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Dizzy Gillespie And His Sextets And Orchestra – Shaw ‘Nuff
Dizzy Gillespie And His Sextets And Orchestra – Shaw ‘Nuff
“Those who only know Gillespie from his 1950s efforts onwards can have no conception as to the veritable force of nature his trumpet playing was [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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Mavis Rivers and Shorty Rogers – Mavis Meets Shorty
Mavis Rivers and Shorty Rogers – Mavis Meets Shorty
Mavis Meets Shorty is an album by vocalist Mavis Rivers and trumpeter Shorty Rogers, released on the Reprise label in 1963.     Track listing: [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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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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Stan Kenton – Kenton/Wagner
Stan Kenton – Kenton/Wagner
Kenton – Wagner is an album by the Stan Kenton Orchestra performing jazz arrangements of Richard Wagner’s compositions, recorded in 1964 and released by Capitol [More]
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Gil Evans – The Individualism Of Gil Evans
Gil Evans – The Individualism Of Gil Evans
The Individualism of Gil Evans is an album by pianist, conductor, arranger and composer Gil Evans originally released on the Verve label in 1964. It [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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Harlan Leonard And His Rockets – The Chronological Classics: 1940
Harlan Leonard And His Rockets – The Chronological Classics: 1940
Harlan Leonard (July 2, 1905 – November 10, 1983) was an American jazz bandleader and clarinetist from Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Track listing: 00:00 [More]
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Tiny Parham And His Musicians – 1929-1940
Tiny Parham And His Musicians – 1929-1940
“The second of two Tiny Parham CDs has the pianist’s final two sessions from 1929, his two dates from 1930, and his three very obscure [More]
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