George Benson was only 21 when, on May 1, 1964, he recorded his first album as a leader, the New Boss Guitar of George Benson. At that point, the guitarist had yet to become a huge name in jazz, although many of those who knew Benson agreed that he showed great potential. This is an impressive debut. The guitarist had developed a distinctive, recognizable sound on his instrument, and he plays with both feeling and technique on five Benson originals (including the sly "Shadow Dancers, " the exuberant "Rock-A-Bye, " and the earthy blues "I Don't Know") as well as interpretations of "Easy Living" and "Will You Still Be Mine." This album is historically important as well as rewarding.
NEW BOSS GUITAR
$31.49
Vinyl
FANTASY
Jul 15, 2014
FAN461.1
TWISTED BLUES 1
ABSTRACT LOGIX
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Nov 15, 2011
New York based plectorist extraordinaire Oz Noy makes his Abstract Logix debut with "Twisted Blues", his most eclectic album to date that displays his signature guitar sounds as well as for the first time showcases his profound love of blues, featuring Chris Layton and Reese Wynans of the legendary Steve Ray Vaughn Band. Oz is a chopsmeister of the highest order with a wealth of weapons in his trick bag. A master manipulator of tones and effects, he can deftly switch from lacerating single note work to Leslie-imbued organ stylings (a la Charlie Hunter) to jaw-dropping wah-wah-inflected lines. Sometimes within the same song (as he does so nonchalantly on the scintillating title track). And while he emigrated to New York City in 1996 from his native Israel, you'd swear he had a lengthy stopover in New Orleans by the sound of his authentic second line groover "Oh Really" featuring Allen Toussaint and his interpretation of the Meters' funk anthem, "Cissy Strut. " Twisted Blues was recorded partly in Austin which featured the legendary Eric Johnson on guitar, Chris Layton on drums, Roscoe Beck on bass, Reese Wynans on the organ. The New York Sessions featured the amazing Vinnie Colaiuta and Anton Fig on drums, Will Lee on Bass, John Medeski and Jerry Z on organ, Allen Toussaint on the piano and Ralph McDonald on percussion.
TWISTED BLUES 1
$16.49
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ABSTRACT LOGIX
Nov 15, 2011
ABLG32.2
KNEEDELUS
BRAINFEEDER
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$16.49
Jun 24, 2016
KNEEDELUS
KNEEDELUS
$16.49
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BRAINFEEDER
Jun 24, 2016
BRFE58.2
BIRD'S TICKET
ORIGIN RECORDS
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Jan 15, 2016
Dynamic saxophonist and composer Carlos Vega pursued his passion for jazz in school during the day while deeply entrenched in Miami's Latin music scene at night. The eclectic and electric musical experiences from that period helped form his unique approach that carried him through later work with Arturo Sandoval, Ira Sullivan, & Tito Puente. Moving to Chicago in 2005, his time spent there inspired his return from his Tallahassee home for the making of "Bird's Ticket," a set of ten Vega originals featuring four of Chicago's finest, with Victor Garcia on trumpet, Stu Mindeman on piano, Josh Ramos on bass and drummer Xavier Breaker.
BIRD'S TICKET
$16.49
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ORIGIN RECORDS
Jan 15, 2016
ORGI82708.2
ROAR OF 74
IMPORTS
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Dec 14, 2018
ROAR OF 74
ROAR OF 74
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IMPORTS
Dec 14, 2018
IMT0466505.2
Desire / Aleksandra Kurzak
Sony Masterworks
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$8.99
May 29, 2020
2020 release. "This is a dream come true. It's the new aspect of my career - maybe even my new face as a singer. I'm saying goodbye to most of the lighter repertoire I've done for 20 years. When I started singing, it was indeed my dream to do this sort of repertoire, but I really did think of it as a dream and I never thought I would actually sing such an incredibly beautiful role as Elisabetta on stage. When I think of the arias on this album, I felt in the past that I would never sing them. I was taught that I'm a coloratura soprano, and that doing characters such as the Queen of the Night ruled others out. But I've been in love with these arias since I first heard opera, and it's very touching for me that I'm now allowed to sing this music." (Aleksandra Kurzak)
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Desire / Aleksandra Kurzak
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$8.99
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Sony Masterworks
May 29, 2020
19075883262
MUSIC 3 - HERB ALPERT REIMAGINES THE TIJUANA BRASS
HERB ALPERT PRESENTS
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Dec 14, 2018
Vinyl LP pressing. For Music Volume 3: Herb Alpert Reimagines The Tijuana Brass, beloved and prolific musician Herb Alpert has revisited some of his most iconic songs with the Tijuana Brass, and transformed them. This reinvention of historic recordings like "A Taste Of Honey," "Lonely Bull," "Spanish Flea" and many more were "scrambled up," as Herb says. A mix of new arrangements, production, new studio takes and in some case even samples of the originals were used to make them fresh and surprising, and a way for Herb to continue sharing positivity with a world in need of it. The album also finds Herb continuing his partnership with producer Jochem van der Saag. Several of the songs on Music Volume 3 appeared on albums during an unprecedented run in 1966, when four Herb Alpert and Tijuana Brass releases were on the Billboard Top 10 at the same time. Music Volume 3 begins appropriately with "The Lonely Bull," Alpert's first smash hit. It includes a surprising mash-up, too - of "Spanish Flea" into "Rise," two famous songs blended together here for the first time.
MUSIC 3 - HERB ALPERT REIMAGINES THE TIJUANA BRASS
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HERB ALPERT PRESENTS
Dec 14, 2018
HBAT70219.1
GRANT'S FIRST STAND
NOT NOW UK
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$27.49
Jan 28, 2022
GRANT'S FIRST STAND
GRANT'S FIRST STAND
$27.49
Vinyl
NOT NOW UK
Jan 28, 2022
NNOW4858316.1
MATRIARCH OF THE BLUES
MUSIC ON VINYL
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$37.99
Jan 17, 2020
MATRIARCH OF THE BLUES
MATRIARCH OF THE BLUES
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MUSIC ON VINYL
Jan 17, 2020
MOVL2011847.1
BLACK SAINT & THE SINNER LADY
UNIVERSAL JAPAN
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Apr 29, 2022
Japanese UHQCD pressing. Universal. 2022.
BLACK SAINT & THE SINNER LADY
$16.99
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UNIVERSAL JAPAN
Apr 29, 2022
UNIJ3150103.2
AYAGUNA
OTA RECORDS
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$16.49
Feb 11, 2003
AYAGUNA
AYAGUNA
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OTA RECORDS
Feb 11, 2003
OTAR1010A.2
FUCK YO FEELINGS
LOMA VISTA
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Jan 17, 2020
Double vinyl LP pressing. Fuck Yo Feelings marks Glasper's first release of original music under his own name since ArtScience, the Robert Glasper Experiment's 2016 album, and his debut project on Loma Vista Recordings. Glasper has not only been been a member of other supergroups, including August Greene (with Common and Karriem Riggins) and R+R=NOW (with (Terrace Martin, Christian Scott, Derrick Hodge, Taylor McFerrin, Justin Tyson), he's also collaborated with Kendrick Lamar on To Pimp A Butterfly and Brittany Howard on Jaime. Among the names who show up on Fuck Yo Feelings: Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def), Herbie Hancock, Denzel Curry, Mick Jenkins, YBN Cordae, Terrace Martin, Bilal, Andra Day, Rapsody, Derrick Hodge, and Chris Dave.
FUCK YO FEELINGS
$33.99
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LOMA VISTA
Jan 17, 2020
LMVT859.1
KIND OF BLUE
SONY UK
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$36.49
Oct 19, 2018
UK Limited edition pressed on colored vinyl. Sony. 2018.
KIND OF BLUE
$36.49
Vinyl
SONY UK
Oct 19, 2018
SNUK8834917.1
BAD FOR ME
IMPORTS
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Aug 05, 2014
2014 limited edition Japanese pressing 24 bit digital remastering. Warner.
BAD FOR ME
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IMPORTS
Aug 05, 2014
IMT1182844.2
COIN COIN CHAPTER TWO: MISSISSIPPI MOONCHILE
CONSTELLATION
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$28.49
Sep 30, 2013
Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing including digital download. Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchild is the much-anticipated 2013 installment of Matana Roberts' unique and forward-looking project and it finds Roberts conjuring some of the most nuanced, thoughtful and substantial American liberation music of the 21st century.
COIN COIN CHAPTER TWO: MISSISSIPPI MOONCHILE
$28.49
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CONSTELLATION
Sep 30, 2013
CNST10098.1
PIANO SUTRAS
THIRSTY EAR
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$15.49
Sep 24, 2013
Piano Sutras is a landmark release for Matthew Shipp whose accolades rank him as being universally acclaimed, the most brilliant pianists of his generation and one of the most original stylists in Jazz history. This solo recording is both breathtakingly beautiful, deeply companionate and intellectually upending. If you want to know where Jazz is in the present and where it will be in the future, all you have to do is listen to this release. A tour de force.
PIANO SUTRAS
$15.49
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THIRSTY EAR
Sep 24, 2013
THI57207.2
COIN COIN CHAPTER TWO: MISSISSIPPI MOONCHILE
CONSTELLATION
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$15.99
Sep 30, 2013
Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchild is the much-anticipated 2013 installment of Matana Roberts' unique and forward-looking project and it finds Roberts conjuring some of the most nuanced, thoughtful and substantial American liberation music of the 21st century.
COIN COIN CHAPTER TWO: MISSISSIPPI MOONCHILE
$15.99
CD
CONSTELLATION
Sep 30, 2013
CNST10098.2
Take 2 - Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Symphonies 40 & 41
Sony Masterworks
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$18.99
Jan 17, 2008
This set is offered at a special price - two discs for the price of one.
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Take 2 - Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Symphonies 40 & 41
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Sony Masterworks
Jan 17, 2008
SONY63272
INVITATION TO OPENNESS: LIVE AT BIG TWIG
ORIGIN RECORDS
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Mar 18, 2022
Pianist Hal Galper disbanded his Ahmad Jamal-inspired trio in 2000 after a productive decade of steady touring and recording. Returning to 'the shed' for several years to work on concepts, teach and write, he came to realize that a rubato approach to time and movement-a concept he was first exposed to with Sam Rivers in the early '60s-was where he was being led. With bassist Tony Moreno & drummer Billy Mintz, Galper found able & willing partners to explore new territories in 2005, recording "Agents of Change" in 2006. The trio was the first stone cast in that direction for the eclectic pianist, a remarkable late career modernization that ushered in one of the most significant innovations in the art of the trio since Bill Evans' conception of equal partnership in the early '60s. This trio was a foray into a more melodic and beauty focused approach to rubato, before the more explosive and wide-roaming version portrayed by Galper's last touring trio of 2007-2019, with bassist Jeff Johnson and drummer John Bishop. "Invitation to Openness" was a brief return to the original rubato trio with Moreno & Mintz, recorded in 2008, live in upstate New York. This indomitable period of innovation, that so remarkably occurred a half century into his career, was enabled by his trio association with Marino and Mintz, so beautifully portrayed by the tracks contained within.
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