spare and precise ...	Buy Now	Walk, Don't Run! (more) »rank: 32989 by: Johnny Smith :Album Description:'Moonlight In Vermont' may have made Johnny Smith famous, but this 1954 session with rhythm guitarist Perry Lopez, bassist Arnold Fishkin and drummer Don Lamond is his masterpiece. Originally issued over two 10' LPs, these 13 songs shows an innovative guitarist with astonishing technique and lightning-fast mind. These gems are ripe for rediscovery in the guitar world. The closing 'Lullaby Of Birdland' features Smith playing a duet with himself through early overdubbing. The title tune, a Johnny Smith original, became a Top Ten hit six years later for The Ventures. Remastered in 24 bit from the original mono tapes.
Buy Now	Marian Mcpartland's Piano Jazz (more) »rank: 44687 by: Bill Evans :Album Description:'Moonlight In Vermont' may have made Johnny Smith famous, but this 1954 session with rhythm guitarist Perry Lopez, bassist Arnold Fishkin and drummer Don Lamond is his masterpiece. Originally issued over two 10' LPs, these 13 songs shows an innovative guitarist with astonishing technique and lightning-fast mind. These gems are ripe for rediscovery in the guitar world. The closing 'Lullaby Of Birdland' features Smith playing a duet with himself through early overdubbing. The title tune, a Johnny Smith original, became a Top Ten hit six years later for The Ventures. Remastered in 24 bit from the original mono tapes.	Buy Now	Latin Lace/Latin Affair (more) »rank: 79822 by: George Shearing :Album Details:Arguably his Most Commercial and Popular Recordings Were Forays Into the Land of Latin. These Albums Are Superb Illustrations of Romantic Easy Swing Music. This Music is Guaranteed to Stir the Feet and Emotions.
Buy Now	Django (more) »rank: 40347 by: The Modern Jazz Quartet :Album Description:Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2006. :Pianist John Lewis, vibraphonist Milt Jackson, bassist Percy Heath, and drummer Kenny Clarke were fresh from serving as the rhythm section in the Dizzy Gillespie orchestra when they went into the studio in 1953 to record--only their second session together. 'Autumn in New York,' which would go on to become one of the group's staple performances in concert, summarized their cameo-like pictorial strengths. The December 23, 1954 session produced two of the group's enduring masterpieces--'Django,' Lewis's tribute to the then-recently deceased French gypsy guitarist, Django ...	Buy Now	Intuition (more) »rank: 75390 by: Lennie Tristano : :This CD brings together some of the greatest cool jazz ever recorded--Tristano's 1949 sextet sessions for Capitol and Marsh's 1956 masterpiece Jazz of Two Cities. Tristano's sessions (which feature Marsh and Lee Konitz on sax) are breathtaking displays of exciting and intellectually challenging bop, and the final two cuts--'Intuition' and 'Digression'--prefigure free jazz. While less adventurous, Marsh's 1956 outing (with Ted Brown on tenor sax) is a beautiful collection of standards and originals. It clearly demonstrates why Tristano thought Marsh was one of the great jazz improvisers. --Bill Holdship