Leonard Feather Presents Mitchells and Joneses
 Artist: Mitchells Artist: Jones Bros Binding: Audio CD EAN: 8427328604444 Format: Import Original Release Date: 2007-05-08 Release Date: 2007-05-08 [... more]
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Jazz At The Phil
Some of Billie's best recordings: I don't have this actual disc, but I do have the 10-disc Verve box set, which includes everything on here. I'm not a huge fan of vocal jazz, but I make an exception for Billie Holiday. I have all her Verve, Columbia, [... more]
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Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation
best single study of jazz improvisation: This is the single most comprehensive study that's been done of jazz improvisation, and perhaps of any kind of improvisation, period. Berliner interviewed over 50 working jazz musicians-including name players such [... more]
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1933-1944 Wishing On The Moon
Get It For the Sound Quality: Why purchase another Billie Holiday compilation CD when you probably already own dozens? Well, for one, the sound quality on this compilation is certainly a cut or two above the rest. Hisses are noticeably absent while [... more]
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Story
There's only one King . . .: And it's not Elvis. No-- it's the great Nat King Cole. He had the most class and was the most versatile of all singers, as this fine album demonstrates so well. Cole was at Capitol Records from the beginning in the early 1940 [... more]
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Summit Meetings 1939-50
Artist: Metronome All Stars Artist: Esquire All Stars Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0356130250502 Format: Import Format: Best of Number Of Discs: 2 Original Release Date: 2003-06-24 Release Date: 2003-06-24 UPC: 356130250502 Tracks: Blue Lou \oTake 2\c Blue [... more]
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Love Supreme
love it: I loved this book. In fact I was just ordering a few extra copies to give as gifts to serious jazz connoisseurs when I came across this drivel from Rich Fontana in the customer reviews section. I felt that as a fan of both the album and the book, [... more]
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Weary Blues
From Amazon.com: Weary Blues is, above all, sexy--Harlem jazz meets the Southern blues of Bessie Smith and smoky rooms, speakeasies, and pleasantly dirty thoughts. Langston Hughes is not only one of the century's finest American poets; he was the voice [... more]
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Soul On Top
Labor of Love an overall success: Ofcourse the historians and deep fans know that James Brown has blended both light and heavy jazz into many of his compositions. Surely, it was the *jazz*-based solo by Maceo Parker on "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag& [... more]
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Brass Hits
From Amazon.co.uk: After Jimmy Blanton the next most important style- setting bass player in jazz was Oscar Pettiford. His mid-40s work is displayed on 22 of the 23 tracks here (due to a mistake in the selection, the two-part "Frankie And Johnny& [... more]
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King Of The Tenors
From Amazon.co.uk: It was the critic Leonard Feather who dubbed Ben Webster "the Clark Gable of the tenor saxophone, at once a brute and a hero". The opening two tracks of this 1953 vintage recording proves the point with a breathy, caressing & [... more]
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Trumpet Blues: The Life of Harry James
UNDERRATED BY SOME CRITICS, TOPS WITH HIS PEERS !: I originally bought this book when it came out in 1999 and actually spoke with Mr. Peter Levinson putting him on to several contacts when the book was in preparation. I have not chosen to send in my [... more]
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