Reissue with the latest remastering. Features original cover artwork. Comes with a descripton in Japanese. Lionel Hampton was the first jazz vibraphonist and was one of the jazz giants beginning in the mid-'30s. He has achieved the difficult feat of being musically open-minded (even recording "Giant Steps") without changing his basic swing style.
When Will The Blues Leave is the title of a new album which was recorded live last summer during lockdown, without an audience, at the BIMHUIS. Drummer John Engels, double bassist Joris Teepe and saxophonist Benjamin Herman will now play with the same fresh interaction before an audience. On the occasion of the release on DOX Records, the first cd will be handed to a special guest.
On the occasion of Charlie Parker's 100th birthday in 2020, “Bird Lives” opens, produces and records a new, orchestral view of his music. Played by one of the best big bands in Europe, arranged by Magnus Lindgren and John Beasley and with a squad of top-class guests, some of whom have received Grammy Awards, such as Joe Lovano, Chris Potter, Miguel Zenon, Tia Fuller and many more.
A magnificent documentary on a fabled time and place in American musical history, an "open city" with a wild and woolly nightlife of booze, gambling and prostitution, supported by the mayor who took his city and said "to hell with prohibition, let's party." This musical documentary chronicles the Kansas City blues and jazz scene, and includes interviews and archival footage of many of the greats, notably, the big-band sound of Count Basie and his Orchestra, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and his Quintet, and Ernie Williams, who called himself "the Last of the Blue Devils."
The best of the classics of Grand Mix Radio Nova 10 and 142 CD titles. This box highlights the 10 volumes of the collection Nova Classics, started at the same time as the NovaTunes. We have tried to recreate the essence of 30 years of radio programming, more than 30 years during which we refused formatting, by seeking other essential music, incomparable, unlikely.