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Common Ground
(more) »rank: 9852by: Paul Winter Consort
: essential recording:For the past 30 years, Paul Winter has been the foremost exponent of integrating sounds from nature into environmental-themed music to espouse an optimistic kinship with Planet Earth's myriad creatures. Fusing animal callings with jazz, orchestral, and choral arrangements, folk, and world music, Common Ground is a cohesive concept album with more than its share of beautiful music. Winter's mimicry and accompaniment of wolf and whale on soprano sax is eloquent, though the human vocal passages sometimes verge on a sanctimonious folkiness. His 'best of' collection, Wolf Eyes (which features various versions of about half of Common Ground's selections), is a ...
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Winter Light
(more) »rank: 9485by: Oregon
: essential recording:For the past 30 years, Paul Winter has been the foremost exponent of integrating sounds from nature into environmental-themed music to espouse an optimistic kinship with Planet Earth's myriad creatures. Fusing animal callings with jazz, orchestral, and choral arrangements, folk, and world music, Common Ground is a cohesive concept album with more than its share of beautiful music. Winter's mimicry and accompaniment of wolf and whale on soprano sax is eloquent, though the human vocal passages sometimes verge on a sanctimonious folkiness. His 'best of' collection, Wolf Eyes (which features various versions of about half of Common Ground's selections), is a ...
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Music for Sound Healing
(more) »rank: 35799by: Steven Halpern
:Album Description:This collector's edition provides a perfect introduction to the career of this pioneer in the field of sound healing. Healing music -- music that Steven Halpern has prescribed for over 30 years -- is now recommended by leading health experts, including Dr. Andrew Weil and Dr. Deepak Chopra. This definitive anthology features electric piano, grand piano, flute, harp and angelic choir. Of special interest is a heart-opening version of Pachelbel's 'Canon in D Major.' This music is ideal for meditation, massage and relaxation.
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Pete Fountain Presents the Best of Dixieland
(more) »rank: 9444by: Pete Fountain
:Album Description:This collector's edition provides a perfect introduction to the career of this pioneer in the field of sound healing. Healing music -- music that Steven Halpern has prescribed for over 30 years -- is now recommended by leading health experts, including Dr. Andrew Weil and Dr. Deepak Chopra. This definitive anthology features electric piano, grand piano, flute, harp and angelic choir. Of special interest is a heart-opening version of Pachelbel's 'Canon in D Major.' This music is ideal for meditation, massage and relaxation.
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Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 17: Bongo Land
(more) »rank: 65350by: Various Artists
:Album Description:This collector's edition provides a perfect introduction to the career of this pioneer in the field of sound healing. Healing music -- music that Steven Halpern has prescribed for over 30 years -- is now recommended by leading health experts, including Dr. Andrew Weil and Dr. Deepak Chopra. This definitive anthology features electric piano, grand piano, flute, harp and angelic choir. Of special interest is a heart-opening version of Pachelbel's 'Canon in D Major.' This music is ideal for meditation, massage and relaxation.
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The Essential Miles Davis
(more) »rank: 40614by: Miles Davis
: :Trumpeter and bandleader Miles Davis was a major catalyst for the evolution of modern music. This two-CD set--with tracks from the Savoy, Capitol, Blue Note, Prestige, Columbia, and Warner Bros. labels from 1945 to 1986--is an excellent sampler of his limitless creative genius. It features a who's who of the greatest names in the music: drummers Max Roach, Philly Joe Jones, and Jimmy Cobb; bassists Paul Chambers and Ron Carter; pianists Red Garland, Bill Evans, and Herbie Hancock; and alto and tenor saxophonists Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, and Wayne Shorter. Davis's middle-register trumpet accommodated a myriad of styles, from the bebop classic 'Now's ...
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Ahmad's Blues
(more) »rank: 16531by: Ahmad Jamal
: :Trumpeter and bandleader Miles Davis was a major catalyst for the evolution of modern music. This two-CD set--with tracks from the Savoy, Capitol, Blue Note, Prestige, Columbia, and Warner Bros. labels from 1945 to 1986--is an excellent sampler of his limitless creative genius. It features a who's who of the greatest names in the music: drummers Max Roach, Philly Joe Jones, and Jimmy Cobb; bassists Paul Chambers and Ron Carter; pianists Red Garland, Bill Evans, and Herbie Hancock; and alto and tenor saxophonists Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, and Wayne Shorter. Davis's middle-register trumpet accommodated a myriad of styles, from the bebop classic 'Now's ...
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Bossa Nova Brasil
(more) »rank: 28071by: Various Artists
: :Trumpeter and bandleader Miles Davis was a major catalyst for the evolution of modern music. This two-CD set--with tracks from the Savoy, Capitol, Blue Note, Prestige, Columbia, and Warner Bros. labels from 1945 to 1986--is an excellent sampler of his limitless creative genius. It features a who's who of the greatest names in the music: drummers Max Roach, Philly Joe Jones, and Jimmy Cobb; bassists Paul Chambers and Ron Carter; pianists Red Garland, Bill Evans, and Herbie Hancock; and alto and tenor saxophonists Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, and Wayne Shorter. Davis's middle-register trumpet accommodated a myriad of styles, from the bebop classic 'Now's ...
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Blues and Roots
(more) »rank: 39722by: Charles Mingus
: essential recording:Bassist Charles Mingus was always ready for a good fight. In the liner notes to this disc, Mingus says he wanted to respond to critics who said he didn't swing enough. And reply he did. Mingus gave whoever these absurd quibblers were some of the most ecstatic blues ('Moanin'' and 'Cryin Blues'), gospel ('Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting'), and Dixieland ('My Jelly Roll Soul') the jazz world has ever heard. Along with his striking original compositions, the instrumental combination in Mingus's nonet remains unconventional: the frontline included four saxophonists and two trombonists without the counterweight of a trumpeter. The leader's sliding-octave bass ...
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Ultra-Lounge: Wild, Cool & Swingin' - Artist Series Vol 1
(more) »rank: 4811by: Louis Prima
: :The back of this two-CD set may say 'File under Lounge,' but frankly, lounging will be the very last thing on your mind once you put Louis and Keely on. It's simply impossible to stand still while the duo, backed by Sam Butera and the Witnesses, gets going. When Keely sings 'Hey boy, I can really cook,' there's a tiny chance she's talking about something that takes place in the kitchen, but the galloping bass line behind her says that she really belongs to the dance floor. Whoo-hee! Cole Porter's 'Just One of Those Things' is taken at a frenetic pace--do these people ...
