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A GRP Christmas Collection
(more) »rank: 14354by: Various Artists
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Milestones
(more) »rank: 7623by: Miles Davis
: :This 1958 date finds Davis with his first super group: alto and tenor saxophonists Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane, drummer Philly Joe Jones, bassist Paul Chambers, and pianist Red Garland. It looks to the past with the bebop and blues likes of Jackie McLean's 'Dr. Jackle,' John Lewis and Dizzy Gillespie's 'Two Bass Hit,' and Thelonious Monk's 'Straight No Chaser.' The band points solidly to the future with the modal masterpiece 'Milestones,' which set the stage for the historic Kind of Blue. Davis's own tune, 'Sid's Ahead' has a melodic line like Benny Golson's 'Killer Joe,' and 'Billy Boy' features Garland, Chambers, and ...
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Merry Axemas, Vol. 2: More Guitars for Christmas
(more) »rank: 5956by: Various Artists
: :This 1958 date finds Davis with his first super group: alto and tenor saxophonists Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane, drummer Philly Joe Jones, bassist Paul Chambers, and pianist Red Garland. It looks to the past with the bebop and blues likes of Jackie McLean's 'Dr. Jackle,' John Lewis and Dizzy Gillespie's 'Two Bass Hit,' and Thelonious Monk's 'Straight No Chaser.' The band points solidly to the future with the modal masterpiece 'Milestones,' which set the stage for the historic Kind of Blue. Davis's own tune, 'Sid's Ahead' has a melodic line like Benny Golson's 'Killer Joe,' and 'Billy Boy' features Garland, Chambers, and ...
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The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady
(more) »rank: 6563by: Charles Mingus
: essential recording:This 1963 recording occupies a special place in Mingus's work, his most brilliantly realized extended composition. The six-part suite is a broad canvas for the bassist's tumultuous passions, ranging from islands of serenity for solo guitar and piano to waves of contrapuntal conflict and accelerating rhythms that pull the listener into the musical psychodrama. It seems to mingle and transform both the heights and clichés of jazz orchestration, from Mingus's master, Duke Ellington, to film noir soundtracks. The result is a masterpiece of sounds and textures, from the astonishing vocal effects of the plunger-muted trumpets and trombone (seeming to speak messages ...
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Swiss Movement: Montreux 30th Anniversary Edition
(more) »rank: 16286by: Les McCann, Eddie Harris
: essential recording:This 1963 recording occupies a special place in Mingus's work, his most brilliantly realized extended composition. The six-part suite is a broad canvas for the bassist's tumultuous passions, ranging from islands of serenity for solo guitar and piano to waves of contrapuntal conflict and accelerating rhythms that pull the listener into the musical psychodrama. It seems to mingle and transform both the heights and clichés of jazz orchestration, from Mingus's master, Duke Ellington, to film noir soundtracks. The result is a masterpiece of sounds and textures, from the astonishing vocal effects of the plunger-muted trumpets and trombone (seeming to speak messages ...
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The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 2
(more) »rank: 26574by: Béla Fleck
: 's Best of 1999 :In a jaw-dropping return to his roots, banjoist Béla Fleck led a stellar lineup (Jerry Douglas, Earl Scruggs, Tony Rice, and Sam Bush, to name a few) through one of his finest albums. With incredible musicianship and a smidgen of Fleck's genre-hopping personality ('Polka On The Banjo'), The Bluegrass Sessions is fun, nostalgic, and inspiring. --Jason Verlinde Amazon.com essential recording:Béla Fleck, the banjo-wizard leader of the fringe-jazz quartet the Flecktones, returns to more-bluegrass-oriented concerns with this 18-song outing, a complement to 1988's Drive and a more-traditional follow-up to 1995's fusion-leaning Tales from the Acoustic Planet. Most of these songs ...
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Sunday at the Village Vanguard
(more) »rank: 7715by: Bill Evans Trio
: essential recording:This live recording by the Bill Evans Trio at the Village Vanguard on June 25, 1961, marked the end of one of the most sublime instrumental combinations in jazz history when bassist Scott LaFaro died in a car accident 10 days later. This unit is underdocumented because Evans, a notorious perfectionist, was reluctant to record. The interchange between Evans on piano, LaFaro on bass and Paul Motian on drums is balletic in its balance of emotional beauty and technical precision. Multiple takes of 'Gloria's Step,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'All of You,' and 'Jade Visions' show how the invention these players brought ...
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Symphonica
(more) »rank: 6801by: Joe Lovano
:Album Description:Tenor titan Lovano's 20th Blue Note recording is a bold and beautiful orchestral project recorded largely in concert with the WDR Radio Big Band and Orchestra from Cologne, Germany, with the music arranged and conducted by Michael Abene, the musical director of the big band. Largely Lovano originals the album features one cover, Charles Mingus' 'Duke Ellington's Sound of Love'.
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Sentimental Journey
(more) »rank: 5896by: Beegie Adair
: :Best selling jazz pianist, Beegie Adair, salutes the Greatest Generation with jazz trio renditions of World War II classics.
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Romantic Warrior
(more) »rank: 9194by: Return to Forever
: :Originally released in 1976, Return To Forever's Romantic Warrior could be described as the high-water mark of jazz fusion's commercial popularity, reaching a spot on the Billboard charts and garnering the group a fanatical following of fans attracted to the band's technical prowess and bombast. Released on the heels of the breakup of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Romantic Warrior still sounds like a standard-bearer for jazz fusion, full of flashy solos and complicated arrangements that seem like collages of different moods, meters, and tempos. The album is much closer to the progressive rock of Yes, Emerson Lake & Palmer, or King Crimson than anything ...
