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 Return To Forever Returns - Live At Montreux 2008 DVDStanley Clarke, Chick Corea, Lenny White, Al Di Meola After a quarter century apart, the core line-up of the jazz quartet Return to Forever (Chick Corea, Lenny White, Stanley Clark, and Al Di Meola) reunited for a world tour in 2008. This remarkable concert film captures the foursome on stage at Montreux, playing bewitching renditions of "Vulcan Worlds," "Sorceress," "Romantic Warrior," and many others. |
 High Engery CDFreddie Hubbard Personnel: Freddie Hubbard (trumpet, flugelhorn); Dean Parks (guitar); Jules Chaikin (strings); Ernie Watts (flute, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Junior Cook (flute, tenor saxophone); Pete Christleib (bass clarinet, tenor saxophone), Dick Hyde, George Bohanon (trombone); George Cables (electric piano); Joe Sample (Clavinet, organ); Ian Underwood (ARP synthesizer); Kent Brinkley (bass instrument); Harvey Mason, Ralph Penland (drums); King Errisson (congas); Carmelo Garcia (timbales); Victor Feldman (percussion. |
 Time Out (50th Anniversary Edition) CDDave Brubeck Dave Brubeck/Dave Brubeck Quartet/The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Dave Brubeck (piano); Paul Desmond (alto saxophone); Eugene Wright (double bass, upright bass); Joe Morello (drums). Dave Brubeck's TIME OUT ranks alongside Miles Davis' KIND OF BLUE as one of the few advanced jazz masterpieces to achieve great commercial success. In fact, the widespread popularity of TIME OUT, with its cool-toned ambience, smooth style, and elements borrowed from classical music, helped make modern jazz a mainstream phenomenon. The ubiquitous "Take Five" may be overplayed, but that doesn't diminish the joy of its complex melodic hooks, its perfectly executed solos, or the swinging slink of its 5/4 signature. "Blue Rondo a la Turk" collages Mozart, cool swing, and Brubeck's own classically oriented piano style, and the airy, delicate "Everybody's Jumpin'" showcases the lyrical splendor of saxophonist Paul Desmond. With bassist Gene Wright and drummer Joe Morello keeping the tricky rhythms agile and swift, the Dave Brubeck Quartet blended complexity and accessibility for pure jazz pleasure on TIME OUT, an album everyone should own. |
 The Collection CDPaul Hardcastle Track Listing: Circle, The; Dancing Lights; Northern Lights; You May Be Gone; Slomotion; Acoustic Dreams; Ventura Highway; Desire; Valley Of The Harps; Moments In Time; Moon Trekin; Return Of The Rainman; Loves Theme; Journey |
 Sketches Of Spain (50th Anniversary Edition) CDMiles Davis The crown jewel of the epic Evans/Davis triptych that began with MILES AHEAD and PORGY AND BESS, SKETCHES OF SPAIN is as emotionally compelling as any performance in the trumpeter's remarkable body of works. Combining as it does the emotional gravity of two cultures--the deep song of flamenco music and the rich lament of the blues--SKETCHES OF SPAIN is a musical hybrid of enormous power and beauty. Gil Evans' immense canvas of orchestral colors inspires some of Davis' most deeply felt solo flights. He paints vast vistas of velvety, shimmering night sounds, and through it all runs the mountainous backbone of Spain's native rhythms and chants. The centerpiece of SKETCHES OF SPAIN is the Evans/Davis treatment of the second movement of Rodrigo's "Concierto De Aranjuez." Evans' charts engage Davis in a shifting, insistent dialogue, italicizing the trumpeter's subtle variations and timbral ecstasies with magnificent orchestral flourishes. The surreal patina of three flutes and harp, high muted trumpets and woodwinds, and subterranean trombones, French horns and tuba that define one of the main variations on the theme, is a majestic foil for Davis' expressive tones. |
 Mingus Ah Um (50th Anniversary Legacy Edition) CDCharles Mingus This remastered edition of MINGUS AH UM features six of the original tracks in unedited form and three bonus tracks. Digitally remastered using 20-bit technology by Mark Wilder and Rob Schwarz (Sony Music Studios, New York, New York). This is a Super Audio CD playable only on Super Audio CD players. One of the five essential Mingus albums to own, and even if you are not a jazz fan this is still worthy of being in any comprehensive collection. The opening track, "Better Git It In Your Soul," rushes along at a furious pace and then there is a wonderful change of tempo into an a cappella and handclap pause. It rolls on, of course, but the nature of this track reflects the nature of Mingus who never failed to experiment (even though sometimes he failed). The personnel comprises John Handy III, Shafi Hadi and Booker Ervin (saxophones), Horace Parlan Jr (piano), Willie Dennis and James Knepper (trombones) and Charles Richmond (drums). Mingus whoops, shouts and holds it all together and then turns the pace majestically on numbers such as "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat. |
 Sight CDAdam Rogers Most widely known as a first call sideman with the likes of the late Michael Brecker and Chris Potter, guitarist Adam Rogers is himself a composer of note, as he's documented on four prior Criss Cross recordings |
 Folk Art CDJoe Lovano Big-toned tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano is a truly unpredictable talent, constantly pushing into new directions and contexts for his playing. On FOLK ART, his 21st recording for Blue Note and first album of entirely original material, Lovano debuts a new band, Us Five. With two drummers, Lovano can utilize and explore both funk and Afro-Cuban rhythms and work them into a context that includes hard bop and the post-John Coltrane era innovations. Simply put, this is a powerful, rhythm-charged session where leader and band push the envelope without leaving the audience behind. |
 Of Song CDMarcus Strickland On his Criss Cross debut, tenor saxophonist Marcus Strickland offers a program of ballads, mixing original compositions and interpretations of classics - the songbook standard "What's New", Wayne Shorter's "Pinocchio", James Brown's "It's a Man's Man's W |
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