Latest News: Jazz, Classic Recordings
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Classic Recordings,
Charlie Parker - Early Recordings 7th June 2019
Charlie Parker's game changing sessions heralded the arrival of bebop and remained unsurpassed to this day... in Matt's opinion anyway. Read the full article to find out why.
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Classic Recordings,
Stan Getz - Focus 31st May 2019
Stan Getz's Focus gets a reappraisal, that rare thing, a jazz with strings album that challenges, thanks to Eddie Sauter's sophisticated arrangements.
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Classic Recordings,
Thelonious Monk Trio 23rd May 2019
Thelonious Monk roughed up some of his best known tunes on these exciting and spiky trio sessions, recorded during a troubled period in the pianists life, just before he would break through with some of his definitive albums.
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Classic Recordings,
Miles Davis - Milestones 8th May 2019
One of the pinnacles of hard-bop, Milestones showcases some of the finest musicians at work in the fifties - John Coltrane, Julian `Cannonball' Adderley, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Jo Jones, as well as Miles Davis's first steps into modal jazz.
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Classic Recordings,
Sonny Rollins - The Bridge 25th April 2019
In 1959 Sonny Rollins decided he needed a break in order to grow as a musician and left the New York music scene. After two years of practising every day on the Williamsburg Bridge, accompanied only by the cry of seagulls and trains rolling by, he returned with this terrific album.
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Classic Recordings,
Dave Holland - Conference of the Birds 18th April 2019
A conference of the finest players on the free music scene in the early seventies, Matt argues that Dave Holland's Conference of the Birds is one of the great seventies jazz albums.
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Classic Recordings,
Ellington at Newport 1956 3rd April 2019
Let us journey back to the Newport Jazz Festival in 1956, to witness a demoralised Ellington Band find its mojo in realtime, thanks to a storming Paul Gonsalves solo that runs for 27 choruses, and caused a mini-riot.
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Classic Recordings,
Desmond & Mulligan - Two of a Mind 28th March 2019
Matt winds down to urbane warriors Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan's Two of a Mind.
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Classic Recordings,
Out to Lunch 20th March 2019
Matt revisits one of the true landmarks of modern jazz, Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch.
