Jazz CDs

Re-released on CD for 2012. With 3 Bonus Tracks!

Re-released on CD for 2012. With 5 Bonus Tracks!

Re-released on CD for 2012. With 6 Bonus Tracks!

Re-released on CD for 2012. With 5 Bonus Tracks!

Re-released on CD for 2012. With 7 Bonus Tracks!

Re-released on CD for 2012. With 5 Bonus Tracks!

Includes Movements 1-6.

Chris Jentsch, who moved to Brooklyn in 1999 (he grew up in southern New Jersey closer to Philadelphia) and recorded Brooklyn Suite live at Symphony Space on February 27, 2005. The pieces that comprise Jentsch's Brooklyn Suite were originally played by his quartet, but for this concert, he reworked ...

Adderley achieved immortality in the Miles Davis Quintet with Kind of Blue. Ten years later Adderley was touring Europe with his own quintet and gave a performance at Stuttgart’s Liederhalle. From soul jazz and blues (Sweet Emma, Why Am I Treated So Bad), to free-form contemporariness (Somewhere) an...

Art Blakey was a rhythmic volcano, but when Blakey appeared with his Jazz Messengers at the Sängerhalle Untertürk- heim on July 15, 1978 the volcano triggered a medium-scale earthquake. This is the band with which Blakey set neo-bop on fire and gave a new lease of life to the triplet pulse of swing....

New Yorker Gerry Mulligan spent his teenage years learning in succession to play piano, clarinet, alto, tenor and finally baritone sax. Together with Gil Evans and Miles Davis, the 20-year-old worked on the revolutionary nonet compositions for Birth of the Cool in 1948. With Chet Baker he formed a p...

Eva Cassidy is the voice that has enchanted listeners world-wide over the past decade or so. Never afforded the stage her talent deserved in life Eva has sold over 8 million records internationally and 85,000 CD’s in NZ. Now on the 10th anniversary of the seminal “Songbird...

A laboUr of love" is how José James describes his For All We Know, his first for the Impulse! label. A collaboration between James and noted Belgian pianist Jef Neve, the album finds the charismatic young singer applying his warm, rich baritone to a sterling assortment of jazz standards,...

This is a Super Audio CD playable only on Super Audio CD players.The crown jewel of the epic Evans/Davis triptych that began with MILES AHEAD and PORGY AND BESS, SKETCHES OF SPAIN is as emotionally compelling as any performance in the trumpeter's remarkable body of works. Combining as it does the em...

Personnel: Laura Fygi (vocals), Jurre Haanstra (conductor, arranger), Ferdinand Povel (flute, saxophone), Hans Vroomans (piano), Gwenael Micault, John Van Eyk (keyboards), Jurre Haanstra (keyboards, bass, drums, percussion), Francis Goya, Phil Lee, Bert Meulendijk (guitar), Ruud Jacobs, Malcolm Cree...

In salsa and Latin jazz, two brothers stand tall as the giants of the piano: Charlie and Eddie Palmieri. From the late 1940s to the present day, the brothers have been a dominant force in Latin music. Both excelled at playing salsa, becoming the genres preeminent piano legends, but they were also re...

Formed in New York City in 1969, The Manhattan Transfer rose to the top of the UK charts in 1977 with Chanson D’Amour, a record that kicked off a love affair between the British public and the vocal quartet. Effortlessly switching from rock and roll to pop, bebop, old time gospel, bossa nov...

This fantastic 2CD set celebrates 30 of the most iconic singers, performing some of the best loved songs ever written. From Frank Sinatra to John Barrowman, and Nina Simone to Sarah Vaughan, these truly are the Great Voices of our time. In an era when reality television unearths more so-ca...

A longtime contributor to Flying Lotus’ projects, Stephen Bruner aka Thundercat has music in his DNA. His dad was a drummer in The Temptations, at 15, he scored a hit in Germany as part of the short-lived boy band No Curfew. At 16, he toured Japan with soul man Leon Ware and joined thrash legends Su...

Two albums in one package! **Tracklisting:** **Disc 1:** 01 UPSIDE DOWN - ALBUM VERSION 02 TENDERNESS - ALBUM VERSION 03 FRIEND TO FRIEND - ALBUM VERSION 04 I'M COMING OUT - ALBUM VERSION 05 HAVE FUN (AGAIN) - ALBUM VERSION 06 MY OLD PIANO - ALBUM VERSION 07 NOW THAT YOU'RE GONE - A...