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Great British
Jazz Original recordings from the hey-day of the Brit jazz scene.
JBP.
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Don Byas was a sideman
extrordinare, Max catches him in Paris.
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The New Orleans
Ragamuffins rip it up in Barcelona... ¿Qué? JBP
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Mal Waldron & Steve
Lacy Max reviews their careers and their 1972 collaboration.
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The French
Preservation New Orleans Jazz Band with Sammy Rimington and Fred
Vigorito rip it up. JBP.
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The James Spaulding
Interview. Max gets to know this jazz pioneer.
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B - Sides. A few titbits
that didn't fir anywhere else. MC.
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Dana Leong and the Loft and Nu
Jazz scene. Max listens to an amazingly talented
multi-instrumentalist.
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Dream of The Red Door; The
Transhumans. Max goes where others fear to tread.
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Bunk Johnson.
was "thrawn, quarrelsome and drank too much" but produced some great music in
the mid 40s. JBP.
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The Midnight Serenaders'
new album "Magnolia" is an enjoyable take on the New Orleans sound with a
modern twist. MC.
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The Jazz
O'Maniacs do a pretty good job of re-creating that New Orleans sound...
in Germany! JBP.
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That Develin' Tune. Max
has listened though this 9 CD box set just for us.. (I think he quite enjoyed
it!).
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The Mix. Maxwell (our man
in Paris) traces the development of cabaret and follows it through to a new
project by Linda Kosut.
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Infinite Search Max
checks out Max's new album (Chandler and Perkoff are the Max's
concerned).
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The Original Salty
Dogs. A post-war revivalist outfit who know their stuff. JBP.
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Herbie Nichols. There's a
complete Blue-Note CD out. Max gives us the lowdown.
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Rare Cuts - Well
Done from Kid Ory, Preston Jackson and the Missourians. JBP.
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Lionel Hampton and Stan
Getz Max checks out the vibraphone kings.
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Mal Waldron. This often
overlooked talented pianist died in 2002. MC.
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Sweet Emma Barrett and
her Bell Boys. Haphazard but enjoyable. JBP.
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Wayne Shorter-The All Seeing
Eye. Maxwell takes a peek.
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Shake It and Break It:
Lanin's Southern Serenaders 1921-22. Not so hot. JBP.
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Barry Martyn's Orchestra:
Everybody's Talkin' 'bout .. Sammy Morgan and The Piron Band revisited.
JBP.
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New Orleans Reborn -
Jazz, Blues, Hymns. Big Bill keeps the music alive. JBP.
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The New King. Already
Dead. Who could take on the mantle of Charlie Parker? MC.
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Quintet, Elmo
Hope. Maxwell unearths another remastered gem.
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JBP tries some Italian Trad
Jazz and some "Old Time Black Southern string Music"
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Joyride / Stanley
Turrentine. The Sugar Man - MC.
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Settin' the World on Fire
/ The Firehouse Five - Plus 2. A collection from 1949-71 of the work of
the "Disney Jazz-men". JBP.
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Afro Cuban / Kenny
Dorham Although often the side-man to the big names, here we find
trumpeter Kenny Dorham playing mostly his own compositions in good company with
Hank Mobley and Art Blakey and a latin groove. MC.
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The Definitive Charley
Patton. Max gives us the lowdown on this under-appreciated
pioneer.
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The Unissued Yancey Wire
Recordings. Made in 1951, shortly before his death these informal
recordings find the great man at home with his friends. JBP.
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Joseph Robichaux and
His New Orleans Rhythm Boys. Their complete recordings, now available
on Document. JBP.
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The Night of the
Cookers / Freddie Hubbard. Join Max at Club La Marchal for this
re-mastered and repackaged 2-disk set.
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Senior Moments /
Harlem Hot Stompers. They're old and they stomp! JBP.
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Sonny's Crib / Sonny
Clark. A great pianist who died too young. MC.
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Louisiana Moonshine.
JBP reminds us of the predicament of the New Orleans jazz men.
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Fuego / Donald
Byrd. A gem from 1959, remastered. MC.
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The Complete Blue Note
and Capitol Recordings / Fats Navarro and Tadd Dameron. The title says
it all really. Max urges us not to forget Fats.
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Skies of America / Ornette
Coleman & The London Symphony Orchestra. Quite a lineup, quite an
album! MC.
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Laughin to Keep From Cryin
/ Lester Young. His last album, full of melancholy. MC.
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True / Brian Carrick's
Algiers Stompers. No melancholy here! JBP.
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Sonny's Dream / Sonny
Criss Orchestra. Sonny teams up with Horace Tapscott in this Birth
of the New Cool. MC.
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Workout / Hank
Mobley. Mobley collaborated and/or fell-out with the best. MC.
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Western Swing /
Various. A kind of mixture of jazz, blues, country and folk, with
gusto. JBP.
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Champagne / Spicy
Advice Ragtime Band. They're from Scandinavia you know... JBP.
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Journey In
Satchidananda / Alice Coltrane. Alice plays harp on this unusual
album. MC.
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New Orleans Jazz. JBP
suggests some uplifting listening.
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Filles De Kilimanjaro /
Miles Davis. This album divides opinion. Recorded in '68, it finds
Miles Davis at a stylistic crossroads. MC.
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Piano in the Foreground
/ Duke Ellington. Remastered and with bonus tracks here is a fine
Ellington trio; " rich and moody - cool blues and limpid greens".
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Mingus Dynasty /
Charles Mingus. Re-mastered Mingus classic. MC.
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Mode For Joe / Joe
Henderson. Sixties sax re-mastered. MC.
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Night Lights / Gerry
Mulligan. Essential "Cool Jazz". MC.
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Cool Blues / Jimmy
Smith. Max thought he didn't like organ music until a friend turned him
on to Jimmy.
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The Crescent / John
Coltrane. Coltrane's oft-forgotten masterpiece. Max checks it
out.
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Grass Roots / Andrew
Hill. Max checks out a remastered treasure from 1968.
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Thelonious in Action /
Thelonious Monk. Monk at his best, recorded live in 1958. MC.
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Far East Suite / Duke
Ellington. You want a Duke Ellington album, but which one? Maxwell
Chandler gives this one "classic" status.
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Right Now! / Jackie
McLean. Great sixties Jazz, re-mastered. MC.
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The Procrastinator /
Lee Morgan. Classic Jazz. MC.
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Note: MC. = Maxwell Chandler. JBP. = JBP!