Recorded in NYC November 1988, this album is the first of the series of recordings SteepleChase undertook after a few years of pause from the New York recording scene. Saxophonist Gary Bartz returned to acoustic hard-bop around that time from fusion jazz having played in the 70’s Miles Davis group. “Gary Bartz convinces you his incisive alto would have fit with Monk himself - his ear-catching post-Bird cry, rhythmic snap and blues-sense would have put him in the pocket...he treats the material with the honour it deserves and the spirit it demands.” (Kevin Whitehead, Cadence)

“Frozen Music” was recorded in New York City 32 years ago and like most of Andy LaVerne’s releases this album has not lost its original energy and charm. Tenor and soprano saxophonist Rick Margitza was then a young rising star under contract with Blue Note. Andy was already a prolific composer who penned all the tunes of this album. Bassist Marc Johnson who was a member of Bill Evans’s last trio gave graceful and subtle coloring to LaVerne’s compositions. “Frozen Music, Andy LaVerne’s third album for SteepleChase, is a solid, modern blowing session...he makes skilful use of suspensions, pedal points, and ostinatos, which along with the music’s floating harmonies, give the soloists a wealth of elbow room...” (Mark Stryker, Cadence) “un disque du plus haut niveau musical.” (Henri Marchal – Spectacles)

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Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. The first of Sonny's albums for Impulse!, this 1965 collection caught Rollins at the peak of his creative powers, and is arguably the tenor hero's best for the label-an intense, freewheeling set, featuring classic takes on "On Green Dolphin Street" and "Three Little Words" in the company of Ray Bryant (piano), Walter Booker (bass) and Mickey Roker (drums).

Live archive release from the Jazz legend. Thelonious Monk Paris 1969 is a fascinating and important late-career document of the legendary Jazz pianist and composer in performance with his Quartet at the Salle Pleyel concert hall in Paris, France on December 15, 1969. The concert also featured a surprise guest appearance from renowned drummer Philly Joe Jones.

Trombone Shorty, 2011 Grammy Nominee, follows up his last album BACKATOWN, with his latest release FOR TRUE. The 14 track album includes appearances by Lenny Kravitz, Jeff Beck, Ledisi, Kid Rock and more!

Incognito album for sale by Spyro Gyra was released Jun 07, 1994 on the Amherst label. Recorded at Secret Sound Studio, New York. Personnel: Steve Love (guitar, electric guitar); Chet Catallo, Hiram Bullock, John Tropea (guitar); Peter Dimitriades, Matthew Raimondi, Harry Lookofsky (violin); Guy Lumia (viola); Jonathan Abramowitz, Jesse Levy (cello); Frederick Buldrini, Marvin Morgenstern, Lewis Eley, Richard Young, Regis Iandiorio, Harold Kohon (strings); Larry Williams, Tom Scott (flute, saxophone); Toots Thielemans (harmonica, synthesizer); Jay Beckenstein (saxophone, percussion); Gary Grant, Jerry Hey (trumpet, flugelhorn); William Frank Bill Reichenbach Jr. Incognito CD music contains a single disc with 8 songs.

Carnaval album for sale by Spyro Gyra was released Jun 07, 1994 on the Amherst label. All songs written by members of Spyro Gyra. Carnaval songs Live Recording Recorded at Secret Sound Studio and Power Station, New York. Carnaval album for sale Producers: Jay Beckenstein, Richard Calandra (tracks 1-8). Carnaval CD music Engineers: Michael Barry, Jack Malken, Neil Dorfsman. Personnel: Hiram Bullock, John Tropea (guitar, electric guitar); Chet Catallo, Rick Strauss (guitar); Harold Kohon, Matthew Raimondi, Richard Sortomme (violin, strings); Peter Simitriades, Sanford Allen, Harry Lookofsky (violin); Lamar Alsop, Guy Lumia (viola, strings); Jonathan Abramowitz (cello, strings); David Darling, Jesse Levy (cello); Jay Levy, Allen W.

Spyro Gyra, a jazz fusion band from Buffalo, NY formed in 1974 and created the framework for contemporary jazz in the 80s and 90s. Celebrating this milestone 50th anniversary of the band's formation, comes Jubilee, a new collection featuring 16 songs that capture the band's ever-expanding palette in it's first decade of recording (1978-87) and includes fan favorites "Shaker Song", "Morning Dance" which have had chart success in multiple countries plus tracks the band continues to perform across the globe. The new LP and CD contains never before seen photos from the band's early days and more recent world tours, liner notes from veteran music journalist Jonathan Widran and a newly recorded song, "50/50" - a riff on the title of the band's 1997 release 20/20, which marked 20 years and 20 albums.

Alternating Currents album for sale by Spyro Gyra was released Jun 07, 1994 on the Amherst label. Featured is great songwriting and playing, and nice work by keyboardist Tom Schuman. Alternating Currents songs - Paul Kohler Live Recording Recorded at Bear Tracks Recording Studio, Suffern, New York. Alternating Currents album for sale Personnel: Julio Fernandez (guitar); Jay Beckenstein (saxophone, lyricon); Tom Schuman (keyboards); Dave Samuels (vibraphone, marimba); Richie Morales (drums); Gerardo Velez (percussion). Recording information: Bear Tracks Recording Studio, Suffern, NY (1985). Photographer: William Coupon.

Morning Dance album for sale by Spyro Gyra was released Jun 07, 1994 on the Amherst label. Live Recording Personnel: Gordon Grody, Diva Gray, Lani Groves (vocals); John Tropea (guitar, electric guitar); Chet Catallo, Rick Strauss (guitar); Charles Libove, Matthew Raimondi, Harry Cykman, Harry Lookofsky (violin); Alfred Brown (viola); Charles McCracken (cello); Lew Del Gatto (flute); Jay Beckenstein (saxophone, alto saxophone, percussion); Michael Brecker (tenor saxophone); Randy Brecker (trumpet); John Clark (French horn); Tom Bones Malone (trombone); Tom Schuman (piano, electric piano, keyboards); Jeremy Wall (electric piano, keyboards, percussion); Suzanne Ciani (synthesizer); Dave Samuels (marimba, steel drum); Steve Jordan, Eli Konikoff, Ted Reinhardt (drums); Gerardo Velez (congas, bongos, percussion); Rubens Bassini (congas, percussion); Larry Fast (programming).

Access All Areas album for sale by Spyro Gyra was released Jun 07, 1994 on the Amherst label. All songs written or co-written by members of Spyro Gyro except Islands In The Sky (Jeremy Wall). Access All Areas songs An excellent live double album, it includes live versions of songs from early albums. Access All Areas album for sale - Paul Kohler Recorded live in Florida from November 17-19, 1983. Personnel: Chet Catallo (guitar); Jay Beckenstein (saxophone, percussion); Jeremy Wall (keyboards, percussion); Tom Schuman (keyboards); Dave Samuels (vibraphone, marimba); Eli Konikoff (drums); Gerardo Velez (percussion). Access All Areas CD music contains a single disc with 10 songs.

DUKE ELLINGTON - ALL THE HITS AND MORE 1927-54 - It's a comprehensive overview of his most successful output during a primary era of his career Duke Ellington was one of the most important and influential figures in the entire history of jazz, as pianist, bandleader, composer and innovator, his career spanning half century as the genre evolved from the early days of electric recording. However, while critics and commentators focus on his over-arching significance as a giant of the medium, it's easy to forget that he was a genius at composing tune and songs for the medium of the 3-minute 78rpm single, and during the first three decades of his career before rock 'n' roll changed the pop landscape irrevocably, he had more than 70 records that were credited as chart hits. This great-value 4-CD set comprised all those 77 recordings which are listed in recognised sources as hits, plus another 20 or so which are regarded as significant compositions which became standards, or were hits for other artists. It includes his No. 1s with "Three Little Words", "Cocktails For Two", "I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart", and the Billboard R&B No. 1s "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", "Sentimental Lady", "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" and "Main Stem", along with classics like "Mood Indigo", "Sophisticated Lady", "Moon Glow", "Solitude", "Caravan", "Take The 'A' Train" and "I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good". It's a comprehensive overview of his most successful output during a primary era of his career, and a great showcase for the artistry which made the Duke such a revered and iconic personality.

In 1958, the first issue of a new magazine named Jazz Review contained an essay by musicologist Gunther Schuller, titled "Sonny Rollins and Thematic Improvisation". The piece's premise was simple - to examine a single Rollins' solo on a recording called Blue 7 (heard on the saxophonist's iconic 1956 LP Saxophone Colossus), whose title gave away the basic structure of the performance - that of the back-bone of jazz, the twelve bar blues. Rollins was already one of the most talked-of jazzmen of his generation, seen by many as a genuine heir to Bebop's founding father Charlie Parker, but Schuller's painstaking analysis elevated him further still, to the rank of innovator whose blues improvisations had a level of compositional cogency of one "who spends days or weeks writing a given passage". Rollins, Schuller believed, had provided a defining example of the art of jazz. Yet, like all good critics, he was aware that such a performance didn't come out of nowhere. Although Blue 7 was undoubtedly a high spot, it was a peak that dominated a landscape littered with other such achievements. Indeed, it was just the latest in a series of classic blues solos Rollins had been setting down on record with his own groups and those led by others since the early 1950s. This new collection collates a selection of those great performances - the first ever issue to concentrate solely on Rollins; blues specialist. Well-regarded for his musical wit and penchant for oddball song choices, since Blue 7 remarkably little has been written about the great saxophonist's ability to wring pure invention from the most fundamental format in jazz, yet the blues (part of his artistic DNA since his days as a teenage Louis Jordan fan) has been at the back of all Rollins' stylistic shifts over a sixty year career. Packaged with period photographs and a fascinating booklet note by saxophonist Simon Spillett, this anthology charts a course through some of his greatest musical encounters - with other giants like Dizzy, Miles, Coltrane and Monk - as well as documenting his never-ending quest for the most stimulating of instrumental contexts. There are pianoless trios, a series of classy quartets and quintets and one especially memorable session, a two-piano sextet. Whatever the setting though, and whatever the tempo (which ranges from a roar through Sonnymoon For Two to the slow purr of Sumphin'), this is Sonny Rollins proving time and again that the blues is at the very core of his immense contribution to the music. Number of Discs: 2

FOUR CLASSIC ALBUMS

Four Classic Albums (2 CD) by Wes Montgomery

FOUR CLASSIC ALBUMS

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One of the more ideal ensemble combinations in jazz is the piano trio, with David Kikoski serving as a major proponent of the genre. For his fourth Criss Cross album, Kikoski leads a powerhouse trio with bassist James Genus & master drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts. This is easily Kikoski's best album to date, giving him space to romp through a diverse set of tunes, covering everything from Brazilian sambas to pop masterpieces by Frank Zappa & Brian Wilson.

Long renowned as a sideman for Roy Haynes, the astute & insightful pianist/composer Kikoski is finally coming into his own as a leader in a quartet setting, inc. Seamus Blake, Scott Colley & Jeff "Tain" Watts.

Winner in the International Thelonius Monk Competition in 1999 presents his 4th recording as a leader for Criss Cross, with a band made up of creative improvisers like Nasheet Walt's, Reid Anderson, Duane Eubanks, Ralph Brown & Sam Newsome.

Pianist has the ability to improvise lines that have the natural quality of an ear player, voiced & executed w. The sophistication & clarity of a conservatory-trained virtuoso, w. his quintet feat. Steve Wilson, Jim Rotondi, Peter Washington, Joe Farnsworth.

Two-saxophone setting is burning & atmospheric in the Cannonball & Coltrane mode, feat. Walt Weiskopf-sax, David Hazeltine-pno, Peter Washington-bss, Tony Reedus-drms.

Star-studded combination of two Thelonious Monk Competition first prize winners, Joshua Redman on tenor and trumpet player Ryan Kisor.

Pianist's quintet/trio w. Tom Harrell, Gary Smulya Dennis Irwin, and Kenny Washington, recorded January 2, 1990.

Coryell is the classic 1969 studio album that is known as the best Sounding Larry Coryell release. Rolling Stone - "Play this loud and your life might change forever". Out of print on vinyl until now. This deluxe package includes an OBI strip, Single album jacket, Printed inner sleeve, Original record labels and special Crystal Clear Rose Color Vinyl.

Classic 1974 from The Godfather of Fusion. This is the 1st studio album from The Eleventh House which was a jazz fusion group of the 1970s, led by the guitarist Larry Coryell. The album is Known as Coryell's "Finest Achievement". This deluxe package will include an OBI strip, gatefold album jacket, printed inner sleeve, original record labels and specialty color vinyl. Clear, Blue/Purple/Clear Swirl Color Vinyl

This album was recorded live on June 18, 1971, during the Jazz Festival at Montreux. This is one of the best Jazz Fusion live album... With Larry Coryell (guitar), Chuck Rainey (bass) & the famous Pretty Purdie (drums). A MUST HAVE ALBUM... in Marbled Pink & White vinyl LP.

Pianist's trio with Buster Williams on bass, and Lewis Nash on drums, recorded December 29, 1988 and January 2, 1989.

Not one to be typecast by a decidedly mainstream background that included stints with Wynton Marsalis & the Lincoln Center Jazz Orch., Wycliffe shows more sides to a versatility first hinted at by the the sounds of his album "The Gospel Truth". This new work finds his trombone in a number of settings, from funk to Ellington & even an impressive solo display. Joining him is Ryan Kisor, Victor Goines & Herb Harris.