Jazz trombonist Joseph Bowie was 22 years young when this live album was recorded. It was his second album and he was establishing his own name, his brother Lester Bowie was already internationally renowned. Shortly after Joseph would form Defunkt. Co-leader Oliver Lake also heralded from BAG, the St. Louis music collective. The extraordinary flutist/saxophonist would co-found The World Saxophone Quartet the year following this Toronto concert. "What Bowie and Lake played was an impassioned and demanding music of the moment that responded as much to what was written on their lead sheets or to their spontaneous concepts as it did to the ambiance of the moment." - Coda Magazine, June 1976

Solo pianist live in Toronto 1989.

Berger & Holland were two of the first Europeans to find musical homes for themselves deep in American free jazz, and these improvised duets from 1976 show just how comfortable they were. Berger plays piano, vibraphone & balafon, while Holland plays bass. The compositions are tonal, and as the title insists, it's all about time. It's roots go deep, all the way to Africa, and the overlapping of rhythms suggest the minimalism of Reich, Riley & Glass. Berger's forte is rhythmic dialogue, and the subtle time shifts that are often a music's undercurrent are fore-grounded here.

Known by friends as Humph, trumpeter Humphrey Littleton was an English jazz musician who formed his first band in 1936 at the age of 15. He was inspired by Louis Armstrong who subsequently referred to Littleton as "that cat in England who swings his ass off." in the 50's Littleton shifted from New Orleans style Jazz to Swing Jazz and recorded with Buck Clayton. He remained active throughout his long life as a musician, record producer, broadcaster and cartoonist. This session was recorded in 1983 and features Humph on trumpet and clarinet with a Canadian band featuring Jim Galloway, soprano & baritone sax, clarinet; Ed Bickert, guitar; Neil Swanson, bass; Terry Clarke, drums.

In 1976 George Lewis' association with Muhal Richard Abrams and the AACM led to recordings with Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Braxton and a tour with Count Basie. Gradually his startling musicianship and the time-honored jazz virtues of a mellow tone and driving sense of rhythm, harnessed to a soaring imagination and technique became known to a growing number of listeners. Lewis came to play at A Space in Toronto his first solo concert and record this album. On "Toneburst (Piece for Three Trombones Simultaneously)", Lewis overdubbed all three trombone parts in the studio. The rest is solo.

This December 1977 recording features two of the most prominent AACM musicians, Roscoe Mitchell and Anthony Braxton. Mitchell's composition "run the gamut, beginning with the darkly gorgeous opener that features Braxton's contrabass clarinet nestling evocatively beneath the composer's earthy flute, Mitchell's other pieces investigate the sparer, more abstract realm, as the duo's wide variety of reeds populate the sonic environment with scattered moans, squeaks and pops. Overall, this is a fine meeting between two of the most forward-looking thinkers and players in the music. Recommended. " - Brian Olewnick, allmusic. Com Anthony Braxton also contributes three compositions.

GRINDHOUSE cinemas could once be found in the sleaziest and run-down areas of America's grimiest cities. New York's 42nd Street was one of the most famous trash pit hangouts for denizens of the lower depths. From dusk 'till dawn the theatres would screen a mind-boggling assortment of movies featuring lashings of sex, gore and violence - and if you were lucky, you'd get all three! SEE for the first time ever on DVD in America you can now sit back and take a twisted trip back to the glory days of the sleazy 60s and 70s for a roaring rampage through a two-hour hand-picked collection of some of the most insane examples of trailer trash ever to slash and burn their way through a Grindhouse cinema projector. MARVEL at the fact that most ot the actual films themselves could never live up to the jaw dropping lunacy of these incredible trailers, some of which can today be considered true masterpieces in advertising and marketing. With their often hilarious voice-overs and mind-bending taglines, plus all the best bits from the movies themselves, they add up to one thing - sheer entertainment! BE AMAZED that Contemporary Directors such as Quentin Tarantino (GRINDHOUSE), Eli Roth (HOSTEL) and Rob Zombie (THE DEVIL'S REJECTS) have all since revisted these movies and have made their own supercharged movies relying heavily on the essence of many of these seventies Grindhouse cinema classics. Tarantino in particular has drawn a huge amount of his inspiration from these movies and trailers in many of his films, so we've included some of his favorites here - see if you can spot them! 663390000359 ITRV9359DVD 26824338 12.79 19.95 .16 INTERVISION PICTURE DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE HORROR / SCI-FI / FANTASY 08/12/2014 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/4/9/2/2752946.jpg 2 1 N SOULS AT SEA SOULS AT SEA A ship captain is tried for the murder of seventeen crew members after a tragic accident at sea in this rousing adventure tale about the slave trade in 1842. Gary Cooper top lines a cast that includes George Raft, Frances Dee, Harry Carey and Robert Cummings. Directed by Henry Hathaway (True Grit, 1969, Airport, 1970) and nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Art Direction, Best Music Score and Best Assistant Director. 025192139475 USMD9213947DVD 26941080 19.19 21.99 .15 UNIVERSAL DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE ACTION / ADVENTURE 08/05/2014 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/11/2127811-3351282.jpg 0 1 N ASIA EXTREME 3: THAI HORROR FILMS ASIA EXTREME 3: THAI HORROR FILMS This Box features 3 terrifying horror films from Thailand: GHOST OF MAE NAK A pair of young newlyweds acquires an old abandoned house in Bangkok that soon brings them into contact with Mae Nak, a vengeful spirit of horror and despair. While Mae Nak's ghost protects the couple from unscrupulous visitors, it soon becomes apparent that she expects a terrible favor in return. Only by setting Mae Nak's spirit free will the couple have any chance of surviving her deadly wrath. THE VICTIM Ting is an aspiring actress who dreams of becoming famous. One day the police ask her to help solve a murder case by portraying the victim in the reenactment of the crime. Ting relishes the opportunity and is quickly asked to recreate fatal experiences of other victims. Now a local celebrity, Ting is invited to reenact a very high-profile murder case. The victim is a former Miss Thailand and the murder especially gruesome and peculiar. However, this reenactment is not like the others as Ting to her horror, genuinely feels the terrible pain and suffering that the murdered beauty queen endured. Frantically searching for answers, Ting fears she herself is in danger of becoming the next victim. P While growing up in rural Thailand, a young and beautiful orphan girl is taught the mysterious art of dark magic by her grandmother. When her grandmother falls sick, young Dau travels to Bangkok looking for work in order to earn enough money for medicine. She lands a job as an exotic dancer at a go-go club. Hesitant at first and ridiculed by the other dancers, circumstances force Dau to become an adult before her time and ultimately the most popular and eerily seductive dancer at the club. Jealousies ensue and as her magic gets darker, the young girl gradually loses control as something abhorrently evil and wicked takes over. 738329151324 PDTN1513DVD 26976303 19.19 29.95 .71 PALISADES TARTAN DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE HORROR / SCI-FI / FANTASY 10/07/2014 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/2/7/4/2774722.jpg 5 3 Y SIDEWALK STORIES SIDEWALK STORIES A young artist living in New York, on the fringes. Of the financial district and it's rushing crowds, tries to make a living sketching passers-by on the street. He survives on his meager means and has found refuge in an abandoned building. One night, on the corner of a back alley, he finds a little girl whose father has just been murdered. While struggling to take care of her, he meets a young rich woman who immediately falls in love with this awkward couple. 738329145729 CAKV1457DVD 26975962 16.75 24.95 .15 CARLOTTA DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE COMEDIES 10/07/2014 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/3/7/4/2774734.jpg 0 1 N CHARLES,RAY EARLY YEARS 5026310114621 JDC146.2 26937052 4.13 6.98 .25 JDC RECORDS COMPACT DISCS POP R&B / SOUL / FUNK 08/12/2014 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/2/5/7/2757526.jpg 0 1 N KJ BACKYARD GROOVE LIVE AT JAZZ FEST 2014 639266943136 MKMC3136.2 26808239 15.77 23.98 .25 MUNCK MUSIC COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 07/14/2014 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/8/4/9/0/2750948.jpg 0 1 N MASAKOWSKI,SASHA LIVE AT JAZZ FEST 2014 639266943105 MKMC3105.2 26808574 15.77 23.98 .10 MUNCK MUSIC COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 07/14/2014 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/4/9/0/2750945.jpg 0 1 N MORAN,JASON ALL RISE: A JOYFUL ELEGY FOR FATS WALLER ALL RISE: A JOYFUL ELEGY FOR FATS WALLER is a collaboration with the vocalist Meshell N'Degeocello that recasts the music of the legendary jazz entertainer Fats Waller as a modern dance party. The album which was produced by N'Degeocello and Blue Note Records president Don Was is the ninth in a formidable catalog that Moran has been building on Blue Note since 1999. ALL RISE features Moran hosting a changeable cast of musicians that includes vocalists N'Degeocello and Lisa E. Harris, his longtime trio the Bandwagon featuring bassist Tarus Mateen and drummer Nasheet Waits, and a funky horn-inflected ensemble anchored by drummer Charles Haynes that features trumpeter Leron Thomas and trombonist Josh Roseman, as well as guest saxophonist Steve Lehman. The album was recorded and mixed by Bob Power, known for honing the sound on classic hip hop records by a Tribe Called Quest, Common and the Roots. 602537534296 BLUNB001926102.2 26943329 12.09 13.99 .20 BLUE NOTE RECORDS COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 09/23/2014 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/1/5/5/2/2752551.jpg 0 1 N PLUS GRANDS SUCCES COUNTRY / VARIOUS PLUS GRANDS SUCCES COUNTRY / VARIOUS 064581783523 IMT1108581.2 26856735 17.14 26.99 .25 IMPORTS COMPACT DISCS POP ROCK V/A COMPILATIONS 07/08/2014 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/3/4/6/1/2751643.jpg 0 1 N FUKUMA,KOTARO UNTITLED Fukuma Kotaro - Mussorgsky Pictures At An Exhibition - Russian Piano - Japan CD Japanese pressing. Columbia. 2014. A third album that Kentaro Fukuma challenged the Russian program. 4988001765622 IMT1108819.2 26858104 17.14 26.99 .25 IMPORTS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 09/30/2014 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/0/8/1/2751804.jpg 0 1 N MORI,MAKI AVE MARIA Japanese SACD pressing. Avex. 2014. 4988064258574 IMT1110251SACD 26860442 26.17 39.99 .18 IMPORTS SUPER-AUDIO CD CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 10/07/2014 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/1/6/0/2/2752061.jpg 0 1 N SPINA,GIAMPIERO TRIO DANZA DELLE FOGLIE 8025965005053 IMT1115926.2 26861586 15.34 23.99 .19 IMPORTS COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 07/15/2014 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/1/0/2/2/2752201.jpg 0 1 N BOVISA NEW ORLEANS JAZZ BAND LIVE IN CAFFE' DORIA MILAN 8025965005091 IMT1115953.2 26861609 15.34 23.99 .25 IMPORTS COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 07/15/2014 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/3/0/2/2/2752203.jpg 0 1 N HARRIS,KARLA SINGS THE DAVE & IOLA BRUBECK SONGBOOK 099402637921 SUM637.2 26826202 11.05 15.99 .18 SUMMIT RECORDS COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 02/10/2015 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/1/8/2/2752814.jpg 0 1 N CHEF CHEF When gifted Chef Carl Casper (Jon Favreau) suddenly quits his demanding job at a trendy LA restaurant, he's on his own to pick up the pieces of his once promising career. Finding himself in Miami, he decides to team up with his successful ex-wife (Sofia Vergara), best friend (John Leguizamo) and son (Emjay Anthony) to launch a no-frills food truck business. Taking to the road, Carl reignites his passion for the kitchen and, along the way, discovers a renewed zest for life and love. 025192217777 MHV61130279DVD 26826493 5.72 9.99 .16 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE COMEDIES 09/30/2014 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/6/9/2/2752962.jpg 38 1 N UNGUARDED MOMENT UNGUARDED MOMENT In a rare dramatic role, Esther Williams stars as a high school teacher stalked by a peeping tom who might be the same homicidal sex fiend wanted by the police. Based on a story by Rosalind Russell and Larry Marcus, the Unguarded Moment is a moody melodrama that co-stars John Saxon in one of his first major roles and George Nader as the investigating detective. 025192138706 USMD9213870DVD 26941011 19.19 21.99 .16 UNIVERSAL DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE MYSTERY / SUSPENSE / THRILLER 08/05/2014 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/03/2127803-3351259.jpg 2 1 N RAVEN RAVEN A wealthy judge coaxes the brilliant but eccentric neurological surgeon Dr. Vollin (Lugosi), who also has an obsessive penchant for Edgar Allen Poe, out of retirement to save the life of his daughter, a dancer crippled and brain damaged in an auto wreck. Vollin restores her completely, but also envisions her as his Lenore, and cooks up a scheme to kidnap the woman and torture and kill her fianc� and father in his Poe-inspired dungeon. To do his dirty work, Vollin recruits a wanted criminal (Karloff), and turns him into a hideous monster to guarantee his subservience. 025192139451 USMD9213945DVD 26941066 13.95 15.99 .16 UNIVERSAL DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE HORROR / SCI-FI / FANTASY 08/05/2014 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/10/2127810-3351280.jpg 0 1 N METALLICA SOME KIND OF MONSTER Reissue of this 2004 documentary film from the Heavy Metal maestros. In SOME KIND OF MONSTER, Metallica is forced to examine their nature and their very existence as bassist Jason Newsted quits the band and frontman James Hetfield abruptly leaves the group to enter a rehabilitation facility due to alcohol abuse. Metallica's management Q-Prime hires 'performance-enhancing coach' Phil Towle to help the group better understand one another as friends, bandmates, and human beings. The movie features interviews, rehearsal and concert footage of the band. It also features the audition process as the band searches for a new bassist. Well received by critics and fans, SOME KIND OF MONSTER won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature. This edition also includes deleted scenes, footage from film festivals and official unveilings, music videos, and more. 097368863743 WEME223DVD 26991597 10.49 14.98 .23 WE'RE METALLICA DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE DOCUMENTARY ROCK 11/24/2014 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/56/2127856.jpg 114 2 N ALPHA & OMEGA: A HOWL - IDAY ADVENTURE ALPHA & OMEGA: A HOWL - IDAY ADVENTURE Kate & Humphrey and their three wolf cubs (Smokey, Claudette and Runt) are happily preparing to celebrate their first winter holidays together when their smallest cub, Runt, mysteriously disappears. They must now go on a new journey across the wilderness to find Runt before the winter festivities begin at home. It's their greatest adventure yet, filled with both action and suspense as well as plenty of the humor and heartwarming moments first theatrical release. While their adventure does not go exactly as planned, in the end Kate & Humphrey discover that 'Home is where the Family Is.' 031398179023 LGT44223BR 26749372 9.77 14.99 .18 LIONS GATE BLU-RAY MOVIE CARTOONS & ANIMATION 10/07/2014 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/1/4/8/2748414.jpg 0 1 N MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST Seth MacFarlane directs, produces, co-writes and plays the role of the cowardly sheep farmer Albert, who backs out of a gunfight, causing his fickle girlfriend to leave him for another man. When a mysterious and beautiful woman rides into town, she helps him find his courage and they begin to fall in love. But when her husband, a notorious outlaw, arrives seeking revenge, the farmer must put his newfound courage to the test. 025192212772 MHV61129806DVD 26750262 5.72 9.99 .21 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE COMEDIES WESTERNS 10/07/2014 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/1/3/8/8/2748831.jpg 25 1 N BEYOND THE DARKNESS 1977-01 / O.S.T. BEYOND THE DARKNESS 1977-01 / O.S.T. 2014 collection from the Italian outfit. BEYOND THE DARKNESS is an anthology of the second half of the career of the composers Goblin, perhaps best known for the propulsive, labyrinth scores which illuminate the horror masterpieces of Italian film director Dario Argento. Goblin's genius lies in skillfully combining elements of Progressive Psychedelia with Jazz-Rock, Eastern European Folk music and the Baroque. Their music often displays an eerie fairy tale quality that underscores tensions within a film to great effect. If Bella Casa's 2012 box set, THE AWAKENING documented Goblin's formative years, this edition comprises selections from ten films scored by the group across a twenty-five year period from 1977, culminating in Non Ho Sonno the Argento thriller for which this remarkable aggregation reformed to help create. 5013929371422 IMT5689539.2 26890937 9.92 15.99 .25 IMPORTS COMPACT DISCS POP SOUNDTRACKS & FILM SCORES 09/23/2014 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/8/2/8/3/2753828.jpg 1 1 N TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD / O.S.T. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD / O.S.T. Digitally remastered and expanded. Elmer Bernstein's score of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, a film which with charm, dignity, and a sense of real values is a landmark in American cinema history. Elmer Bernstein's music is reflective of the qualities of enlightenment and humanity that are personified by Gregory Peck's Atticus. The range of action with which the composer had to work was wide. Bernstein created a score of music that captures the essence of the people and the situations. It is a monument of taste and subtlety. On the bonus BLUES AND BRASS, Bernstein's exquisite arrangements are realized by an all-star assortment of outstanding West Coast musicians of the day, including Andre Previn, Shelley Manne, Bud Shank, Howard Roberts, Dave Pell, Bill Holman, Maynard Ferguson and Jack Marshall and the result is as magical as one might expect. It's really a travesty that this finely crafted mid-century document has been out of print for more than five decades. 5013929327832 IMT5689529.2 26890838 6.31 9.99 .25 IMPORTS COMPACT DISCS POP SOUNDTRACKS & FILM SCORES 09/23/2014 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/3/8/3/2753834.jpg 0 1 N EVERYTHING HAPPENS AT NIGHT EVERYTHING HAPPENS AT NIGHT Two competing reporters, one British and one American, discover a political peacekeeper who was presumed assassinated and his ice-skating daughter. As both reporters pursue the story, their affections for the daughter grow. But all are place in danger when the journalists inadvertently reveal the fathers location. 024543952527 FXMD395252DVD 26863306 19.19 21.99 .15 FOX MOD DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE DRAMA 07/22/2014 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/94/2121294-3351061.jpg 0 1 N TATE,BUDDY TEXAS TENOR The great Texas tenor delivers the goods on this 1978 quartet session featuring the same rhythm section of Wray Downes (piano), Dave Young (bass) and Pete Magadini (drums) that played with Don Menza on the reissue of Bones Blues (SAC 4004). Tate's first big break came in 1939 when at the age of 26 he joined the Count Basie band and took a killer solo on Rock A Bye Basie". After ten years with Basie, Tate led his own band for a twenty-year stint at Harlem's Celebrity Club, toured Europe, made club appearances and numerous recordings. Remixed from the original analog tapes this is the first issue on CD of this album.

Jazz pianist Don Pullen was taken away from us way too soon. He passed at age 53 in 1995. He could play anything from blues to straight ahead to the outer regions of avant garde jazz. This is a re-issue of his 1975 Sackville album originally titled Solo Piano Album. The new title track is a dedication to Muhal Richard Abrams who made his recorded debut on Delmark. "Suite (Sweet) Malcolm (Part 1: Memories and Gunshots)" is for Malcolm X. "Big Alice" is a tour de force embedded with all of Pullen's gospel and soul roots. "Song Played backwards" is a song Pullen decided to play in reverse of the note sequence he had composed! Pullen's music is fierce and joyous and alive, and his presence abides in every note here.

Marty Grosz and Mike Peters recorded these duets informally over a seven year period. It is rare to hear Jazz guitarists performing duets on acoustic instruments and this collaboration is a tribute to Eddie Lang, Carl Kress and Dick McDonough. Such classics as Chicken a La Swing, Eddie's Twister, Danzon and Minuet in Miniature are given sensitive interpretations while the duo improvise on jazz material such as Jubilee, I've Found a New Baby, the Mooche and If Dreams Come True. 20 tracks total.

Formed in Seattle, in 1985, The Evergreen Classic Jazz Band plays lesser-known music of the '20s and '30s. For this album the band goes back even further in the teens, songs just about 100 years old. The ECJB has captured the style and essence of original performances, without rote replication. Reinterpretation of material originally done by larger groups is not easy, but the ECJB gets a big sound through fresh, distinctive voicings from the front line threesome, and tight, clear execution from the rhythm section. Leader Tom Jacobus plays some fine tuba and provides most of the musical arrangements.

In the spring of 1965 pianist Don Ewell began his four-week engagement in Toronto that lasted seven months. David Gillman, a jazz fan and one-time promoter, started hanging at the Golden Nugget and was reminded of another stride legend Willie "The Lion" Smith who he had presented in the '40s. Fast forward to '66, Gillman brings Ewell and Smith together for a Canadian TV filming. While in town the two jam together often at the Nugget and informal, live recordings are made (issued as Stride Piano Duets, DMK 249). The following year the two are brought together into a recording studio and this album is the astonishing result.

A Christmas album for all seasons! Ralph Sutton is one of the greatest stride and classic jazz pianists of all time. Milt Hinton became famous for "slapping" the bass and being the most recorded jazz musician appearing on well over 1,000 sessions. Gus Johnson also appeared on many sessions playing drums behind Coleman Hawkins, Count Basie, Jay McShann, Ralph Sutton and many more. Born in Scotland in 1936 soprano saxophonist Jim Galloway is the youngest of the band (by fourteen years!) and has been active on the Canadian jazz scene since the mid '60s. This 1986 recording is one of the best-selling and most popular jazz Christmas albums. And for good reason: these musicians are truly all stars!

Second release from all-stars gives nod to jazz great Ralph Sutton.

A solo concert from December 2007 at the Old Mill Inn in Toronto by virtuoso pianist Dick Hyman. Hyman has played with legends Benny Goodman, Charlie Parker and Red Norvo, he has scored Woody Allen films and made in depth tributes to Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke and Duke Ellington. 12 tracks: Ain't Misbehavin', I Can't Get Started, Stompin' at the Savoy, Have a Heart, Honeysuckle Rose, All the Things You Are, Undecided, Blackbird, Christopher Columbus, Ocean Languor, Pass It Along, the Man I Love.

An electrifying, solo laden big band, recorded liv at the Montreal Jazz Club, Toronto, April 1992.

Born in Defiance, OH in 1906 Wild Bill Davison is one of jazz's most colorful cornet players of all time. Davison is best known for his association with Eddie Condon lasting from the mid - '40s into the 1960s. Recorded in 1968 this session was the result of a live engagement at Toronto's Colonial Tavern. The players were put together to play one gig billed as The Jazz Giants. The response was so tumultuous that return engagements were booked and arrangements were made for this recording. With Benny Morton, Herb Hall, Claude Hopkins, Arvell Shaw, Buzzy Drootin. Contains a previously unissued piano feature on "Three Little Words" and an alternate take of "Black And Blue."

Don Menza is a powerful tenor saxophonist, with a dynamic and distinctive sound and style. Born in Buffalo, NY in 1936, Menza was with Maynard Ferguson's Orchestra (1960-1962) as both a soloist and an arranger. A short tenure with Stan Kenton preceded joining Buddy Rich's 1968 big band in the "jazz tenor" chair, recording the famous solo cadenza on "Channel 1 Suite" (Recorded "live" at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas) that utilized circular breathing and has become known as a classic. He settled in California and has worked with Elvin Jones, Louie Bellson and as a long time member of The Tonight Show Band, with Johnny Carson.

New York's Kelly's Stables on 52nd Street was a hotbed of innovative musical ideas in the early 1940s. The Coleman Hawkins Band was extending the harmonic boundaries of the music in association with younger musicians laying the seeds of the bebop revolution. Dan Block (a NY tenor saxophonist and clarinetist) and guitarist Chris Flory spent 5 years researching the period in an attempt to find the connection points and transition from Swing to Bop. This recording, Almost Modern, is the musical result of their work, including tunes by Dexter Gordon, Coleman Hawkins, Don Byas, Illinois Jacquet, Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Fuller, Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk and Sir Charles Thompson.

Debut performance of the trio recorded at Toronto's Old Mill Restaurant February, 2007. Gene DiNovi-Piano, Andrew Scott-Guitar and Dave Young-Bass.

This album was recorded in Toronto following a concert performance for the Classic Jazz Society. It showcases the brilliant piano work of David Boeddinghaus, along time resident of New Orleans, who works primarily as music director for Banu Gibson's Hot Jazz. His mastery of the classic piano styles (Morton, Waller and Wilson) are clearly evident here. Underpinning every selection is the classic New Orleans snare/bass drum centered percussion of Trevor Richards. Since studying with Zutty Singleton in the 1960s Trevor has led bands in New Orleans and other parts of the world. He often tours in Germany with trios stylistically similar to the music heard on this recording.

New Orleans, and it's music, has been in everyone's thoughts following the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina. This recording salutes the city and it's musical heritage with a program put together over 4 nights of performance at Toronto's Montreal Bistro. John Sheridan's elegant piano stylings laid down a harmonic carpet for the burnished brilliance of Barnard's cornet - deeply etched within the "hot" traditions of New Orleans. Everything is held together by the rhythmic sparkle of Don Vickery's drums. The program contains echoes of many facets of the city's musical traditions: The marching bands, the joyful exuberance of the city's good times as well as songs reflective of the city's more somber moments.

Andrew Scott's latest project for Sackville takes a fresh look at some of the classic bebop tunes of the 40s based upon the harmonies of popular songs. The quartet of Andrew Scott - guitar, Mark Eisenman - piano, Pat Collins - bass and Joel Haynes - drums are joined by Jon Erik-Kellso on trumpet and Don Block on tenor saxophone and clarinet. Tracks: Did You Call Her Today, Hot House, on a Misty Night, Vicky's Dream, Nostalgia, Junior's Soul, Quasimodo, Contrafact, Salute to the Bandbox. Recorded on June 5, 2008 at the Estonian Hall in Toronto.

This 10 track CD reissues recordings of solo piano performances made in the 1980s at Toronto's Cafe des Copains (Apr. 25th, 1984 and Jan. 9th, 1985), showcasing Harold Mabern's powerful style. Two selections, "Indian Summer" and "Manhattan," are issued here for the first time.

Rossano Sportiello command of the jazz language is complete, whether it's within the stride tradition or through the fluid harmonic concepts of beboppers and Bill Evans. Among those enthusiastic about his talents are Dan Barrett and Barry Harris. In the Dark was issued originally on Blue Swing Records in a limited edition with sales made at Rossano's performances. HIs musical profile continues to grow with appearances at major jazz events in Europe and the U.S.. His appearance at Blackpool's Swinging Jazz Party called upon him to match wits with both Dick Hymas and Houston Person.

One of jazz music's great comedians, Marty Grosz is a brilliant acoustic guitarist whose chordal solos bring back the sound of Carl Kress and Dick McDonough of the 1930s, while his vocals are very much in the Fats Waller tradition. The material on this 15 track CD was recorded in Germany on Nov. 19th, 2001 (one track was recorded Dec. 13th, 2000). Marty is joined by trumpeter Randy Reinhart, clarinet/saxophonist Frank Roberscheuten, bassist Nico Gastreich and drummer Moritz Gastreich.