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Buy Now	The Door (more) »rank: 2081 by: Mathias Eick, Jon Balke, Audun Kleive, Audun Erlien, Stian Carstensen : :Trumpeter Mathias Eick, in the first album released under his own name, focuses all the qualities that have made him a musician to be reckoned with in and around jazz of the last decade. The Door is distinguished by vaulting lyricism and clear-edged melodies, a strong sense of ambient space in the writing, and edge and excitement and openness to improvisation. The 28-year-old Norwegian cites Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, Kenny Wheeler, Tomasz Stanko, Arve Henriksen and Nils Petter Molvaer as influences upon his stylistic evolution as a soloist. However ...	Buy Now	On a Starry Night (more) »rank: 2880 by: Various Artists : :The party line on most Windham Hill products seems to be that it's either the greatest stuff since wave machines, or that it all sounds alike. On a Starry Night, with its collection of world songs and reputable artists such as Flora Purim, Airto Moreira, the Turtle Island String Quartet, and others, does lean toward a seamlessly understated, homogeneous quality that is broken only occasionally by Bobby McFerrin's piece and a couple of others. That said, there can hardly be a more mellow or sonorous album of kid's music anywhere. ...
Buy Now	Stan Getz & The Oscar Peterson Trio: The Silver Collection (more) »rank: 2951 by: Stan Getz :Album Description:Japanese exclusive remastered reissue of the jazz act's 1957 album, packaged in a limited edition miniature LP sleeve. Verve. 2004. :Stan Getz and Oscar Peterson were both consummate performers, comfortable at any tempo, when they met for this 1957 recording, and they're clearly enjoying one another's skills on ballads and uptempo tunes alike. The group is one of the finest editions of Peterson's trios, with bassist Ray Brown and guitarist Herb Ellis. It's virtually a machine for quiet swing, and the absence of a drummer lets Getz's silky sound ...	Buy Now	Armchair Apocrypha (more) »rank: 1382 by: Andrew Bird : :Strip away the music of an Andrew Bird song, and you're left with brilliant prose ('across the great chasms and schisms and the sudden aneurysms'), vignettes about mentally fending off plane crashes, infiltrating characters like the kings of Macedonia and Lou Dobbs, and titles such as 'Yawny at the Apocalyspe.' It's hard to believe that, really, his music reigns, but when Bird adds understated acoustic guitars, Wurlitzer and Rhodes, and his own mesmerizing pizzicato violin, his songs take on a progressive mood all their own. The Chicago Bird's tenth album ...
Buy Now	Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall (more) »rank: 988 by: Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane :Album Description:Australian pressing. This never-before heard jazz classic documents one of the most historically important working bands in all of Jazz history, a band that was both short-lived and, until now, thought to be frustratingly under-recorded. The concert, which took place at the famed New York hall on November 29, 1957, was preserved on newly-discovered tapes made by Voice of America for a later radio broadcast that were located at the Library of Congress in Washington DC earlier this year. Blue Note. 2005. :Every year sees a crop of newly ...	Buy Now	Sings Totally Blonde (more) »rank: 1498 by: Michael Bublé : :2008 enhanced CD containing sizzling swing from the coolest crooner in Pop featuring seven tracks recorded for the soundtrack of the 2001 film Totally Blonde plus six enhanced performances of Buble performing the tracks. Recorded when the singer was on the cusp of superstardom, this audio and video collection captures Michael Bublé at his charismatic, super-slick best, looking sharp and sounding sharper. Finger-poppin' fun, this album is essential Bublé. Metro.
Buy Now	A Night in San Francisco (more) »rank: 13312 by: Van Morrison :Album Description:Newly remastered sound and expanded packaging including lyrics of the Two CD set reissue of the 1994 album, recorded live A Night in San Francisco by Van Morrison. In contrast to these commercially-successful but not always critically acclaimed albums, the 1994 live double album, A Night in San Francisco was a 'tour-de-force', clearly demonstrating Morrison's talents and his influences in equal measure and reached #8 on the UK charts. The Rolling Stone magazine review states the album stands as: 'the culmination of a career's worth of soul-searching that finds ...	Buy Now	Best Of Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong (more) »rank: 1667 by: Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong : essential recording:Ella Fitzgerald's voice was satin to Louis Armstrong's sandpaper, but when you put them together on a single song, their chemistry was unimpeachable. This disc selects highlights from the three albums they made together at Verve (including their Porgy and Bess), and adds a spiffy live track from the Hollywood Bowl. Though they don't harmonize much (Armstrong's voice wasn't built for harmony), Ella's dignified swing and flashes of teasing wit play off Satchmo's gritty, good-humored roar symbiotically. The material is mostly lightweight Tin Pan Alley stuff (lots of ...
Buy Now	Givin' It Up (more) »rank: 8250 by: George Benson, Al Jarreau : :Not trusting the drawing power of its co-billed veterans, singer-guitarist George Benson and singer-'vocal percussionist' Al Jarreau, or the eventfulness of their teaming, the producers of Givin' It Up have hedged their commercial bets with a full array of guest stars. But none of the guest singers lifts the proceedings above a sleek professionalism--not Paul McCartney, who participates in a humdrum, album-ending jam on Sam Cooke's 'Bring It on Home to Me'; not the wonderful Jill Scott, who emulates Billie Holiday on a modest treatment of 'God Bless the Child'; ...	Buy Now	Astral Weeks (more) »rank: 4393 by: Van Morrison : essential recording:Never mind that Van Morrison is one of the most indelible songwriters of the 20th century--take each album on its own terms. On 1968's seminal Astral Weeks, a twentysomething Van Morrison can be found belting his gospelly, bluesy vocals in just as fine a form as he would be 20 years hence. In the sociopolitical context of the times, the album cried out about such ubiquitous '60s themes as cultural oppression and social upheaval. But it is Morrison's vocal dexterity and passion that maintains such timeless appeal. Take ...