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Buy Now	City of Glass: Stan Kenton Plays Bob Graettinger (more) »rank: 33006 by: Stan Kenton	Buy Now	Piano in the Foreground (more) »rank: 60806 by: Duke Ellington : :Duke Ellington's piano style influenced generations of pianists, from Thelonious Monk to Randy Weston. This 1961 trio recording, with his orchestra's rhythm section of drummer Sam Woodyard and Aaron Bell, clearly unveils the maestro's powerful touch, black-and-tan chords, and unstoppable swing, all often overshadowed in the work of his bigger bands. The standard 'Body and Soul' shows Ellington's debt to James P. Johnson's Harlem stride style, while 'Blues for Jerry,' recalls Count Basie's Kansas City grooves. 'Cong-go' masterfully marries Nigerian highlife and Cuban congorhythms, while Gershwin's 'Summertime' and 'Springtime in Africa' become surprising, evocative tone poems that foreshadow the avant-garde abstractions of the ...
Buy Now	Live at the Royal Albert Hall (more) »rank: 41845 by: The Cinematic Orchestra : :One of the most revered and versatile live bands from the UK, The Cinematic Orchestra have toured the world, headlined festivals, and even performed a party for Stanley Kubrick. On November 2, 2007 they played at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall in London accompanied by the 24-piece Heritage Orchestra. This release highlights the best moments from the night, including songs from the band's most recent album 'Ma Fleur', as well as favorites from previous albums. Featuring 'To Build A Home', 'Breathe', 'All That You Give', 'Flite', and more. Guest vocalists include Lou Rhodes, Grey Reverend, and Heidi Vogel.	Buy Now	Hobo Flats (more) »rank: 110679 by: Jimmy Smith : :One of the most revered and versatile live bands from the UK, The Cinematic Orchestra have toured the world, headlined festivals, and even performed a party for Stanley Kubrick. On November 2, 2007 they played at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall in London accompanied by the 24-piece Heritage Orchestra. This release highlights the best moments from the night, including songs from the band's most recent album 'Ma Fleur', as well as favorites from previous albums. Featuring 'To Build A Home', 'Breathe', 'All That You Give', 'Flite', and more. Guest vocalists include Lou Rhodes, Grey Reverend, and Heidi Vogel.
Buy Now	The Miles Davis and Gil Evans: Complete Columbia Studio Recordings (more) »rank: 80911 by: Miles Davis, Gil Evans : :From their first work together on the Birth of the Cool sessions in 1949, Miles Davis and Gil Evans forged a unique relationship as great soloist and brilliant arranger. The real opportunity to explore their shared vision didn't come until 1957, however, when Davis had forged a relationship with a major record label able to support it. Though a product of the big-band tradition, Evans was never limited by sectional voicings and riffs. He had an interest in unusual instrumentation and a talent for creating subtle mixes of distinct voices, adding French horns, oboe, bassoon, and harp to the conventional big band and ...	Buy Now	Secret Story (more) »rank: 111780 by: Pat Metheny : essential recording:Pat Metheny's most ambitious solo project is also his most emotionally rich work as composer. A conceptual song cycle inspired by a tumultuous relationship frames the CD's alternately intense and introspective motifs with sweeping orchestrations and a shifting array of global musics spanning Asia, Europe, and the Americas. With a vast cast (including numerous Metheny Group members past and present), and Metheny himself marshalling percussion, horns, and keyboards as well as guitar and guitar synthesizer, Secret Story is by turns lush, heroic, heartbroken, at once epic and intimate. --Sam Sutherland
Buy Now	At the Las Vegas Tropicana (more) »rank: 66524 by: Stan Kenton : essential recording:Pat Metheny's most ambitious solo project is also his most emotionally rich work as composer. A conceptual song cycle inspired by a tumultuous relationship frames the CD's alternately intense and introspective motifs with sweeping orchestrations and a shifting array of global musics spanning Asia, Europe, and the Americas. With a vast cast (including numerous Metheny Group members past and present), and Metheny himself marshalling percussion, horns, and keyboards as well as guitar and guitar synthesizer, Secret Story is by turns lush, heroic, heartbroken, at once epic and intimate. --Sam Sutherland	Buy Now	Standards in Silhouette (more) »rank: 75050 by: Stan Kenton : essential recording:Pat Metheny's most ambitious solo project is also his most emotionally rich work as composer. A conceptual song cycle inspired by a tumultuous relationship frames the CD's alternately intense and introspective motifs with sweeping orchestrations and a shifting array of global musics spanning Asia, Europe, and the Americas. With a vast cast (including numerous Metheny Group members past and present), and Metheny himself marshalling percussion, horns, and keyboards as well as guitar and guitar synthesizer, Secret Story is by turns lush, heroic, heartbroken, at once epic and intimate. --Sam Sutherland
Buy Now	Stan Kenton Today (more) »rank: 59933 by: Stan Kenton : essential recording:Pat Metheny's most ambitious solo project is also his most emotionally rich work as composer. A conceptual song cycle inspired by a tumultuous relationship frames the CD's alternately intense and introspective motifs with sweeping orchestrations and a shifting array of global musics spanning Asia, Europe, and the Americas. With a vast cast (including numerous Metheny Group members past and present), and Metheny himself marshalling percussion, horns, and keyboards as well as guitar and guitar synthesizer, Secret Story is by turns lush, heroic, heartbroken, at once epic and intimate. --Sam Sutherland	Buy Now	Last Tango in Paris (more) »rank: 36400 from: Varese Sarabande : :Despite a famously raving review by American film critic grand dame Pauline Kael (who dubbed it 'the most powerfully erotic movie ever made') Bernardo Bertolucci's often unfocused 1973 meditation on sexuality, existential angst and inventive uses of butter can now seem as quaintly compelling as wide collared blazers and velveteen trousers. Indeed, Argentine jazz saxophonist Gato Barbieri's evocative score has aged better than much of the film. Bertolucci's conceit to structure the film loosely around the erotic duel that's at the heart of the Tango led him to seek a non-traditional musician to score it (Tango legend Astor Piazzolla was rumored to have ...