Browse: Jazz (series)
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My Favorite Things
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John Coltrane (soprano saxophone), Steve Davis (double bass), McCoy Tyner (piano), Elvin Jones (drums), John Coltrane (tenor saxophone)
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The New Yorker, Top 100 Jazz Albums
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Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Top 100 (Pre-1980)
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The Shape Of Jazz To Come
RecommendedOrnette Coleman (alto saxophone), Don Cherry (cornet), Charlie Haden (double bass), Billy Higgins (drums)
What this album did in fact contain and represent was a completely different and fresh set of musical signposts within the jazz vernacular, both in terms of the stunningly bright melodic patterns... — More…
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Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the World
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Penguin Guide to Jazz, Crowned
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Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Top 100 (Pre-1980)
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1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, Jazz Recommendation
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1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, Jazz Recommendation
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It’s pretty difficult to overestimate the influence this single album – or even more narrowly, its title track – has had on the development of jazz since its release: certainly the saxophone-bearing... — More…
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Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the World
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Penguin Guide to Jazz, Core Collection
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Presto Music, Classic Jazz Recording
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Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Top 100 (Pre-1980)
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1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, Jazz Recommendation
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Penguin Guide to Jazz, Core Collection
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Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Top 100 (Pre-1980)
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1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, Jazz Recommendation
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Indo Jazz Suite
The Joe Harriott-John Mayer Double Quintet, Diwan Motihar (sitar), Joe Harriott (alto saxophone), John Mayer (harpsichord), Keshav Sathe (tabla), Coleridge Goode (bass), Pat Smythe (piano), Alan Ganley (drums), Chandrahas Paigankar (tanbur), Chris Taylor (flute), Kenny Wheeler (trumpet), John Mayer...
Hailed by Melody Maker upon release as “highly provocative” it was conceived by Calcutta-born Mayer who based the pieces on the ascending and descending order of ragas with Harriott’s quintet... — More…
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Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the World
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1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, Jazz Recommendation
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Lennie Tristano / The New Tristano
RecommendedRachel Gutek (graphicdesigner), Loring Eutemey (graphicdesigner), Geoff Gans (art director), Lee Friedlander (front cover photographer), Jeff Morton (drums), Lennie Tristano (piano), Lee Konitz (alto saxophone), Art Taylor (drums)
...Tristano’s own audience remained tiny, this Atlantic album containing his moving elegy to Charlie Parker, ‘Requiem’, and his controversial multi-tracking of his own piano lines, ‘Line Up’,... — More…
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Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the World
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Penguin Guide to Jazz, Core Collection
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1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, Jazz Recommendation
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New Orleans Suite
RecommendedDuke Ellington (piano), Norris Turney (clarinet), Norris Turney (flute), Money Johnson (trumpet), Money Johnson (flugelhorn), Mercer Ellington (flugelhorn), Mercer Ellington (trumpet), Norris Turney (alto saxophone), Paul Gonsalves (tenor saxophone), Russell Procope (alto saxophone), Wild Bill Davis...
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Grammy Awards, 15th Awards (1972), Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band
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Penguin Guide to Jazz, Core Collection
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The overall marvel of this record is that, while it proved to be so pregnant with ideas for those who followed in the next decades, the music grips the listener as excitingly as ever today. — More…
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Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the World
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Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Top 100 (Pre-1980)
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Volunteered Slavery
RecommendedRahsaan Roland Kirk (clarinet), Ron Burton (piano), Robert Shy (drums), Rahsaan Roland Kirk (flute), Joe "Habao" Texidor (percussion), Rahsaan Roland Kirk (tenor saxophone), Rahsaan Roland Kirk (horn), Jimmy Hopps (drums), Harold White (drums)
It’s Kirk’s first major attempt to fuse jazz, gospel, soul and pop, with an over-arching message of peace and unity holding it together. The short track Search for the Reason Why gets to the... — More…
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Presto Music, Classic Jazz Recording
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1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, Jazz Recommendation
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Blues & Roots
Charles Mingus, Pepper Adams (additional saxophone), Willie Dennis (trombone), John Handy (alto saxophone), Jimmy Knepper (trombone), Booker Ervin (tenor saxophone), Dannie Richmond (drums), Horace Parlan (piano), Jackie McLean (alto saxophone), Mal Waldron (piano)
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Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Top 100 (Pre-1980)
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1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, Jazz Recommendation
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