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Jazz for Kids: Sing, Clap, Wiggle and Shake
(more) »rank: 439by: Various Artists
:Album Description:The fun songs here are timeless classics that appeal to kids of all ages. By featuring childhood favorites such as 'Old McDonald' and 'The Muffin Man,' both sung by Ella Fitzgerald, as well as more offbeat songs ('Mumbles' by Oscar Peterson featuring Clark Terry), Jazz for Kids makes for a great way to teach youngsters about jazz and swing music as well as some of its most legendary performers. Little ones can sing along with Lionel Hampton's 'Rag Mop' and share in the hand claps on 'When the Red, ...
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Miles from India (TWO CD SET)
(more) »rank: 1259by: Various Artists
: :In a startlingly original recreation of music associatedwith jazz legend Miles Davis, producer-archivist BobBelden, renowned for his Grammy Award-winningreissue work on a series of Miles Davis boxed sets forSony/Columbia, along with co-arranger Louiz Banks(celebrated keyboardist from India), has recast familiarthemes from such landmark recordings as BitchesBrew, In A Silent Way, and Kind of Blue with an EastMeets West sensibility on Miles...From India. Anincredibly ambitious project involving two dozenmusicians from two separate continents recording instudios around the world, Miles...From India is a cross-cultural summit meeting that puts a provocative pan-global ...
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Ken Burns's Jazz: The Story of American Music
(more) »rank: 3393by: Various Artists
: :This five-CD box set soundtrack to filmmaker Ken Burns's 10-part, 19-hour documentary Jazz spans nearly a century of jazz styles, from the martial rhythms of James Reese Europe to the soul-jazz of Grover Washington Jr. It includes time-tested classics like Benny Goodman's 1938 classic, 'Sing, Sing, Sing'; John Coltrane's chanting 1965 immortal track, 'A Love Supreme'; Billie Holiday's blue-ember ballad, 'God Bless the Child'; and Ella Fitzgerald peeling off 'A-Tisket A-Tasket.' Bebop is represented by Charlie Parker's orchestral bop version of 'Just Friends'; Thelonious Monk's nocturnal calling card, ''Round Midnight'; ...
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Best of Smooth Jazz II
(more) »rank: 1349by: Weather Channel Presents
: :This five-CD box set soundtrack to filmmaker Ken Burns's 10-part, 19-hour documentary Jazz spans nearly a century of jazz styles, from the martial rhythms of James Reese Europe to the soul-jazz of Grover Washington Jr. It includes time-tested classics like Benny Goodman's 1938 classic, 'Sing, Sing, Sing'; John Coltrane's chanting 1965 immortal track, 'A Love Supreme'; Billie Holiday's blue-ember ballad, 'God Bless the Child'; and Ella Fitzgerald peeling off 'A-Tisket A-Tasket.' Bebop is represented by Charlie Parker's orchestral bop version of 'Just Friends'; Thelonious Monk's nocturnal calling card, ''Round Midnight'; ...
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Mingus Ah Um
(more) »rank: 2846by: Charles Mingus
:Album Details:Limited Millennium Edition. Packed in a Heavy Weight Card Wallet that Faithfully Recreates the Original Vinyl Sleeve, Right Down to the Inner Bag. The Wallet Will Come in a Plastic Cover. :Mercurial bassist and bandleader Charles Mingus was signed to Columbia Records for the briefest of time during 1959. His Columbia recordings, however, remain some of the most inspired, mood-jumping jazz in history. The flowing sadness of 'Goodbye Porkpie Hat' (unedited here for the first time on CD!) rings like a funeral chorus that pitches headlong into a celebration ...
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Songs That Got Us Through WWII
(more) »rank: 1204by: Various Artists
:Album Description:They may have rationed meat, milk, canned goods, and gasoline, but there was no limit to the musical talent during World War II. Morale-boosting sounds on the home front and 'over there' were one of the Allies' most potent weapons. WWII gave birth to many of the 1940s' most popular artists and songs, as well as many of the most important independent record labels. Songs That Got Us Through WWII is the first of a two-volume series collecting the hits that kept the home fires burning and brought a ...
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The Best of the Gipsy Kings
(more) »rank: 2735by: Gipsy Kings
: essential recording:Hailing from the Reyes and Baliardo Gypsy families, this ensemble from the south of France has been playing 'rumba flamenca' since the late 1980s. With this 1995 compilation, the songwriting talent and virtuosity this unique group possesses were gathered together in one comprehensive CD. Notable inclusions are the anthemic hit 'Bamboleo,' from their debut, Gipsy Kings; the slowly emotive 'Trista Pena' the Italian cover 'Volaré,' from Mosaïque; and assorted live cuts that wonderfully capture the wild energy these players spark onstage. In short, the Gipsy Kings are a ...
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The Very Best of John Coltrane
(more) »rank: 4856by: John Coltrane
: :With his inexhaustible technique, trademark sound, and limitless imagination, tenor and soprano saxophonist John Coltrane was one of jazz's most dominant musicians. This collection covers his important Atlantic Records sessions recorded from 1959 to 1960 (chronicled in their entirety on Heavyweight Champion). The tunes signal an important transitional phase from Trane's stints with Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk to his emergence as a leader in his own right. 'Giant Steps' 'Naima,' and 'Cousin Mary'--featuring pianist Tommy Flanagan and drummer Art Taylor--crystallized Trane's supersonic 'sheets of sound' style. 'Like Sonny,' an ...
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Hidden Beach Recordings presents: Unwrapped Vol. 5 - Collipark Cafe Sessions
(more) »rank: 7500by: Various Artists
:Album Description: Hidden Beach Recordings is back with UNWRAPPED(tm) VOL. 5.0: The Collipark Café Sessions. After a long hiatus Hidden Beach has partnered with the blazing hot ColliPark Studios (Soulja Boy, Hurricane Chris, Ying Yang Twins, Lil Jon) for yet another jazzy, hit-packed collection of the best known hip hop and rap hits made popular by Soulja Boy, Hurricane Chris, Snoop Dogg, Lil' Jon, Ludacris, Young Jeezy & Akon and many more! What began as an effort of Atlanta Producer Abdul Ra'oof to develop a themed project called 'Crunk Jazz ...
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Talking Timbuktu
(more) »rank: 1450by: Ali Farka Touré, Ry Cooder
: :Talking Timbuktu is a groundbreaking record that vividly illustrates the Africa-Blues connection in real time. Ali Farka Toure, one of Mali's leading singer-guitarists, has a trance-like, bluesy style that, although deeply rooted in Malian tradition, bears astonishing similarity to that of John Lee Hooker or even Canned Heat. It's a mono-chordal vamp, with repetitive song lines cut with shards of blistering solo runs that shimmer like a desert mirage. Toure may be conversant with some blues artists, but it is unlikely that artists like Hooker or Robert Pete Williams ever ...
