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Classic Mingus. Recommended for jazz fans and those new to the genre. If you're starting a jazz collection, put this album high on the list.
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This is a stereo SACD not a 6-channel remastering. It's nice, but if you've heard 6-channel, it's somewhat disappointing.
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OK - let me explain. The songs are fantastic, very inventive, with combinations of blues, swing and bop. The musicianship is first-rate. The CD sounds great in my car, but when I play it on my home system, it sounds flat, harsh, and muddled. I...
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The Only Big Band CD You'll Ever Need isn't completely comprehensive; but as a single CD retrospective it works. The quality of the sound is rather good and the artwork is excellent. We get a good sampler of what made people dance back in the era...
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Although the song titles are great, the music sounds very flat. these songs are all likely original recordings. If you want to hear the original sound and imagine your stereo systems as one of those old horn-type record players, you'll love this...
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This album is an excellent collection from John Coltrane's Atlantic years, or his middle period. It starts off with the complex "Giant Steps". Other highlights are "Naima" and "My Shining Hour". Included is the classic "My Favorite Things". Also...
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What's another five-star review on the pile of existing ones for "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady"? Nothing, really, except to echo dozens of reviewers before me in calling this album a brilliant, groundbreaking, remarkable synthesis of a...
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This was the fisrt Mingus album I collected, and I have been searching through his catalogue for its equal ever since. Sure, his earlier work on Columbia (think "Mingus Ah Um") was truly special, but nothing I've heard captures the spirit of this...
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I don't like this one particularly. People have gone on and on about this release for years, but I just don't hear why. I recommend Mingus' other recordings, which are less formally structured but which I find more coherent and impressive.
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"Moon Beams" was recorded a year after the unfortunate death of fellow bandmate and bassist for Evans' now classic trio, Scott LaFaro. I think Evans' music changed after LaFaro's death and this recording represents a heartfelt dedication and a...
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Of all the Ravi Shankar's 'fusion' compositions in the sixties, seventies and some more later, this one stands apart from the others. First of all, performances are of highest class as usual. One cannot imagine a better quality. Regardless of...
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Overrated is the word that comes to mind when I think of this. Can any collection of songs sound anymore similar than these? All I can say is, you hear one you hear them all.
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Great duo recording by two of the greatest jazz musicians in the world!
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This is a wonderful album. The tunes and the performances are tremendous. I don't know who the keyboard player is but if you enjoy piano, that in itself is worth the album. The band is so tight and smooth; excellent recording. Highly recommended.
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By 1961 when "Focus" was recorded, Stan Getz was a rising jazz star. "Focus" is one of a kind. The strings are not used as "filler" behind Getz's marvelous playing. The Beaux Arts Orchestra does not sound as if they are a "second thought". Their...
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Stan Getz was great. This CD, however, is hard to listen to. It sounds like music I used to hear in my dentist's office. If you like Charlie Parker with Strings, you'll love this album. If you enjoy straight ahead jazz, consider yourself...
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I have most of these tunes on other CD's and records. Now I
have them all on one disc.
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I still maintain that Monk's best album is "Straight, No Chaser." That being said, the same personnel are on this album, and it is a darn good one. My favorites are "Boo-Boo's birthday," "Raise Four," "Easy Street," the self-titled "Thelonious,"...
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Thelonious Monk entered the studio in late 1967 and early 1968 for the last time with his long-standing quartet of Charlie Rouse (tenor sax), Larry Gales (bass) and Ben Riley (drums) to record a new album, an album that would be new in more ways...
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What a wonderful way to relax!! This CD is for anyone who enjoys and appreciates a good, mellow, sound.
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Ok, shoot me---Koln Concert isn't my favorite solo concert. To me, this just shoots Koln in the foot! Why?

Koln Concert is a masterpiece, full of development and extreme detail to development. However, La Scala is romance in his...
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Miguel of Seattle hits it on the head: mindless is just one word that comes to mind; boring, unfocused etc.
As a trio and if you can stand the vocal orgasms of Jarrett the group swings. But the solo efforts are not much more than fooling...
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Like many of his other solo concerts, the pieces in La Scala is called "Part 1" and "Part 2", a hint that the pieces is anonymous and not so individual to deserve a name. One might feel that the naming is appropriate because "Part 1" doesn't sound...
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This is Mehldau like you can only hear in your dreams. Subtle yet powerful, melodic yet inspiring... These performances made him one of the greatest pianists of our time. If you are new to Mehldau and want to buy one album, this is it.
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I am so glad that I purchased this Brad Maldau album first. After seeing all these rave reviews for this album, with comments that tell me this is his trio at its strongest, I know that Mehldau is not for me. I will give him one star for his...
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If I could rate this album 20 stars I would. 5 stars does not seem adequate to describe how great this album is. The playing the recording
the tunes all make this an exellent purchase. Big band playing really
does not get much better...
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This disc marks something of an exception to Henderson's latterday label-sponsored concentration on revisiting other people's repertoire (Gershwin, Davis, Jobim, Strayhorn &c), though it's in some ways no less focussed on the past: this disc is a...
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"The music on this recording is very special, not only because it is the last documented recording of Stan Getz, but also because the music is real, honest, pure and beautiful in spite of the pain or perhaps because of it." ~ Kenny Barron,...
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At its best, the music here flows like a Sunday drive on a country road; at its worst, it sounds like soft, soggy background music. If you like this album, you'll love what is perhaps the best duet album of all time: "Blues For Two" by Joe Pass...
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What more can one say of this classic album except that it ranks next to "Kind of Blue" as one of those essentials you cannot do without. Every tune in this album is flawless with "Stolen Moments", perhaps the jazz standard like "So What", a...
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This is one of Bill's best efforts.... I simply never tire of the beautiful expressions that only Bill Evans is capable of... the greatest jazz pianist ever... without question. If you are a Bill Evans admirer.. you need this one in your collection.
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This CD version is better than the original LP because of its inclusion of Welcome. This is the best post-Love Supreme Coltrane, and one of the best avant garde jazz albums of all time. If you like Coltrane, you must own this. I would rank it as...
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I consider that it is a complete disk, their music and interpretation is of high quality
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I really like a lot of the music on this 2-CD set, but I'm a little disappointed in one respect: When I buy piano jazz, I want to hear piano. I do not want to hear trumpet and I most emphatically do NOT want to hear saxophone. This comment only...
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