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We have to assume that the ABC's-of-jazz primer that is PURE JAZZ was assembled and released to coincide with Ken Burns's ten-part JAZZ documentary and Burns's own jazz-history box set and single-disc compilation. At the same time, we have to admire PURE JAZZ for covering so many bases within such a short amount of musical space-time. This is a whirlwind tour of many disparate avenues in the jazz world. The listener is guided from the early swing of Benny Goodman's "Sing, Sing, Sing" to Dave Brubeck's pioneering odd-metered, cool-jazz anthem "Take Five" to the bossa-jazz of "Girl from Ipanema by Stan Getz and Joao & Astrud Gilberto, all on a single disc. All the cuts included here are classics, and all will be familiar to jazz fans, but PURE JAZZ is created for, and will be of service to the jazz neophyte.
Digitally remastered by Doug Schwartz (Audio Mechanics).
Compilation producers: Ken Druker, Jeff Moskow.
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