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| Jackie Deshannon Bluebird Rca music Easy Living CD (2006)
$5.95 Even though the alto saxophonist Paul Desmond is justly celebrated for his long tenure in the Dave Brubeck Quartet, he led a quite different kind of quartet of his own with the fine guitarist Jim Hall and MJQ drummer Connie
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| Bebo & Cigala Bluebird Rca CDs Lagrimas Negras CD (2004)
$8.49 Lágrimas Negras (Black Tears) is a collaborative effort between the octogenarian Cuban piano master Bebo Valdés and the reigning Spanish flamenco cantador, Dieguito El Cigala. Recorded for Fernando Trueba and Nat Chediak's Calle 54 label, the sessions took place in
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| Glenn Miller Bluebird Rca Records Essential Glenn Miller (Legacy) CDs (2005) Remastered
$15.89 While there's no shortage of Glenn Miller collections, there aren't many that rival Bluebird/Legacy's THE ESSENTIAL GLENN MILLER. This two-disc, 38-track compilation covers the peak years of the iconic bandleader/trombonist's career, and includes a welcome handful of numbers recorded with
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| Larry Carlton Bluebird Rca music Fire Wire CD (2005)
$7.59 Although guitarist Larry Carlton is known primarily as a smooth-jazz performer, both solo and with Fourplay, his roots are in session work with pop/rock artists, most notably Steely Dan and Joni Mitchell. On 2006's FIREWIRE, Carlton gets back to his
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| Eliane Elias Bluebird Rca CDs Dreamer CD (2004)
$9.55 Eliane Elias' second record for Bluebird is, like the previous Kissed by Nature, a vocal date intended for crossover audiences. Elias connects with her Brazilian pop heritage by choosing to sing, early on, a pair of Astrud Gilberto pieces, "Call
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| Paul Desmond Bluebird Rca music Two Of A Mind CD (1962) Remastered
$7.59 A pinnacle of coolly understated improvisation, 1962's TWO OF A MIND is a highly successful collaboration between the contrapuntally inclined baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan and the lyrical, urbane altoist Paul Desmond. As was Mulligan's penchant during most of his career,
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| Artie Shaw Bluebird Rca Records Essential Artie Shaw CDs (2005) Remastered
$16.09 ESSENTIAL is an appropriate title for this double-disc collection of Artie Shaw's music. The temperamental, progressive bandleader and clarinetist was one of the top figures in swing, and his arrangements and recordings of classic songs (Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine,"
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| Lena Horne Bluebird Rca CDs Stormy Weather CD (1957) Remastered; Digipak
$6.05 One of Lena Horne's finest studio outings, 1957's STORMY WEATHER (not to be confused with other similarly named releases) features the Brooklyn-born singer at the height of her powers. On these sessions--conducted by either her husband, Lennie Hayton, or Marty
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| Larry Carlton Bluebird Rca music Sapphire Blue CD (2004)
$7.59 Larry Carlton may not have been issuing records in the United States with any regularity, but Sapphire Blue proves he hasn't been sitting on his hands, either. It's
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| Duke Ellington Bluebird Rca Records Never No Lament/The Blanton-Webster Band, 1940-1942 CDs (2003)
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