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True Blue Music Picks
Big Band Essentials
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| Count Basie : Atomic Basie |
On October 21 and 22, 1957, Basie's band, sounding better than ever, went into the studio to cut 11 new volcanic Neal Hefti charts. Every tune became a classic, changing the course of this great band and this gifted composer-arranger.
Five additional tracks from those sessions, arranged by Jimmy Mundy, are added to this great sounding CD, subtitled "The Complete Atomic Basie". |
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$12.98
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| Count Basie : Chairman Of The Board |
| After two hit albums for Roulette dedicated to the music of Neal Hefti, Basie decided to feature the great composer/arrangers within his band for 1958's "Chairman Of The Board". Most of this album's 10 selections by Frank Foster, Thad Jones or Frank Wess exude a bluesy feel and became frequent and important tunes in the band's book for years to come. Foster's "Blues In Hoss' Flat" and Wess's "Segue In C"" are in the pantheon of great Basie charts. |
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$12.98
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| Count Basie : Complete Decca Recordings (3 CDs) |
| Covering `37 to `39, these are the first recordings of this great, path-breaking orchestra that included Jimmy Rushing, Lester Young, Herschel Evans, Dickie Wells, Buck Clayton, Freddie Green, Walter Page, and Jo Jones. |
| 3 CD |
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$39.98
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| Tony Bennett : Basie Swings, Bennett Sings |
| This swinging encounter produced great versions of "Anything Goes," "Chicago," "I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face" and "Life Is A Song." The CD includes a previously unissued version of Neal Hefti's "After Supper." |
| 1 CD |
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$12.98
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| Les Brown : And His Band Of Renown - Best Of The Capitol Years |
| Always overlooked for the excellent swing, jazz charts and soloists that his band had, Les Brown's orchestra was thought of as strictly a dance band. When he signed with Capitol in 1955, he boasted such players as Don Fagerquist, Wes Hensel, Dave Pell, Ronny Lang, Abe Most and Ray Sims. His final Capitol album in 1959 "The Les Brown Story" re-recorded many of his forties hits (including "Leap Frog" and "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm") in great stereo sound. The best of six albums and numerous singles on Capitol are included here. |
| 1 CD |
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$16.98
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| Duke Ellington : Blanton-Webster Band (1940–42): Never No Lament |
| This is the great Ellington band that brought swing into the modern era. Includes Ben Webster, Jimmy Blanton, Cootie Williams, Rex Stewart and Johnny Hodges. This newly remastered and expanded 3-CD set includes 70 classic masters and 5 alternate takes. |
| 3 CD |
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$39.98
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| Duke Ellington : Ellington At Newport 1956-The Complete Concert |
| One of the most important discoveries in recorded jazz! For the first time the actual live concert is presented in its entirety (and it's in stereo) plus studio performances that for over four decades served as what was known as Ellington At Newport. Newly found tapes by producer Phil Schaap provide us the opportunity to hear Paul Gonsalves' classic solo on "Diminuendo and Crescendo In Blue" with new clarity. Ellington introduced his three-part "Newport Suite" at the concert ("Function Junction"/"Blues To Be There"/"Newport Up"). |
| 2 CDs |
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$24.98
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| Gil Evans : Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions (Connoisseur Series) |
| This CD contains both albums that Gil Evans made for Pacific Jazz in 1958-59, "New Bottle, Old Wine" and "Great Jazz Standards." The discovery of three-track masters for the latter album has enabled us to master with greatly improved sound and present two of the tunes unedited for the first time. For these projects, Evans selected great jazz compositions from every era of the music and re-orchestrated them in his own style. Soloists include Johnny Coles, Curtis Fuller, Jimmy Cleveland, Steve Lacy, Cannonball Adderley, Budd Johnson, Ray Crawford, Chuck Wayne, Art Blakey and Elvin Jones. |
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$14.98
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| Art Farmer : Brass Shout/Aztec Suite (Connoisseur Series) |
| This 67-minute CD reissues for the first time two undeservedly overlooked 1959 United Artists LP by Art Farmer. Brass Shout, the first seven tracks, features a tentet with eight all-star brass players including Lee Morgan fueled by vivid Benny Golson arrangements, Percy Heath's bass and the drums of Philly Joe Jones or Elvin Jones on two standards and five jazz standards. The Aztec Suite is a tour de force by the great Afro-Cuban arranger Chico O'Farrill which puts Farmer in front of a full big band with three Latin percussionists. Brilliant writing and playing thoughout. |
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$14.98
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| Dizzy Gillespie : Complete RCA Victor Recordings |
| Contains the complete body of work by the Gillespie big band for Victor (1947-49), plus his 1946 septet with Don Byas and Milt Jackson (CD 1, #2,7-12),some of his sideman work for the label in the late '30s with Teddy Hill (CD 1, #3-5) and Lionel Hampton (CD 1, #6), as well as the 1949 Metronome All-Star session with Charlie Parker and Miles Davis (CD 2, #18-21). |
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$24.98
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| Benny Goodman : Carnegie Hall Concert |
| The entire 1938 concert is presented as it happened, along with comments made by Goodman for the original release of the album in 1950, unreleased performances on "Sometimes I'm Happy" and "If Dreams Come True," and an unedited version of the "Honeysuckle Rose" jam session. In addition to the Goodman band with Harry James, Ziggy Elman and Jess Stacy, and the quartet with Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson and Gene Hackett, Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams, Buck Clayton, Lester Young and Count Basie. |
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$24.98
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| Johnny Hodges : With Billy Strayhorn & Orch. |
| What could be better than Billy Strayhorn creating gorgeous settings for the rich, lyrical alto saxophone of Johnny Hodges. This December, 1961 session is mostly Ellington in personnel and repertoire. And an inspired Hodges soars on "Star Dust", "Azure", "Your Love Had Faded", "Jeep's Blues" and 7 more. |
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$15.98
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| Harry James : Bandstand Memories |
| A magnificent representation of what the great Harry James Orchestra was all about through never-before-heard live broadcast recordings from 1938 to 1948, all in superior sound. Some of the many highlights include 7 heretofore undocumented Frank Sinatra performances, none of which had been commercially recorded by Sinatra & James; a March 1940 interview with James; fresh performances of some of Harry's classic hits like "Cherry", "Strictly Instrumental", and his theme "Ciribiribin"; and great soloists like Corky Corcoran and Willie Smith and arrangers Jimmy Mundy, Johnny Richards, Neal Hefti and Billy May. |
| 3 CD |
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$35.98
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| Harry James : Trumpet Blues - The Best Of Harry James |
| This collection contains 16 of Harry James' greatest records, made between 1955 and '58 with Helen Forrest, Willie Smith, Corky Corcoran and Buddy Rich among the cast and arrangements by Jack Mathias, Jimmy Mundy, Ernie Wilkins and others. From hi-fi remakes of his '30s hits like "Trumpet Blues" and "Ciribiribin" to contemporary charts like "Blues On A Count" and "Barn 12, " this set covers the entire career of this amazing trumpeter and bandleader. |
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$12.98
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| Charles Tolliver : Emperor March: Live At The Blue Note |
| This second album by Charles Tolliver's resurrected big band is thrilling. Recorded live at New York's Blue Note Club in July 2008, the band tears through 6 amazing Tolliver charts.
Soloists include Billy Harper, Marcus Strickland and Stanley Cowell. |
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$16.98
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| Various Artists : G. I. Jukebox |
| Five CDs worth of rare AFRS broadcast material, radio transcriptions and live air checks from 1938 thru 1946 featuring many of the top vocalists and swing and sweet bands of that period. Much of the package contains performances by Count Basie, Woody Herman, Jimmy Dorsey, Stan Kenton, Bob Crosby and Artie Shaw and some of the first performances of Jerry Gray leading the Glenn Miller AAF Band right after the disappearance of their leader. The sound quality is superb throughout. |
| 5 CDs |
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$39.98
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