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Chick Corea - Five Trios (2007) {6CD Box Set, Stretch Records - Japanese-only Edition, UCCJ-9089~94}
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© 2007 Universal Japan/ Chick Corea Prod. / Stretch Records | UCCJ-9089~94
Jazz / Post Bop / Piano

Japanese-only six CD box set from the Jazz legend featuring five discs containing recordings from his famous trios (one trio per disc) plus a bonus CD. 'Dr. Joe' features bassist John Patitucci and drummer Antonio Sanchez (Pat Metheny). 'From Miles' (tribute to Miles Davis), recorded live in New York, 2006 and featuring Corea, bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Jack DeJohnette. 'Chillin' In Chelan' (tribute to Thelonious Monk) recorded live in Washington D.C. in 2005 features bassist Christian McBride and drummer, Jeff Ballard. 'The Boston Three Party', tribute to Bill Evans recorded at Boston's Berklee Performance Center on 4/28/06 and features Eddie Gomez (bass) and Airto Moreira(drums). All new studio recordings 'Brooklyn, Paris to Clearwater' featuring Chick Corea (keyboards), spectacular French bassist Hadrien Feraud (John McLaughlin) and drummer Richie Barshay. A five track bonus cd featuring 2 tracks from Corea/Gomez/ Moreira, 2 tracks from Corea/McBride/ Ballard and 1 track from Corea/Patitucci/Sanchez.

Miles Davis - Complete Live at the Blue Coronet 1969 (2010) {2CD Set Domino Records 891207}
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© 1969, 2010 Domino Records | 891207
Jazz / Post Bop / Fusion / Trumpet

2010 two CD set containing all surviving music from a never before heard performance by the 1969 Miles Davis Quintet, with Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette. It was taped at the Blue Coronet Club in New York in June of that year, before the group embarked on a European tour. Miles remembered this group in his autobiography as really a bad motherfucker. These recordings are welcome considering that this exact formation of the quintet never made a studio recording.

Pianist-composer Vijay Iyer follows his 2021 ECM disc Uneasy — the first to showcase his trio featuring bassist Linda May Han Oh and drummer Tyshawn Sorey — with Compassion, another album in league with these two gifted partners. The New York Times captured the special qualities of this group, pointing to the trio’s flair for playing “with a lithe range of motion and resplendent clarity… while stoking a kind of writhing internal tension. Crucial to that balance is their ability to connect with each other almost telepathically.”

Pianist-composer Vijay Iyer follows his 2021 ECM disc Uneasy — the first to showcase his trio featuring bassist Linda May Han Oh and drummer Tyshawn Sorey — with Compassion, another album in league with these two gifted partners. The New York Times captured the special qualities of this group, pointing to the trio’s flair for playing “with a lithe range of motion and resplendent clarity… while stoking a kind of writhing internal tension. Crucial to that balance is their ability to connect with each other almost telepathically.”

Pianist-composer Vijay Iyer follows his 2021 ECM disc Uneasy — the first to showcase his trio featuring bassist Linda May Han Oh and drummer Tyshawn Sorey — with Compassion, another album in league with these two gifted partners. The New York Times captured the special qualities of this group, pointing to the trio’s flair for playing “with a lithe range of motion and resplendent clarity… while stoking a kind of writhing internal tension. Crucial to that balance is their ability to connect with each other almost telepathically.”

In February the superb and in-demand jazz bass player Larry Grenadier released The Gleaners, a recording for solo acoustic bass on the renowned ECM label. It was riveting playing, getting into a variety of styles and methods. And perhaps something is in the air, as Soul of the Bass is a release by an equally important and enthralling bassist, playing (mostly) solo and showing listeners how an instrument usually in the role of accompaniment can take the lead, alone.

Michael Jefry Stevens - For The Children (1995) {Cadence Jazz Records ‎CJR1202 rel 2008}
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© 1995, 2008 Cadence Jazz Records ‎| CJR 1202
Jazz / Post Bop / Piano

During his long and fruitful career, pianist Michael Jefry Stevens has spanned the range of music from commercial rock and funk to mainstream jazz, and the modern creative improvised style. This recording was in the can for some 13 years before seeing the light of day. It showcases the quartet of Stevens while he was living in New York City, teamed with the mighty bassist Dominic Duval, drummer Jay Rosen, and ex-Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers tenor saxophonist David Schnitter. The music reflects on a certain hard- to post bop esthetic, ballads for old flames, and a solid metropolitan edge that neither boils over, nor secedes to any pressure, expectation or self-doubt. In many ways a robust session due to Schnitter's expressive playing, it also marks this rhythm section as a driving force that can also play tender and restrained, but no less potent jazz.

Philip Bailey, the legendary falsetto voice, Grammy Award winner and co-founder of Earth, Wind & Fire has announced his upcoming solo album, Love Will Find A Way, via Verve Records on 21 June. The album is trailed by first single ‘Billy Jack,’ which Bailey co-produced with Robert Glasper.