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When it comes to jazz organ, Jimmy Smith is definitely among the most popular performers ever. Along with McDuff and McGriff, Smith came to define the soul-jazz genre--an engaging, grooving mixture of gospel, R&B, pop, and hard bop elements. Previously unreleased, STRAIGHT LIFE is a trio session from 1961 recorded shortly before Smith's rise to stardom beyond the jazz scene. LIFE is a fun romp through a batch of early pop standards (plus a few originals) with Smith cooking on all burners and frequent drummer Donald Bailey providing the right snap and crackle.
Personnel: Jimmy Smith (organ).
Additional personnel: Quentin Warren (guitar); Donald Bailey (drums).
Jimmy Smith Straight Life Songs Straight Life Music Review Purchase Straight Life CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Andrew Hill Dance With Death CD (1968) Remastered
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Andrew Hill's Dance of Death, recorded in 1968 with a stellar band, was not issued until 1980. In the late 1960s, Blue Note was no longer the most adventurous of jazz labels. While certain titles managed to scrape through -- Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music did but only because Francis Wollf personally financed it -- many didn't. The label was firmly in the soul-jazz groove by then, and Hill's music, always on the edge, was deemed too outside for the label's roster. Musically, this is Hill at his most visionary. From hard- and post bop frames come modal and tonal inquiries of staggering complexity. Accompanied by trumpeter Charles Tolliver, saxophonist Joe Farrell, drummer Billy Higgins and bassist Victor Sproles, Hill engages, seemingly, all of his muses at once. Check out the sinister modal blues that is "Fish 'N' Rice" with its loping Eastern-tinged blues and loping horn lines around Hill's knotty fills in the head and choruses. In "Partitions" the steaming head is so rigorously tangled it's only the counterpoint of Hill's piano that makes an exit possible, with deep blues underpinnings and strident swinging soul. The title cut dances Afro-Cuban in the head, but Hill's piano is in a minor modal groove, with Higgins playing a textural, ...
| | Thelonious Monk At Carnegie Hall CD (2005)
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On paper it seems as if such titanic and distinctive musical personalities as Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane might not mix very well, but this stellar set, recorded live at Carnegie Hall in 1957, plays almost like a blissful extended duet between the two (with support from a sensitive yet hard-swinging bassist and drummer). The opener, "Monk's Mood," for example, features the composer/pianist's typically brilliant, idiosyncratic playing, while Coltrane floats over the top in the most lyrical of modes. Monk, in particular, is a master of tension-and-release ...
| | Booker Ervin Tex Book Tenor CD (2005)
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Tex Book Tenor was recorded in 1968 as a follow-up to Booker Ervin's debut date for Blue Note, The In Between, which was released in January of the same year. (Ervin had made two records for Pacific Jazz, which is now owned, like Blue Note, by EMI.) The album remained unreleased until 1976, when it was issued with an also unreleased Horace Parlan date on a double LP called Back from the Gig. This is its first appearance on CD. The lineup is stellar and includes Billy Higgins, Woody Shaw, Kenny Barron, and bassist Jan Arnet from Czechoslovakia. Barron and Ervin had worked together before, and Arnet had worked with Ervin three years earlier as a touring partner in Germany. The music here includes three Ervin originals, Barron's wonderful "Gichi," and Shaw's "In a Capricornian Way." The Afro-Latin-influenced grooves of "Gichi" display Ervin playing his solo in prime snake-charmer mode. His own "Den Tex" is classic hard bop with Barron and Ervin going head to head throughout. "Lynn's Tune" is a beautiful midtempo ballad with wonderful work by Arnet and a loping solo by Shaw. The closer is "204," a steaming ...
| | Stanley Turrentine Bluish Bag CD (2007)
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$12.49
One of the giants of soul-jazz, Stanley Turrentine and his mellow, agile, bluesy saxophone can be heard on many of the most seminal recordings of the genre, including Jimmy Smith's BACK AT THE CHICKEN SHACK. But Turrentine also made a steady torrent of solo recordings over the years, most of which adhered to the soul-jazz template he'd helped perfect.
In 1967 Turrentine participated in some sessions with a large ensemble (this in itself was unusual, as the saxophonist most often played with small combos). These sessions, ...
| | Frank Foster Manhattan Fever CD (1968)
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| | Introducing Kenny Cox CD (1968)
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| | Sonny Stitt Legends Of Acid Jazz CD (1996)
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$9.79
This CD reissues the complete contents of two former Lp's by saxophonist Sonny Stitt: Turn It On and Black Vibrations. These are rather unusual entries in Stitt's huge discography in that Sonny often sounds like a guest performer on his own sessions rather than ...
| | Bluemchen Jasmin CD (1998) (Import)
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| | Paul Reddick Rattlebag CD (2001)
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$12.65
Paul Reddick and company dig into the pre-World War II rural blues repertoire. They come up with ...
| | Craig Harris Blackout In The Square Root Of Soul CD (1987) (Import)
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$14.95
An ambitious but ultimately unsuccessful venture by Harris, several elements of this album do not stand the test of time very well. In particular, Clyde Criner's synthesizer sounds alternately loopy and saccharine and Jean-Paul Bourelly's guitar strays too close to fusion to fit comfortably in Harris' framework. The synth mars an otherwise lovely performance of "Love Joy," a standard in Harris' repertoire and a terrific tune, rousingly played by the rest of the band. Other pieces suffer from a shaky conception and unclear playing, however, striving for the leader's apparent balancing act between soulful post-bop, ...
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| | Monsieur Lune Le Soir Au Reveil CD (2006) (Import)
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| | Charles R Smith Jr Portrait Of A Poet CD (2005)
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$15.19
| | 99 Smokin Hot Drum Loops Funk Pop Drum Loops Guitar Bass & Keyboard Samples CD (2008)
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