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Tuesday July 1, 2008

NEW RELEASES

Aloha Heaven Luana – Aloha Heaven Luana (Pid )
Aloha Kids – Aloha Kids-Happy Songs- (Pid )
Alphonse Mouzon – Back To Jazz (Pausa )
Alphonse Mouzon – 11th House (Pausa )
Anthony Ocaa – Solo (AO)
Art Taylor – A.T. Delight (Pid )
Art Taylor – A.T.S Delight (EMI Japan )
Bailey’s Melbourne Jazz Fest 2001 – Bailey’s Melbourne Jazz Fest 2001 (Jazzhead Oz )
Beck / Grabowsky / Oehlers – Lost & Found (Pid )
Ben Webster – Soulville (Universal Japan )
Ben Winkleman – Spanish Tinge (Jazzhead)
Bill Evans & Jim Hall – Intermoduration (Universal Japan )
Bola Sete – Workin On A Groovy Thing (Universal Japan )
Bossa Kids – Bossa Kids (Pid )
Cannonball Adderley Quintet – Live In Italy 1969 (Pid )
Carmen Mccrae – Live At The Flamingo (Pid )
Chaplin / Lambie / Rex / Tinkler – Future In Today (Jazzhead Oz )
Charlie Haden – Liberation Music Orchestra (Universal Japan)
Charlie Haden – Ribereshon Orchestra Music (Universal Japan )
Charlie Rouse – Bossa Nova Bacchanal (Pid )
Cherry Quartet / Rollins – Complete 1963 Paris Concert (Pid )
Chick Corea – Expressions (Universal Japan )
Count Basie – Kansas City Seven (Universal Japan )
Dave Brubeck Quartet – Newport 1956 & 1959 (Pid )
Dave Brubeck Quartet – 1965 Canadian Concert (Pid )
Dave Liebman – Negatice Space (Verve )
Dave Liebman – Negative Space (Verve )
David Beck / Paul Grabowsky / Jamie Oehlers – Lost & Found (Jazzhead Oz )
DJ Kaori – DJ Kaori’s Ragga Mix (Pid )
DJ Kaoris Ragga Mix – DJ Kaoris Ragga Mix (Universal Japan )
Donald Byrd – Byrd,Donald Vol. 1-At The Half Note Cafe (Pid )
Donald Byrd – Byrd,Donald Vol. 2-At The Half Note Cafe (Pid )
Donald Byrd – At The Half Note Cafe Vol.1 (EMI Japan )
Donald Byrd – At The Half Note Cafe Vol.2 (EMI Japan )
Douglas J. Cuomo – Arjuna’s Dilema (Innova (American Composers Forum) )
Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges – Back To Back (Universal Japan )
Earl Hines – In Paris (Everest )
Earl Hines – Richard Davis/Elvin Jones/Ahmed Abdul-Malik/Oliver (Pid )
Edison / Getz / Mulligan – Jazz Giants ‘58 (Pid )
Edu Lobo – Sergio Mendes Presents Edu Lobo (Revola)
Farmer / Hall Quartet – Complete Live Recordings (Pid )
Feeling Groovies – Down Deep (Jazzhead Oz )
Festa – Wide (Jazzhead Oz )
Focus – Ship Of Memories (JVC Japan )
Freddie Redd – Shades Of Redd (Blue Note Records (USA) )
Fried Pride: Milestone-10th Anniversary – Fried Pride: Milestone-10th Anniversary (Pid )
Gadd Gang – Here & Now (Pid ) – SACD
Gadd Gang – Live At The Bottom Line (Pid ) – SACD
Gene Ammons – Swingin The Jug (Pid )
George Russell Sextet – Live In Bremen & Paris 1964 (Pid )
Gibbs / Morgan – Latin Connection (JDC )
Giya Kancheli – Little Imber (Pid )
Grant Green – I Want To Hold Your Hand (Pid )
Headhunters – On Top:Live In Europe (Zyx )
Herbie Hancock – My Point Of View (Pid )
Horace Silver – Horace – Scope (EMI Japan )
Ian Chaplin – Tjapangati (Jazzhead Oz )
Ike Quebec – Blue And Sentimental (EMI Japan )
Iwao – Shangri-La (Pid )
J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding – Great Kai & J.J. (Universal Japan )
J.R. Monterose – Complete Studio Recordings (Pid )
James Sherlock – James Sherlock Trio (Jazzhead Oz )
Jamie Oehlers – Assemblers (Jazzhead Oz )
Javabubbaboogaloo – Javabubbaboogaloo (Jazzhead Oz )
Jazzhead 2002 – Jazzhead 2002 (Jazzhead Oz )
Jazzhead 2003 – Jazzhead 2003 (Jazzhead Oz )
Jazzhead 2006 – Jazzhead 2006 (Jazzhead Oz )
John Coltrane – Crescent (Universal Japan )
John Coltrane – Impressions (Impulse Records )
John Surman – How Many Clouds Can You See? (Pid )
John Surman – Tales Of The Algonquion (Pid )
John Surman – Jazz In Britain ‘68-’69 (Pid )
John Surman – How Many Clouds Can You See (Universal Japan )
John Surman – Tales Of Algonquion (Universal Japan )
John Surman – Jazz In Britain 68-69 (Universal Japan )
John Surman – Paper Sleeve Box (Pid )
Junior Mance – Junior (Universal Japan )
Jutta Hipp – With Zoot Sims (Pid )
Kaori Kobayashi – Shiny (Pid )
Kenny Burrell – Whole Picture Kenny Burrell (Universal Japan )
Kimiko Itoh – For Lovers Only (Pid ) – SACD
Lalo Schifrin – Dissection & Reconstruction Of Mus (Pid )
Lee Morgan – Rumproller (Pid )
Lee Morgan Septet – Dizzy Atmosphere (Pid )
Leni Stern – Clairvoyant (JDC )
Lennie All Stars Tristano – Live At The Cafe Bohemia (Pid )
Lester Young – Jazz Giants ‘56 (Pid )
Lol Coxhill – Ear Of Beholder (Airmail Japan )
Lou Donaldson – Blues Walk (Pid )
Louis Armstrong – Armstrong,Louis Vol. 5-Integrale: 1928-1931 (Pid )
Louis Smith – Here Comes Louis Smith (Blue Note Records )
Louis Smith – Here Comes (Pid )
Margie Day – Dawn Of A New Day / Experience ( )
Marina Rama – Blessing (Pid )
Mauch / North – Musical Banquet (Pid )
Mccoy Tyner – Real Mccoy (Pid )
Miles Davis – The Musings of Miles (Prestige )
Miles Davis – Live 58/59 (Pid )
Milton Nascimento & Jobim Trio – Novas Bossas (Emd Int’L )
Misinterprotato – In Is In (Jazzhead )
Monty Alexander – Taste Of Freedom (Universal Japan )
Naoya Matsuoka – Fiesta Fiesta & Wesing (Pid )
Naoya Matsuoka – Steffanie De Praia (Pid )
Naoya Matsuoka – An Affair To Remember-50th Anniver (Pid )
Naoya Matsuoka & Hideshi Toki – Pacific Jam (Pid )
New Swing Sextet – Back On The Streets (Fania )
New York Ska Jazz Ensemble – Collection 1995-04 (Pid )
Norman Brown – Just Between Us (GRP )
Ohta-San – Hawaiian Mood (Pid )
Oscar Peterson – Oscar Peterson World (Universal Japan )
Oscar Peterson – Hello Herbie (Universal Japan )
Oscar Pettiford – Deep Passion (Universal Japan )
Plas Johnson / Ernie Watts – All Blues (3D Japan )
Quincy Jones – Quintessence (Verve (USA) )
Rebecka Tornqvist – Tremble My Heart (EMI Sweden )
Rebecka Tornqvist – Good Thing (EMI Sweden )
Rebecka Tornqvist – Stockholm Kaza Session (EMI Sweden )
Rebecka Tornqvist – Travel Like In Songs (EMI Sweden )
Red Fish Blue – Deep (Jazzhead Oz )
Robert de Visee – Pieces De Theorbe (Pid )
Routine Jazz – Routine Jazz (Pid )
Routine Jazz Quintet – Routine Jazz Quintet (Pid )
Roy Haynes – Out Of The Afternoon (Universal Japan )
Rufus Cappadocia / Barney Mcall / Badal Roy – Vivid (Jazzhead Oz )
Sam Keevers / Jamie Oehlers – Grace (Jazzhead Oz )
Scott Joplin – Ragtime: The Music of Scott Joplin (Madacy )
Sean Noonan – Being Brewed By Noon (Innova (American Composers Forum)
Senor Coconut – El Baile Aleman (News )
Sidney Bechet – Definitive Collection (Pid )
Smooth Jazz – Smooth Jazz (Madacy) (Madacy )
Snag – Hey Guess What (Jazzhead Oz )
Soil & Pimp Session – Storm (Pid )
Soil & Pimp Session – Planet Pimp (Pid )
Sonny Criss – This Is Criss (Prestige )
Sonny Rollins – Alfie (Universal Japan )
Stan Getz Quartet – Vancouver Concert 1965 (Pid )
Sy Oliver & His Orchestra – Original Arrangements Of Jimmie Lunceford In Hi-Fi (Pid )
Tarrus Riley – Parables (JVC Japan )
Terr / Webster Sextet – More (Pid )
Terry / Webster Sextet – More (Pid )
Theak-Tet – Gamla Stan (Jazzhead Oz )
Thelonious Monk – Unique Thelonious Monk (JDC )
Tom Varner – Jazz French Horn (New Note )
Treme Brass Band – New Orleans Music! (Mardi Gras )
Tropical Jazz Big Band – Tropical Jazz Big Band (Pid )
Various Artists – Ragtime: The Music Of Scott Joplin (Madacy )
Various Artists – Smooth Jazz (Madacy )
Various Artists – Greatest Hits Of Smooth Jazz (N-Coded Music )
Various Artists – Jazzhead 2005 (Jazzhead )
Various Artists – 10 Corso Como 4:Mare Nostrum (Phantom Sound & Vision )
Victor Biglione – Condor (Delira Musica Brasil )
Viktoria Tolstoy – White Russian (EMI Sweden )
Walter Beasley – Walter Beasley (Verve )
Wangaratta Live – Wangaratta Live (Jazzhead Oz )
Way Out West – Old Grooves For New Streets (Jazzhead Oz )
Wayne Shorter – Juju (Pid )
Will Downing – Dream Fullfilled (Verve )
Willie Tee – Warren Storm, Willie Tee & Cypress (Jin )
Woody Herman – Thundering Herds 1945-47 (Pid )
Yuki Yamauchi – Slack-Key Guitar Collection (Pid )
Yusef Lateef – Gentle Giant (Wounded Bird )

REISSUES

Alan Skidmore – Once Upon a Time (Vocalion)
Art Blakey – Mosaic (Blue Note)
Count Basie / Diane Schuur – Diane Schuur & Count Basie Orchestra / SHM (Universal Japan )
Count Basie / Diane Schuur – Diane Schuur & Count Basie Orchestra (Universal Japan )
Dexter Gordon – Dexter Calling (Blue Note)
Elvin Jones & Richard Davis – Heavy Sounds / SHM (Universal Japan )
Elvin Jones & Richard Davis – Heavy Sounds (Universal Japan )
Fred Akerstrom – Tva Tungor (Pid )
Fred Akerstrom – Glimmrande Nymf (Pid )
Fred Akerstrom – Vila Vid Denna Kalla (Pid )
George Duke – Faces In Reflection (MPS Records )
Gil Evans – Out Of The Cool (Verve (USA) )
Gil Evans – Out Of The Cool / SHM (Universal Japan )
Horace Silver – Horace-Scope (Blue Note)
Ike Quebec – Blue & Sentimental (Blue Note)
Jackie McLean – Let Freedom Ring (Blue Note)
Jimmy Smith – Back At The Chicken Shack (Blue Note Records )
John Coltrane – Dakar (Victor)
John Coltrane – Crescent / SHM (Universal Japan )
John Surman – John Surman (Vocalion)
Junior Mance – Junior / SHM (Universal Japan )
Lee Konitz – Very Cool (Universal )
Louis Armstrong – Hello Dolly (Mozaic)
Miles Davis – Musings Of Miles (Universal Japan )
Modern Jazz Quartet – Concorde (Universal Japan )
Oscar Pettiford – Deep Passion / SHM (Universal Japan )
Quincy Jones – Quintessence / SHM (Universal Japan )
Red Garland – Groovy (JVC XRCD )
Scott Joplin – Ragtime: The Music Of (Madacy )
Sonny Criss – This Is Criss! (Pid )
Stanley Turrentine – Look Out (Blue Note Records (USA) )
Thelonious Monk – Plays Duke Ellington (Fantasy)
Wes Montgomery – Road Song / SHM (Universal Japan )
Wes Montgomery – Road Song (Universal Japan )
Wynton Kelly – It’s All Right (Universal)

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What was it about him that made me so sad he was gone and, yet, at the same time, brought back such a warm and happy feeling?  Why was it that even though I was reading about him passing away, I smiled when I saw the name Oscar Peterson?

Well, I found some of his music and listened to it.  Ah!  Suddenly it all came back.  That’s why!  Listen to that?  Could I find some video footage of him playing?

Well, of course, in this day and age, if you want to find anything on video, you have to turn to YouTube.  So, I did.  What a great find!  I wanted to share at least one of those with you.

So, for Oscar Peterson playing and for the sheer enjoyment of seeing a musician loving what is playing and conveying that love to an audience, please click HERE.

It’s an interesting trio that Oscar is playing with there.  You can read about it on the site, but it’s Oscar and two bass players.  I haven’t really seen that done too much.

Notice the way Oscar smiles as he plays.  Listen to how fast the notes come.  Listen to the applause from the audience.

Enjoy!

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I am a fan of the horn players, particularly trumpet players.  I also love what many consider to be “classic” jazz.  I admit this.  When I go to my CD player or want to play a tune on my computer, I pull out my Miles Davis collection.  I also love Dizzy and Bird and Charlie Mingus.  I love listening to Thelonius playing the piano or perhaps Earl Hines.

Still, there are modern jazz musicians who play music in that classic tradition.  The Marsalis family would have to be considered among them.

The patriarch is Ellis Marsalis.  I have only ever heard one of his albums and it was one I had when I worked at the jazz radio station in college.  Ellis is a music teacher and he plays piano and he raised his family in the city of New Orleans where he was a major fixture on the New Orleans jazz scene.

His sons are a kind of who’s who in jazz.  There is Branford, who was famous as the guy who was the first band leader Jay Leno played around with when he took over the “Tonight Show.”  Branford plays the saxophone, and he is the one, I feel, ventures the furthest from traditional jazz and will experiment.

Then there is Delfeayo Marsalis.  He plays the trombone.  I am not as familiar with his work as I am Branford and Wynton, but I have heard very good things about him

There is also Jason Marsalis, who is a drummer.  Again, like Delfeayo, I am not as familiar with his work.

For me, my favorite, has always been Wynton.  When it comes to modern jazz trumpeters, for my taste, there is none better than Wynton Marsalis.  I ask you to get his album entitled “Citi Movement” which was released in 1992 for a good example.  It’s still one of my favorite jazz albums.

Wynton is not only a great musician, but he is the Musical Director of Jazz and the Lincoln Center.  He has won nine grammys and he has even won the Pullitzer Prize for Music.  That last award was the first time it had been awarded for jazz music.

Anyway, I suppose there are other modern jazz musician that people can point me to.  I have some of their albums, probably.  For me, though, when I download, or buy or play music from my collection of jazz, it’s the Marsalis family I go to, again and again.

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For an example of the sheer talent and power that Mingus had, track down a version of his “Haitian Fight Song” and I dare you not to be impressed.

Thankfully, there is now a brand new album out of recently-discovered performances and has now been released by Blue Note.   Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy:  Cornell 1964

According to the liner notes, these recordings were found by Sue Mingus and had never been known to exist before this. 

Mingus was a very large man who played the stand up bass.  He was also known for being a very demanding performer, often demanding that the audience hold their applause during the performance and saving it for the end.  He was also a master musician and band leader and a huge influence on jazz in general.

Now, I have not had more than a sampling of the tunes from Amazon.com and notes and articles about the album in various jazz publications, but I intend to get this album as soon as I can.  Apparently most jazz experts didn’t even know the concert itself had taken place, let alone that there were recordings for it.

Check it out, jazz lovers.  It’s a jazz great you just need to know and a truly amazing “lost recording.”

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