SHAKE 'EM UP! - Sidney Bechet (Avid) 2CD https://www.discogs.com/Sidney-Bechet-Shake-Em-Up/release/7066175 All selections are top notch on this excellent sounding 43 track compilation which features music recorded between 1938 & 1947 by the following artists... Noble Sissle Swingsters Sidney Bechet And His Orchestra Port Of Harlem Jazzmen Josh White Trio The Bechet / Spanier Big Four Sidney Bechet's One Man Band Sidney Bechet And His New Orleans Feetwarmers Art Hodes And His Blue Note Jazzmen Joe Sullivan Jazz Quartet Bob Wilber's Wildcats Sidney Bechet Quartet Playing time is 76mins + on each disc. There is a 12 page booklet included. * This is easily the best sounding Avid CD I have heard - it was released before the company re-named themselves Avid Jazz and began releasing poorer sounding pirated music, source from goodness knows where. From that point on I made a point of avoiding all their releases.
Chet is back! - CHET BAKER SEXTET (RCA Victor/Legacy) CD All tracks recorded in Rome at RCA Italiana studios, 1962. CD edition produced and prepared for release by Daniel Baumgarten. 12 page booklet (some of it printed in Italian) is included. CD reissued (2016) via Sony Music's Jazz Connoisseur series. On some numbers Chet really gets up and at 'em on this one!
About once a year I revisit this outstanding album... Jazz In Paris | Broken Wing - Chet Baker (Gitanes/EmArcy) CD with Bass – Jean-François Jenny-Clark / Drums – Jeff Brillinger / Piano – Phil Markowitz / Trumpet & Vocals – Chet Baker Recorded - Paris, December 28,1978 CD 24-bit digitally remastered by Alexis Frenkel & Christophe Henault & issued in digipak with 8 page booklet - half in printed in French / the other half in English. This is an excellent Chet Baker album. The CD inludes two alternate takes (Black Eyes & How Deep Is The Ocean) that were not on the original Sonopresse LP 'Broken Wing'.
Sea Breeze Jazz SB-2124 - Blue Wisp Big Band " A Night At The Wisp" - rec. 2002 - Engineer: Bill Gwynn Featuring John Von Ohlen (dr)
Can't recommend this highly enough. Even if you're only a nominal Brubeck fan. He crossed paths with many of the greats, including Charlie Parker. Aside from that, one of the best music books I've read period. He makes to hear the music ( or want to hear the music) in prose as virtuosic as Dave's playing Dave Brubeck
MILT WARD | MILT WARD AND VIRGO SPECTRUM | TWIN QUEST | 1976 | US FIRST STEREO PRESSING 1116 LP Really, I've tried to find words for this album that sound somewhat original, but I feel that @Bill Hart has done a magnificent job in describing the music found on this (I will say this much) phenomenal album. Please read his excellent review on "Virgo Spectrum" and interview with Bill Pierce. Except for the few involved musicians that are still among us, he probably knows more about his record than anyone else on this planet does.
CHARLES ROUSE | TWO IS ONE | STRATA_EAST | 1974 | US FIRST STEREO PRESSING SES_19746 Charlie Rouse's first album after his 11 year stint with Thelonious Monk. Though Rouse does make allusion to his former mentor with the "Two Is One" album title, the music found here stands completely on its own. This is basically Jazz-Funk with elements of Avantgarde Jazz, excellently executed by (to me at least) unknown sessions musicians. This album is supposed to be reissued by Soul Jazz / Universal Sounds.
KOCH JAZZ 3-6920-2 - The Netherlands Metropole Orchestra feat. Jiggs Wigham " Love Walked In" - rec. 1999 - Engineer: Perry Slyter a.o.
Dallas Jazz Orchestra No Cat# - Galen Jeter & The Dallas Jazz Orchestra " Romeo & Juliet" - reec. 1989 - Engineer: Byron Parka
Beatles by Basie...odd song choices in some cases, but nicely orchestrated by Basie's unmistakable sound. Ringo writes on the back cover.
