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Birdland / Dizzy Gillespie
Paris...Always (Volume One)
A collection on legendary Jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's recordings in Paris On February 9, 1953, Dizzy Gillespie played a live concert at the Salle Pleyel in Paris that was recorded, though when excerpts were first released, there were only enough used to fill one 10" LP. Gillespie close to his best -- as he is here -- is very good indeed, The first ten of the 16 Gillespie-led studio tracks are much in the same vein, though not quite as lively as the concert material. This studio version of "Clappin' Rhythm" stands out as a highlight. The final six of the Gillespie-led studio recordings finds the sextet supplemented by the Paris Operatic String Orchestra (with arrangements by Michel Legrand), and are good as bop-meets-orchestration goes, though orchestral arrangements don't play to Gillespie's strengths. The eight final cuts on disc two represent pianist Wade Legge's sole session he did as a leader, with the rhythm section of bassist Lou Hackney and drummer Al Jones. Though not too similar in tone to the Gillespie-led numbers that dominate this compilation -- it's well-done if typical early-'50s bop, with the piano to the fore -- it does round out this extended snapshot of the music Gillespie and his band were creating in Paris during this month.
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LP
Birdland / Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Munich '59 (no longer a record store day release)
Expected 27th May - this is no longer a Record Store Day release so we're taking pre-orders now. 'Bebop' inovator and legendary jazz drummer Art Blakey's Munich '59 on vinyl LP with CD insert For the very first time this totally unreleased concert by one of the legends of Jazz mastered from original reels. Arthur "Art" Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an American Grammy Awardwinning jazz drummer and bandleader. Along with Kenny Clarke and Max Roach, he was one of the inventors of the modern bebop style of drumming. He is known as a powerful musician and a vital groover his brand of bluesy, funky hard bop was and continues to be profoundly influential on mainstream jazz. For more than 30 years his band, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, included many young musicians who went on to become prominent names in jazz. The band's legacy is thus not only known for the music it produced, but as a proving ground for several generations of jazz musicians. Blakey's groups are matched only by those of Miles Davis in this regard. Blakey was inducted into the Jazz Hall of Fame (in 1982), the Grammy Hall of Fame (in 2001), and was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.
Birdland
LP
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