Honegger: Judith; Milhaud: La Création Du Monde

BOGGAMASTA

The wide open City Of Kansas with it's unregulated bars and clubs helped nurture the development of Jazz in America. This Compilation offers 25 examples of Kansas based performers including, Bennie Moten, Jay McShann, Count Basie, Mary Lou Williams and Big Joe Turner.

With the enormous success Hampton enjoyed with the Benny Goodman Quartet he was able to secure recording sessions of his own. Utilizing the cream of Jazz musicians he laid down an extraordinary body of small group recordings between 1937 and 1940,25 of which are featured on this collection. Tracks include 'Jiving' the Vibes', 'Jack the Bellboy', '12th Street Rag', 'Wizzin' the Wiz' and 'Ring Dem Bells'. Acrobat. 2003.

A tribute to the legendary Harlem night-club of the 30's. The greats of black music played to an all-white audience in the famous club owned by New York gangsters. Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway led the housebands at various times. All the tracks feature acts who performed at the club during it's heyday. Tracks include; "Cotton Club Stomp" - Duke Ellington, "Stormy Weather" - Ethel Waters, "Fifteen Minute Intermission" - Cab Calloway, "West End Blues" - Louis Armstrong, "Your Heart And Mine" - the Nicholas Brothers. Acrobat. 2003.

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TRIPTYKON

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LEOSIA

COLOURS OF CHLOE

SEXTET

The Original DEBUT Recordings 1964 & 1967The legendary recordings by the TCJQ for the Danish DEBUT label have been out of print for more than a couple of decades. This double CD-set including the two original LP releases is not only the historical document but also recaptures the excitement that Scandinavia faced in the early 60s by the new wave jazz, which is still strikingly fresh today.

Martin Jacobsen 36, a new Danish saxophone star lives in Paris and performs there as well as in all the major cities of Europe. His quartet featuring American guitarist Doug Raney has been enjoying great reception wherever they played. “… Two acclaimed musicians …performed with a quartet de luxe, have chances to surprise many a listener!” (Jazz Valley, France) With this his impressive debut album we all have chance to hear how one of the most current and brilliant jazz groups in European continent sounds.

Long considered as one of the Big Apple's most in demand sidemen, in recent years alto-tenor saxophonist Dick Oatts has stepped out as a leader. In this his fifth effort as a leader for SteepleChase seven out of the eight tunes are originals. The band is anchored by his long time rhythm section of Dave Santoro on bass and James Oblon on drums. On three of these tunes he is joined by SteepleChase stalwart pianist Harold Danko whom he first met and played with in the Thad Jones/ Mel Lewis Orchestra in the late seventies. Ken Dryden of the AMG All Music Guide describes Oatts as having a "fat confident tone." Indeed this is a saxophonist extrordinaire whose instrumental prowess is matched only by his compositional abilities.

The second volume of Inside Chicago series is extracted from a three-night live concert from the famous Jazz Showcase club at the Blackstone Hotel in downtown Chicago in February 1995. The music not only illustrates the recent history of strong Chicago jazz but also gives us the rare opportunity of enjoying the otherwise available-only-for-the-lucky-locals legends Von Freeman and Brad Goode’s exciting performance.

“A keen technician” who loves “to vary the pace on all of his own albums” (The Penguin Guide to Jazz On CD), Vic Juris chose here on this his latest recording for SteepleChase the spare and challenging trio format. Together with his long time friends and partners bassist Jay Anderson and drummer Jeff Hirshfield, Juris found a new artistic horizon. “The outcome is arguably Vic’s most powerful and compelling series of jazz statements, summing up his 35 years’ involvement with the guitar.” (Mark Gardner -linernotes

After a short stay in New York, Dexter returned to his favourite city of Copenhagen in June 1965 and resumed his career’s best and most productive period. This second volume of electrifying live recording finds Dexter with his all-time favourite rhythm section.

Volume 12 finds the familiar format of three-tenor front line in Rich Perry, Larry Schneider -both long respected members of the American jazz scene and Igor Butman, one of the most prominent from the Russian jazz scene. “… This seemed to be yet another of those magical dates where everything fell into place and a co-operative atmosphere prevailed so that nothing got in the way of the music ... ” (Mark Gardner – liner notes)

“…Dave Ballou, Greg Gisbert and Scott Wendholt pooled their considerable instrumental resources to fashion the fifth session in the SteepleChase landmark series documenting where contemporary jazz and some of its most distinctive voices are at these days. The contents of this CD, its predecessors and the sets to come suggest, most emphatically, that the music and its proponents are in fine shape and good heart…”. (Mark Gardner) On previous SteepleChase Jam Session series, CD Review’s Rick Finlay wrote: “…SteepleChase’s series of jam sessions drawing together the cream of the contemporary jazz world makes a refreshing change these days .…. highly recommended.”

With his quartet of almost 10 years’ close working relationship, Harold Danko gets the chance to engage his talent both as performer and as composer to the fullest. In this latest album composer Harold Danko invites us into his impressionistic night. “Harold Danko’s Nightscapes are drawn with insight and beauty and with his own distinctive touch of mystery….” (Mark Gardner – from the liner notes.)

INVOCATIONS / MOTH & THE FLAME

This re-issue is now available through Universal classic.

For his 5th leader album Tom Guarna selects his favourite titles from the bop repertoire. Backed by pianist Peter Zak, who is well versed in bop, and Zak's regular trio: bassist Paul Gill and drummer Willie Jones, Guarna achieves brilliant results with authenticity and creativity. “… Peter (Zak) shares with Tom a love and familiarity with the bop repertoire and has great admiration for such players from the genre as George Wallington, Bud Powell and Elmo Hope. Not forgetting hornmen like Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean, Miles Davis and John Coltrane. All those men were products of the well-spring of music that signalled an evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, surge towards a fresh course.” (Mark Gardner from the linernotes)

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Between 1992 and 1998, trumpeter Brad Goode recorded many of the club dates he played in Chicago. Most of these featured the eminent tenor saxophonist Von Freeman with Brad, other guest soloists and various rhythm sections. Scores and scores of hours of potent music were documented and from that vast "live" archive Mr Goode and SteepleChase producer Nils Winther have selected the cream for this series of "Inside Chicago" jazz CDs of which thi s is the 4th volume.