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In a three-year period, Stan Getz played with bands featuring either pianist Duke Jordan or a young Horace Silver. This is the boppin' Getz on tenor, playing standards fervently. There are two Gigi Gryce originals, the Getz original "Hershey Bar," and Silver's "Penny" among the 24 tracks. This is a decent introduction to the pre-bossa nova player the world would later know.

Al Haig - Al Haig Trio and Sextets (2000) {Period–Fantasy OJCCD-1929-2 rec 1949, 1954}
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Jazz / Bop / Piano

By 1949, when the first of these tracks was recorded, Al Haig had made it clear that he was a major jazz artist. He was a favorite colleague of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, and Stan Getz. He was in demand by dozens of other leading players as their accompanist of preference. Many of his peers considered him second only to Bud Powell among bebop pianists.

Al Haig - Al Haig Today! (1965) {Mint Records Japan Mini LP XQAM-1635 rel 2014}
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© 1965, 2014 Del Moral Records / Mint Records Japan | XQAM-1635 | DSD remaster
Jazz / Bop / Jazz Piano Trio

This difficult to find recording is worth the search; it contains some of the finest recorded work of Al Haig's enigmatic career. Haig was an important figure in the early development of bebop piano and can be heard as a sideman on many seminal recordings from the 1940s, including Salt Peanuts and Hot House. His refined classical technique was relatively unique at the time, and he was admired as a superb accompanist. Between the mid-'50s and the early 1970s there is a curiously large gap in his recorded output evidently due to personal problems. In fact, Al Haig Today! appears to be his only release as a leader during the '60s.

Al Haig - Al Haig Quartet (1954) {Period–Fresh Sound FSR-CD12 rel 1991}
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© 1954, 1991 Fresh Sound / Camarillo / Period | FSR-CD 12
Jazz / Bop / Piano

This particular album is by Al Haig the pianist Bird and Getz considered the perfect pianist and he was the one they loved the most to play with. And here you can understand why. The album is quite old, I mean it should be an early fifties record, unfortunately in my edition (1991 Fresh Sound) this information is not there. Allmusicguide says it's a 1954 album, and surely it could be correct. The sound is from the era. It is a quartet album and in the fifties it came out on the Period Label.

Al Haig & Jimmy Raney - Strings Attached (1975) {Absord Music Japan ABCJ-438 rel 2007}
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© 1975, 2007 Choice Records | Absord Music Japan | ABCJ-438
Jazz / Neo Bebop / Piano / Guitar

Pianist Al Haig, a veteran of the bebop era, plays pretty modern on this quartet date which is co-led by guitarist Jimmy Raney. With backing by bassist Jamil Nasser and drummer Frank Gant, Haig and Raney interpret two bop standards and such later material as Herbie Hancock's "Dolphin Dance" and Eddie Harris' "Freedom Jazz Dance." Haig and Raney inspire each other to stretch out, including on an 11-minute version of "'Round Midnight." Thought-provoking music well worth hearing several times.

Originally released in 1967, the compilation album Prezervation brings together tracks that jazz saxophonist Stan Getz recorded in 1949 and 1950. Backing Getz here is pianist Al Haig, who gets second billing, as well as guitarist/vocalist Jimmy Raney, bassist Tommy Potter, drummer Roy Haynes, and others. The album is a superb example of early West Coast jazz and a must-have collection for Getz aficionados.

When the great Charlie Parker picked a young white guy named Al Haig asthe pianist for his quintet in 1946, a lot of people were surprised Enigma album for sale. However, Haigwas one of the very first pianists to follow the trend started by Bud Powell, andhis technique, style and impeccable taste earned him the right to be in Parker'sgroup. In his last years (he died in 1982) he would make more than a dozen albums Enigma CD music.

Once in a while, an album comes along to take your breath away. That is certainly the case with this boxed set, which contains no fewer than 25 CDs tracing the history of jazz piano from early 1899 to the end of 1958. Several years ago, the same record company issued a set ten CDs covering some of the same ground, but this expanded version is even more amazing.

In this magnificent collection presented melodies performed by these masters of jazz piano: Scott Joplin, James P. Johnson, Eubie Blake, Mandy Randolph, Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, Joe Sullivan, Teddy Wilson, Count Basie, Oscar Peterson, Thelonious Monk, Nat King Cole and many, many others …