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| 1. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Louis Armstrong & His All Stars:Ain't Misbehavin'
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| 2. | Count Basie & His Orchestra: One O'Clock Jump
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| 3. | Benny Goodman: Sing Sing Sing (With A Swing)
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| 4. | Duke Ellington: Take The 'A' Train
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| 5. | Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra: A Night In Tunisia
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| 6. | Charlie Parker Quartet: Confirmation
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| 7. | Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet: Joy Spring
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| 8. | Sonny Rollins: St. Thomas
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| 9. | Thelonious Monk: Epistrophy
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| 10. | Chet Baker: Time After Time
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| 11. | Miles Davis: Oleo
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| 12. | Charles Mingus: Reincarnation Of A Lovebird
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| 13. | John Coltrane: Naima
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| 14. | Bill Evans: Waltz For Debby
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| 2. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Kenny G: Songbird
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| 2. | Jamie Cullum: In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
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| 3. | Ronny Jordan: After Hours (The Antidote)
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| 4. | Tom Browne: Too Hot
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| 5. | Kymaera: Breezin'
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| 6. | Larry Carlton: Sleepwalk
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| 7. | The Brecon Brothers: Cantaloupe Island
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| 8. | David Sanborn: Sugar
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| 9. | 2Play: Morning Dance
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| 10. | Lenny White: Walk On By
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| 11. | Jazz Urbaine: Street Life
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| 12. | Michael 'Patches' Stewart: Fields Of Gold
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| 13. | 2Play: Just The Two Of Us
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| 14. | Kymaera: Lowdown
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| 3. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto: Falsa Bahiana
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| 2. | Mongo Santamaria: Brazilian Sunset
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| 3. | Paul Desmond: Samba De Orpheu
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| 4. | Danza Latina: Oye Como Va
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| 5. | Kenny Barron: Maria Isabel
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| 6. | Charlie Palmieri: Softly As In A Morning Sunrise
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| 7. | Grupo Cabana: Desafinado
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| 8. | Jim Tomlinson: So Danco Samba
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| 9. | The Brecon Brothers: Grazin' In The Grass
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| 10. | Alex Wilson: Nature Boy
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| 11. | Willie Bobo: Roots
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| 12. | Luis Bonilla: Caravan
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| 13. | Danza Latina: Soul Sauce
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Jazz / Latin Jazz; Smooth Jazz
3CDs of some of the greatest artists playing some of their greatest performances. Whether Classic, Smooth or Latin there’s a little bit of Jazz in all of us.
CD1: Classic Jazz
CD2: Smooth Jazz
CD3: Latin Jazz
CD1: Classic Jazz
To some extent, Classic Jazz is in the ear of the beholder. One man's cacophony is another's transcendent experience. However, for our purposes, we have taken 'classic' to mean some of the most famous tunes made by the most famous musicians that emerged in jazz from the 1920s through to the 1960s. Sometimes, discussion of jazz history reduces the music to a series of styles, but that seems inadequate as, whatever the style of jazz here, it is all infused with enormous personality, heart and the spirit of improvisation which is the very essence of jazz. Classic indeed.
1. Louis Armstrong & His All Stars - Ain't Misbehavin'
Louis Armstrong was the first great jazz virtuoso. His trumpet playing on his 1920s Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings set the benchmark for instrumental brilliance and excitement. By the mid 1950s, he was a beloved entertainer who still had some vital music to make, like this effervescent version of the cheeky Fats Waller classic.
2. Count Basie & His Orchestra - One O'Clock Jump
'Discovered' in 1935 by remarkable talent scout John Hammond who also discovered Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen), the Kansas City big band led by Bill 'Count' Basie could swing the blues like no other. Here is a timeless example recorded in 1937 featuring the wily piano of the leader and the great tenor saxophonists Herschel Evans (heard earlier in the performance) and Lester Young (heard later).
3. Benny Goodman - Sing Sing Sing (With A Swing)
In the late 1930s, the pop stars of the day were the big bands and the Benny Goodman band were the biggest stars of all. The bespectacled Goodman was labelled the 'King of Swing' and his band was full of attention-grabbing musicians. This thrilling minor-key romp featuring the 'jungle drums' of Gene Krupa made a star of the extrovert percussionist.
4. Duke Ellington - Take The 'A' Train
Though Duke Ellington was the most tenacious of bandleaders, a tireless ambassador for jazz and indisputably one of the great composers of the 20th Century, his famous theme tune wasn't one of his compositions. "Take The A Train" was written by his long-time musical companion and collaborator Billy Strayhorn, a man of whom Duke once said "Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine."
5. Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra - A Night In Tunisia
The clown prince of the modern jazz movement to emerge in the mid 1940s called 'bebop' or 'bop', Dizzy Gillespie had an amiable on-stage demeanour that barely disguised his musical rigour and intensity. His most famous composition – one of the first examples of Cuban rhythms combining with jazz – has appeared in many guises down the years. This features Dizzy's blistering trumpet along with tenorist Don Byas and vibesman Milt Jackson.
6. Charlie Parker Quartet – Confirmation
Gillespie's erstwhile genius partner in bop was the remarkable alto saxophonist Charlie Parker. Though he was dead by 1955 aged 34 after a lifetime of excess, Bird's glittering music remains the bedrock of the language of modern jazz. This performance recorded in 1953 is typical of his quicksilver style.
7. Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet - Joy Spring
The Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet featured the lyrical, fiery trumpet of Brown – one of the great melodic improvisers in jazz - and the innovative polyrhythmic drumming of Roach, here heard on a full chorus of brushes. Brown was killed, along with pianist Richie Powell, in a car crash in 1956. Roach, on the other hand, survived to become one of the most respected elder statesmen of jazz percussion.
8. Sonny Rollins - St. Thomas
Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins played on some terrific sides with the Brown/Roach Quintet but sealed his reputation as a jazz giant with a superb series of albums as leader in the 1950s. This infectious calypso opened his astonishing album Saxophone Colossus in 1956. Fifty years later, Sonny could still be heard giving his most famous tune a thorough seeing-to in concert halls around the world.
9. Thelonious Monk - Epistrophy
Pianist Monk was one of the architects of bebop and one of jazz's great individualists. Angular and unpredictable, his music has been described as difficult, but there's a logic and beauty to Monk's oeuvre that, once it hits you, stays with you forever. Here is a typically spiky quartet performance of his theme tune "Epistrophy" from 1963 featuring tenor man Charlie Rouse.
10. Chet Baker - Time After Time
A serenely sensitive trumpet tone, a smooth singing voice and film star looks all helped Chet Baker become a star at the height of the West Coast Jazz boom in the 1950s. Heroin-related prison spells relegated his career to a pan-continent scuffle until his mysterious death in 1988. But Chet's tale of woe shouldn't distract from the romantic beauty of his music, as evident on this touching ballad.
11. Miles Davis - Oleo
One of the music's great facilitators whose various groups and recording from the 1940s to the 1980s influenced the very direction of jazz on at least four separate occasions, Miles Davis is a jazz legend. This incisive recording of "Oleo", Sonny Rollins's elliptical variation on the chord changes of Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm", is by what became known as the trumpeter's "First Great Quintet", comprising John Coltrane (tenor), Red Garland (piano), Paul Chambers (bass) and Philly Joe Jones (drums).
12. Charles Mingus - Reincarnation Of A Lovebird
A distinctive and passionate composer, bassist Charles Mingus was an expansive character who made some of the most substantial and rewarding works in all of jazz. Essentially in thrall to the orchestra and compositional genius of Ellington, Mingus brought his own modernistic fire to the jazz tone poem, as here on a 1960 recording of his Charlie Parker tribute.
13. John Coltrane - Naima
A much-imitated saxophonist who pioneered the so-called 'sheets of sound' effect in the 1950s before embarking on a spiritual quest with his music in the 1960s, John Coltrane is a jazz icon and innovator. 'Naima' is a peaceful ballad dedicated to his first wife and is featured here in a live quartet performance from the 1960s with McCoy Tyner on piano.
14. Bill Evans - Waltz For Debby
As influential on pianists as Coltrane was on saxophonists, Bill Evans had a distinctive touch and rich harmonic sense that beguiles as much today as it did when first heard in the late 1950s. Here is an intense live performance featuring his 1972 trio (Eddie Gomez – bass, Marty Morell – drums) of his most famous composition, a jazz waltz dedicated to his niece.
CD2: Smooth Jazz
The blending of rhythm and blues, pop/rock and jazz has produced many a groove-based, audience-friendly sub-genre over the years; soul-jazz, crossover, jazz-rock, fusion, contemporary, to name a few. At the gentler end of the scale is Smooth Jazz, a stylish, immensely popular synthesis of funky grooves, jazz instrumentation and pop melody.
1. Kenny G - Songbird
Saxophonist Kenny G combines a sweet, smooth tone with accessible melodies and a contemporary production and is one of the biggest-selling instrumentalists of all-time. "Songbird" was a huge hit for him in the mid '80s.
2. Jamie Cullum - In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
UK pianist/singer can deliver a grainy croon when required, as here on his effective reworking of the Sinatra classic, arranged by Cullum himself with Julian Jackson.
3. Ronny Jordan - After Hours (The Antidote)
It was Ronny Jordan's funky version of Miles Davis's "So What" that was the UK-born guitarist's breakthrough hit, though this slinky Jordan original from the same 1992 album The Antidote has been no less ubiquitous over the past 15 years.
4. Tom Browne - Too Hot
A commercial pilot by trade, Tom Browne is also a credible trumpeter whose signature is to layer intricate but coolly executed hard bop horn over funky beats, often decorated with intermittent female vocal. "Too Hot" is a archetypal Browne track taken from his 1994 album Mo Jamaican Funk.
5. Kymaera - Breezin'
"Breezin'" was made famous by George Benson, the man who virtually invented smooth jazz guitar. Here we feature a classy reworking by UK contemporary jazz outfit Kymaera.
6. Larry Carlton - Sleepwalk
The simple yet highly attractive "Sleepwalk" has been a favourite tune for guitarists (including Jeff Beck, Chet Atkins and The Shadows) since 1959. Larry Carlton's distinctively tender version appeared as the title track of his 1981 hit album.
7. The Brecon Brothers - Cantaloupe Island
Originally a throwaway funky tune in the middle of a superb 1965 Herbie Hancock album Empyrean Isles, "Cantaloupe Island" has been through various incarnations since then, including a hit hip-hop version by Us3. This is a stealthy reading by UK acid-jazzers The Brecon Brothers.
8. David Sanborn - Sugar
Of all the saxophone sounds of the last 30 years it is perhaps the bright bluesy attack of David Sanborn that is most characteristic of the contemporary style. Here he takes veteran soul-jazz saxist Stanley Turrentine's classic 1970 shuffle and transforms it into a half-time funk vehicle to marvellous effect.
9. 2Play - Morning Dance
The Caribbean-influenced summer jazz sounds of Spyra Gyra's 1979 hit "Morning Dance" never fails to get faces smiling and toes tapping. Fun, frothy and irresistible, it's nimbly interpreted here by saxophonist Charles Chan and 2Play.
10. Lenny White - Walk On By
Drummer White played with Miles Davis on the groundbreaking Bitches Brew and with Chick Corea in Return To Forever but much of his solo output has favoured jazz-funk, of which this taut reading of the Burt Bacharach classic is a good example.
11. Jazz Urbaine - Street Life
The Jazz Crusaders had been in existence for 19 years when they finally struck gold in 1979 in the company of singer Randy Crawford with this unforgettable crossover hit. "Street Life" was always a substantial enough piece to attract jazz instrumental versions like this reading by Jazz Urbaine.
12. Michael 'Patches' Stewart - Fields Of Gold
A beautiful song by Sting who often discreetly dresses his literate pop with pastel jazz colours. Trumpeter Stewart need do little more than play the lovely, tranquil melody here to create magic, though his thoughtful improvisation is a bonus.
13. 2Play - Just The Two Of Us
The original version of this Bill Withers tune featured the composer/singer along with some tough-tender contributions from saxophonist Grover Washington. Here 2Play's instrumental version takes up where Grover left off.
14. Kymaera - Lowdown
Written by Boz Scaggs and David Paich (son of jazz arranger Marty Paich and founder member of Toto), this exercise in groovy minimalism originally featured on the 1976 Boz Scaggs album Silk Degrees.
CD3: Latin Jazz
Latin Jazz is handy shorthand for a myriad of fusions (Afro-Cuban jazz, Cubop, Brazilian jazz, Salsa, bossa nova) where Latin, often Cuban rhythms meet jazz improvisation. As popular now as in the 1940s when it emerged, it attracts dancers and listeners alike.
1. Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto - Falsa Bahiana
Getz's early 1960s output, including 1963's best-selling Getz-Gilberto was largely responsible for ushering the bossa nova boom. In 1976, he was reunited with guitarist/singer Joao Gilberto for the album Best Of Two Worlds, from which this charming performance comes.
2. Mongo Santamaria - Brazilian Sunset
Cuban percussionist Santamaria has enjoyed much crossover success since his 1963 hit with Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man" and his bands have often been at the centre of significant musical fusions including Afro-Cuban and Latin Soul.
3. Paul Desmond - Samba De Orpheu
Dave Brubeck's alto saxophonist Paul Desmond agreed with his employer not to use pianists for his solo recordings, which resulted in a string of excellent albums with guitarist Jim Hall in the mid 1960s. This gorgeous reading of Luis Bonfa's "Samba De Orpheu" comes from Desmond's 1963 classic album Take Ten.
4. Danza Latina - Oye Como Va
A much-covered Latin standard composed by veteran timbales legend Tito Puente, the King Of The Mambo, "Oye Coma Va"'s most well-known manifestation is probably the 1970 version by jazz rock guitarist Carlos Santana. UK-based recording artist Fayyaz Virji uses that as reference for his own interpretation.
5. Kenny Barron - Maria Isabel
A sumptuous piano trio version of an obscure but comely bossa nova from master player Kenny Barron, a pianist who first came to prominence with Dizzy Gillespie in the 1960s and later recorded some key albums with Stan Getz. Here he is in the company of Ray Drummond (bass) and Ben Riley (drums).
6. Charlie Palmieri - Softly As In A Morning Sunrise
The elder brother of Eddie, also a Latin pianist, Charlie Palmieri had a playing career that stretched from the '40s to the '80s, taking in all kinds of Latin styles with the likes of Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaria and his own group Charanga Duboney.
7. Grupo Cabana - Desafinado
In the hands of Stan Getz and guitarist Charlie Byrd who made the charts with it in 1962, "Desafinado" was among the first of dozens of Antonio Carlos Jobim's bossa nova melodies that bewitched the world in the 1960s. Grupo Cabana's version here gives especially good value to Jobim's serpentine melody.
8. Jim Tomlinson - So Danco Samba
The saxophone-playing husband of singer Stacey Kent, Jim Tomlinson makes no secret of his admiration for the work of Stan Getz, something made explicit on his lovely 2001 bossa nova album Brazilian Sketches. From it is taken this tasteful interpretation of a classic Jobim tune.
9. The Brecon Brothers - Grazin' In The Grass
Introduced to the world in 1968 by South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela, the joyous "Grazing In The Grass" has been covered by The Friends of Distinction (who had a vocal hit with it in 1969), contemporary saxophonist Boney James and here, UK acid-jazzers The Brecon Brothers.
10. Alex Wilson - Nature Boy
Alex Wilson is a UK-based pianist-composer specialising in Latin jazz. This ingenious reworking of the Eden Ahbez song which was a 1949 hit for Nat 'King' Cole is from his 2001 debut album Afro Saxon.
11. Willie Bobo - Roots
A well-regarded percussionist whose credits range from Miles Davis to Tito Puente, Willie Bobo graced many a jazz and Latin record from the 1950s through the '60s and '70s. He had his own contract with Verve records from where this crisp 1967 cut originates.
12. Luis Bonilla - Caravan
One of the earliest genuine Latin jazz hits, "Caravan" was composed by Puerto Rican trombonist Juan Tizol and recorded in 1937 by Duke Ellington. It remains a favourite workout for Latin jazz groups to this day as the trombone-led Luis Bonilla's Latin Jazz All Stars version attests.
13. Danza Latina - Soul Sauce
An infectious two-chord vamp credited to Dizzy Gillespie and his erstwhile percussionist Chano Pozo. The touchstone for Fayyaz Virji's version of "Soul Sauce" (also known as "Guachi Guaro") is the popular 1964 recording by vibraphonist Cal Tjader.
---Compilation and notes by Chris Ingham
Trained, absurdly, as a drama teacher, Chris Ingham currently divides his time between playing jazz piano, music journalism and writing pop songs, to the faint alarm of his family. |
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