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Woody Herman – Songs For Hip Lovers
Woody Herman – Songs For Hip Lovers
Songs for Hip Lovers is a 1957 vocal album by the jazz bandleader Woody Herman, arranged by Marty Paich. Ken Dryden reviewed the album for [More]
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Count Basie Encounters Oscar Peterson – Satch and Josh
Count Basie Encounters Oscar Peterson – Satch and Josh
Satch and Josh is a 1974 album by Oscar Peterson and Count Basie. “Producer Norman Granz occasionally got carried away with the quantity of his [More]
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Duke Ellington – Duke Ellington’s Far East Suite
Duke Ellington – Duke Ellington’s Far East Suite
Far East Suite is a 1967 concept album by  Duke Ellington, inspired by his group’s tour of Asia. Ellington and longtime collaborator Billy Strayhorn wrote [More]
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Jimmie Lunceford – Running a Temperature
Jimmie Lunceford – Running a Temperature
Track listing: 00:00 Slumming on Park Avenue (Remastered 2014) 02:59 Coquette (Remastered 2014) 06:07 The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down (Remastered 2014) 08:55 Ragging the Scale (Remastered [More]
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Ella Fitzgerald With The Roy Eldridge Sextet – Live in Stockholm 1957
Ella Fitzgerald With The Roy Eldridge Sextet – Live in Stockholm 1957
Billed as a Jazz at the Philharmonic performance, this concert consists of two intimate sets: the first showcases Roy Eldridge leading an All Star sextet, [More]
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Artie Shaw – Re-Creates His Great ’38 Band
Artie Shaw – Re-Creates His Great ’38 Band
It’s 1938 band that was recreated in stereo in 1968 by Capitol Records, with Shaw conducting and producing, though not playing. Shaw’s clarinet part is [More]
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Lester Young – The Complete Aladdin Recordings Of Lester Young
Lester Young – The Complete Aladdin Recordings Of Lester Young
Lester Young recorded for the Aladdin label between December 1945 and December 1947, leading a series of small groups that would range in size from [More]
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Coleman Hawkins – The Stanley Dance Session
Coleman Hawkins – The Stanley Dance Session
“In February 1958 Stanley Dance oversaw two recording sessions headed up by Coleman Hawkins. By this point in his long and eventful career, Hawkins was [More]
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Willie “The Lion” Smith – The Chronological Classics 1925-1937
Willie “The Lion” Smith – The Chronological Classics 1925-1937
“Willie “The Lion” Smith, one of stride piano’s Big Three of the 1920s (along with James P. Johnson and Fats Waller), recorded a lot less [More]
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Joe Marsala – The Chronological Classics: 1936-1942
Joe Marsala – The Chronological Classics: 1936-1942
“An excellent swing clarinetist who was flexible enough to play hot on Dixieland records, Marsala’s six sessions reflect his versatile musical tastes. Among his more [More]
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