Monk, Thelonious

Chick Corea & Gary Burton: Jazz, Live at The Munich Philharmonie [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Arthaus DVD / 2012-03-27

Works: Chick Corea: Love Castle; Native Sense; Duende; No Mystery; Postscript; Tango '92; Rhumbata; Bud Powell; La Fiesta; Béla Bartók: Bagatelles (14) for Piano, Op. 6/Sz 38; Thelonious Monk:...
Performers: Burton, Gary; Corea, Chick

LIVE RECORDING FROM THE MUNICH PHILHARMONIE, 1997=Pianist Chick Corea and vibraphonist Gary Burton are both numbered among the jazz greats of our day, both winning...continue...
Run Time: 94 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1
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Music Painters [5 CDs]

7 CD / Naïve / 2012-01-31

Works: Maurice Ravel: Une barque sur l'océan, for orchestra; Rêves, song for voice & piano; Daphnis et Chloé Suite no 1; Deux mélodies hébraïques (Two Hebraic Melodies); Conc...
Performers: Armstrong, Louis; Ashkenazy, Vovka; Barreaux, Gerard; Berezovsky, Boris [Piano]; Blumenthal, Daniel; Bon, Maarten; Bostridge, Ian; Bruns, Peter; Cabasso, Laurent; Casals, Pablo; Cassard, Philippe; Ch...
Conductors: Krivine, Emmanuel; Robertson, David; Equilbey, Laurence; ; Grindenko, Anatoly; Yablonsky, Dmitry; Mihaylov, Zdravko; Von der Goltz, Gottfried; Spering, Christoph; Jean, Kenneth; Halász, Michael;...
Ensemble: ; Dizzy Gillespie All-Stars; Duo Campion-Vachon; Ensemble Kasbek; Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five; Rare Fruits Council; Tempo Jazz Men; Végh Quartet

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Piano Concerto

2 CD / Warner Classics / 2011-09-27

Works: George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Concerto for Piano in F major; A Foggy Day (in London Town), song (from A Damsel in Distress, film); Fidgety Feet, song (from Oh, Kay!, musical); But Not for Me, so...
Performers: MacGregor, Joanna [Piano]
Conductors: Davis, Carl

Joanna Macgregor returns with yet another incredible album: a collection of Gershwin, including Rhapsody in Blue, Piano Concerto in F, The Gershwin Songbook and Broadway...continue...

Three Stories / Solo Piano

1 CD / Sony Classical / 2011-04-05

Works: Sammy Cahn: I Should Care; Johann Sebastian Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869; Orchestral Suite no 3, BWV 1068; James Van Heusen: Darn that dream; Chick Corea: Windows; Alexander Scria...
Performers: Djangirov, Eldar; Eldar

Personnel: Eldar (piano); Eldar Djangirov (piano).

Recording information: MSR Studios, New York, NY (05/12/2009-05/13/2009); Tainted Blue Studios, New York, NY (05/12/2009-05/13/2009); The Gran...continue...

Andy Miles, clarinet: Crossing Borders

1 CD / Telos / 2011-03-29

Works: Thelonious Monk: Round Midnight, song; Astor Piazzolla: María de Buenos Aires; Enrico IV; L'histoire du tango; Rolf Kühn: String Connection with Clarinet, for clarinet, string quartet & d...
Performers: Arndt, Andreas; Fuhr, Dietmar [Bass]; Miles, Andy; Nuss, Hubert; Sahinoglu, Selcuk

Recording information: TV studio Türkshow in Cologne (02/24/2008)....continue...

Roots - My Life, My Song

2 CD / Sony Classical / 2010-06-15

Works: Traditional: African Drum Invocation; His eye is on the sparrow, song; Pretty Horses, song; God's Gonna Cut You Down, song; Anonymous: I Want Two Wings; Traditional Spiritual: I Couldn't Hear Nobody ...
Performers: Coleman, Ira; Johns, Steve [Drummer]; Lovatt, Mike; Markham, Mark; Martin Williams [Sax/Clarinet]; Norman, Jessye

Recording information: Philharmonie Berlin.

A sticker included on at least some versions of this Sony Classical release promises "music from Berlioz to Ellington," which would make it a pretty ...continue...

Irresistible Karita Mattila

1 CD / Ondine / 2010-04-27

Works: Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Antonin Dvorák: Rusalka; Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; Jean Sibelius: Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte (The Maid Return...
Performers: Band, Fever; Eskola, Jukka; Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Herrala, Ville; How Many Sisters; Kallio, Mika; Lassy, Timo; Lerche, Peter; Lintinen, Kirmo; Mattila, Karita [Soprano Vocals]; Mustonen, ...
Conductors: Saraste, Jukka-Pekka; Niemi, Riku; Savijoki, Pekka; Lintinen, Kirmo
Ensemble: ; Fever (Ensemble)

Celebrated soprano Karita Mattila has proved herself to be irresistible in any musical genre. This compilation couples live performances of some of the world's best-loved...continue...
Recording information: Tampere Hall, Finland (08/2007)....continue...

American Complex / Jim Gailloreto's Jazz String Quintet

1 CD / Origin Classical / 2009-09-22

Works: Jerome Kern: All the Things You Are; Thelonious Monk: Well, You Needn't; Fats Waller: Honeysuckle Rose; Patricia Barber: Spring Song; Wind Song; Jim Gailloreto: American Complex; Bad Clowns; Cootie W...
Performers: Barber, Patricia; Gailloreto, Jim; John McLean; McLean, John [Guitar]
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Ensemble: Jim Gailloreto's Jazz String Quintet

The Miracle of the Voice - Natalie Dessay

2 CD / Virgin Classics / 2007-01-16

Works: Léo Delibes: Lakmé; Jacques Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne; Gaîté Parisienne; Robinson Crusoé; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le pardon de Ploërmel "Dinorah"; Jules Mass...
Performers: Bonaccorso, Rosario; Cassar, Yvan; Cavallier, Nicolas; Ceccarelli, Andre; Dessay, Natalie; Naouri, Laurent; Nougaro, Claude; Tezier, Ludovic
Conductors: Plasson, Michel; Fournillier, Patrick; Minkowski, Marc; Langrée, Louis; Guschlbauer, Theodor; Haïm, Emmanuelle; Pappano, Antonio; Schoenwandt, Michael; Conlon, James; Rombi, Philippe; Davis...

From Baroque music to Stravinsky, this 2-CD compilation offers a comprehensive sample of Natalie Dessay's musicianship....continue...

Libera - Angel Voices

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2006-10-31

Works: Tagatsugu Muramtsu: Far Away; Robert Prizeman: Locus iste; Ave Maria; Going Home; Salva me; Libera; Always With You; We are the lost; I am the day; Recordare; Jean Sibelius: Be still my soul; Gustav ...
Performers: Anderson, John [Classical]; Dodd, Chris; Geraghty, Steven; Pears, Fiona; Prizeman, Robert; Tilley, Ian
Conductors: Prizeman, Robert
Ensemble: Libera

Libera's 'Angel Voices' collection includes the best of past tracks combined with some new tracks-the deeply moving "Going Home," employing the melody of Dvorak's Largo...continue...

O Western Wind / Western Wind Vocal Ensemble

1 CD / Western Wind / 2006-04-01

Works: Robert Dennis: O Western Wind; Anonymous, English: Sumer is icumen in; Anonymous: Flos Regalis, for 4 voices; Irme quiero; Ay luna que reluces, villancico; Miraculous Love's Wounding; I Believe This ...
Performers: Arnold, Johanna; Bennett, Lawrence; Clark, Phyllis Elaine; Guth, John; Herreid, Grant; Lee, William Lyon; Levine, Elliot Z.; Maloney, Robert; Rowe, Cheryl Bensman; Western Wind; Zukof, William
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Ensemble: Western Wind

Personnel: Phyllis Elaine Clark (soprano); Lawrence Bennet, William Lyon Lee (tenor); William Zukof (countertenor); Elliot Levine (baritone); John Guth (guitar).

Recording information: Kampo Cu...continue...

Lush Life / Karl-Heinz Steffens, David Gazarov

1 CD / Tudor / 2006-01-24

Works: Duke Ellington: I'm beginning to see the light; Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life, song; George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess; Antonio Carlos Jobim: Corcovado, song; Wave, song; Sonny Rollins: Oleo; Victor Young...
Performers: Gazarov, David; Steffens, Karl-Heinz

Amanda Pepping - Albeniz, Granados, Lecuona, etc

1 CD / Summit Records / 2005-09-13

Works: Isaac Albéniz: Suite española no 1, for piano, Op. 47, B. 7; España, 6 Feuilles d'album, Op. 165; Ernesto Lecuona: Andalucía, suite for piano (Suite Española); Cyril Scott:...
Performers: Novak, Gail; Pepping, Amanda

Monk Suite

1 CD / Savoy Label Group / 2004-06-29

Works: Thelonious Monk: Well you needn't; Rhythm-a-ning; Crepescule with Nellie; Work(s); Round Midnight, song; Misterioso; Brilliant Corners; Duke Ellington: It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swi...
Performers: Carter, Ron [Bass]; Israels, Chuck; Kronos Quartet; Marshall, Eddie; Marshall, Eddie [Drums]

Personnel: Hank Dutt (violin, viola); David Harrington, John Sherba (violin); Joan Jeanrenaud (cello); Eddie Marshall (drums).

Recording information: Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA (1984).
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Round Midnight / Twelve Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2002-08-13

Works: Duke Ellington: Caravan; Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story; Traditional Spiritual: Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen; Deep River; George Gershwin: Oh, Kay!; Preludes (3) for piano; Henry Mancini: P...
Performers: Bronner, Till; Quandt, Ludwig; Rattle, Simon, Sir; Saksala, Janne; Twelve Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic
Conductors:
Ensemble: 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic

Historical instruments utilized by the Twelve Cellists are as follows:

Georg Faust: Giovanni Baptista Grancino, Milan - 1705

Ludwig Quandt: Giovanni Ruggeri, Cremona - late 17th century...continue...

Around the World / Band of His Majesty the King's Guard

1 CD / Norway Music / 2001-02-02

Works: Norwegian Traditional: Honnor for Kongehuset, ancient military band signal; Ole Olsen: Numedals Bataljonsmarsj, for military band; John Brakstad: Variations for Band; Henrik Lyssand: Ved Nesland Kyrk...
Conductors: Caspersen, Sverre

Telarc Collection, Vol. 3

1 CD / Telarc / 1992-06-23

Works: Louis Prima: Sing, Sing, Sing; Jacques Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne; John Field: Sonata for Piano (no 4) in B major, H. 17; Mark Fisher: When You're Smiling; Sergey Prokofiev: Romeo and J...
Performers: Curnow, Jeffrey; Daniels, Eddie; Dorsey, Don; Dunham, James [Viola]; George, Jimmy; Gillespie, Dizzy; Gordon, David [Tenor Vocal]; Gutierrez, Horacio; Hackleman, Martin; Hartman, Scott; Katz, Paul [C...
Conductors: Kunzel, Erich; Levi, Yoel; ; Shaw, Robert; Mackerras, Charles, Sir; Schickele, Peter; Previn, Andre; López-Cobos, Jesús; Zinman, David
Ensemble: ; Atlanta Symphony Chorus; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Cincinnati Pops Orchestra; Cleveland Orchestra; Cleveland String Quartet; Empire Brass; Greater Hoople Area Off-Se...