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James Brown - Pure Dynamite! (1964) {Universal Music Japan Mini LP UICY-9284 rel 2003}
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© 1964, 2003 Polydor / Universal Music Japan | UICY-9284 | Cardboard Sleeve | 24bit remastering
Funk / R'n'B / Soul / Funky Jam

Limited to 5000 copies. Paper sleeve. PURE DYNAMITE! LIVE AT THE ROYAL was released in 1964 as KING K-883 with a gatefold cover that included photos and a biography. It reached #10 on the Billboard album charts. When Polydor reissued it they kept the "883" code number. In England it was released on the Stateside label. Most of the album was recorded live except for "Oh Baby Don't You Weep," which was originally a two-part single, here it's the whole take with overdubbed applause. All of the material performed here charted except for "I'm Tired But I'm Clean" a comedy routine featuring Bobby Bennett. The original release info and chart positions follow the song titles. The sound quality is what you expect for a live recording by a regional label in 1963, but it's not bad if you crank it up.

Avid Jazz presents four classic Charlie Byrd albums including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD. “Jazz Recital”; “Blues For Night People”; “Byrd’s Word” and “The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd”.
You might say Charlie Byrd was on a mission on his first album as a solo artist “Jazz Recital”, recorded in Hackensack, New Jersey in February 1957. A passionate believer in the guitar as an affective lead instrument in jazz, five of the ten cuts here are solo guitar pieces. With a background in classical guitar technique and having studied in Italy with the guitar maestro Segovia, Byrd lays out his ambition in the original liner notes “I’d like to see the guitarists of today using more of the vast store of knowledge…

Yuko Mabuchi Trio - Live (2017) {Chandos Official Digital Download}
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© 2017 Chandos / Yarlung Record
Jazz / Contemporary Jazz / PIano Trio

Yuko Mabuchi, piano; Del Atkins, bass; and Bobby Breton, drums; performed for a full house at the Brain and Creativity Institute’s intimate Cammilleri Hall on March 31st, 2017. Yarlung recorded this classic performance in this intimate jewel of a concert hall. Yuko, Del and Bobby performed as a cohesive unit, and subsequent concert bookings will no doubt spread their music around the world.

Pepper Adams - 10 to 4 at the 5-Spot (1958) {Riverside OJCCD-031-2 rel 1993}
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© 1958, 1993 Riverside Records / Fantasy | OJCCD-031-2
Jazz / Hard Bop / Saxophone

In 1958, Pepper Adams and Donald Byrd were pivotal members of a sextet led by Chicago tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin. They also formed their own quintet with fellow Detroiters Doug Watkins and Elvin Jones, and the then-rising star Bobby Timmons as the fifth wheel. This album, one of the first club dates recorded for the Riverside label, may have presented logistic problems with the acoustics, mic placements, and reel to reel tape technology, but there were no such issues with the extraordinary music contained on this effort. A tight, in tune and exciting ensemble, Adams and Byrd laid it all out for this single 39-minute set of modern jazz at the Five Spot Café in New York City. The symmetry between the witty and raw baritone sax of Adams and Byrd's stirring and sometimes strained trumpet is the stuff of legends, and the hallmark of the bop to hard bop era.