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Gil Evans: Four Classic Albums: New Bottle, Old Wine/Great Jazz Standards/Out of the Cool/Into the Hot *

CD / Avid Jazz / 2013-02-26

Tracks: St. Louis Blues; King Porter Stomp; Willow Tree; Struttin' with Some Barbecue; Lester Leaps In; 'Round Midnight; Manteca; Bird Feathers; Davenport Blues; Straight, No Chaser; Ballad of the Sad Young ...
Artists: Gil Evans

Audio Remasterer: Dave Bennett .

Recording information: New Jersey (10/10/1961); New York (10/10/1961); New Jersey (11/??/1960-10/31/1961); New York (11/??/1960-10/31/1961).

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Lee Konitz: Four Classic Albums *

CD / Avid Jazz / 2013-02-26

Tracks: 'Round Midnight; Daffodil's Smile, The; I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good); Music For Alto Saxophone and Strings, Pt. 1; Music For Alto Saxophone and Strings, Pt. 2; Music For Alto Saxophone and Stri...
Artists: Lee Konitz

Audio Remasterer: Ted Kendall.

Liner Note Authors: George Wein; William Russo.

Recording information: Boston, MA (01/1954-02/1955); New York (01/1954-02/1955); Boston, MA (02/??/1958-10/...continue...

Jack Wilson (Piano US): Jack Wilson Plays Brazilian Mancini

CD / Essential Media Group / 2013-02-12

Artists: Jack Wilson (Piano US)

Spike Robinson: Very Live in Boulder, Colorado *

1 CD / Hep Jazz / 2013-02-12

Tracks: Summertime; Embraceable You; Our Love Is Here to Stay; Theme from Black Orpheus (Day in the Life of a Fool); Scrapple from the Apple; Like Someone in Love; Moonlight in Vermont; Easy to Love; On Gree...
Artists: Spike Robinson

Personnel: Spike Robinson (tenor saxophone); Dale Bruning (guitar); Derryl Goes (drums).

Liner Note Authors: Wayne Scott; Alastair Robertson.

Recording information: The Jazz Cellar, Boul...continue...

Gil Evans: Four Classic Albums: New Bottle, Old Wine/Great Jazz Standards/Out of the Cool/Into the Hot *

CD / Avid Jazz / 2013-02-05

Artists: Gil Evans

This box set bundles together four of legendary jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader Gil Evans' earliest recordings, including New Bottle, Old Wine (1958), Great Jazz Standards (1959), Out...continue...

Julie London: Love Letters

CD / Hallmark / 2013-01-29

Artists: Julie London

Every Julie London album before Love Letters has something to recommend it for fans of vocal pop and jazz or lounge music, but this 1962 release is for London completists only. Love Letters isn't a ba...continue...

Julie London: Swing Me an Old Song

CD / / 2013-01-29

Artists: Julie London

Everyone seems to have forgotten that rock & roll wasn't doing so hot with white audiences at the tail end of the 1950s until the Beatles hit the scene and had everyone going electric again. Instead o...continue...

Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain [Digipak]

1 CD / Columbia (USA) / 2013-01-29

Tracks: Concierto de Aranjuez; Will O' the Wisp; Pan Piper, The; Saeta; Solea
Artists: Miles Davis

Liner Note Author: Nat Hentoff.

Photographer: Verne Smith.

Arranger: Gil Evans.

The crown jewel of the epic Evans/Davis triptych that began with MILES AHEAD and PORGY AND BESS, SK...continue...

Shelly Manne: 2-3-4 [Remastered]

CD / Poll Winners Records / 2013-01-08

Artists: Shelly Manne

Personnel: Shelly Manne (drums), Coleman Hawkins (tenor saxophone), Eddie Costa (vibraphone, piano), Hank Jones (piano), George Duvivier (bass).

Recorded in 1962.

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Lee Konitz: Four Classic Albums

CD / Avid Jazz / 2012-12-04

Tracks: 'Round Midnight; Daffodil's Smile, The; I Got It Bad; Music For Alto Saxophone and Strings, Pt. 1; Music For Alto Saxophone and Strings, Pt. 2; Music For Alto Saxophone and Strings, Pt. 3; What's New...
Artists: Lee Konitz

Avid Jazz reissued four classic albums recorded in the '50s by jazz saxophonist Lee Konitz: Image: Lee Konitz with Strings, You and Lee, Lee Konitz in Harvard Square, and Konitz. This is a great find ...continue...