Cro Magnon

"Nous ne connaissons qu'une petite partie de l'arbre évolutif des hommes et des grands singes africains. Des pans entiers continuent à nous échapper et beaucoup reste à découvrir. Mais ce que nous commençons à percevoir bouleverse toutes les conceptions classiques de l'homme et de sa place dans l'histoire de la vie. Notre évolution n'est pas singulière, mais mosaïque, plurielle, buissonnante. …

Herbie Nichols - The Complete Blue Note Recordings (1987) {3CD Set Mosaic Limited Numbered Edition MD3-118 rec 1955-1956}
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© 1955-56, 1987 Blue Note / Mosaic Records | MD3-118
Jazz / Bop / Hard Bop / Piano / Jazz Piano Trio

Award Winning Mosaic Records beautiful Herbie Nichols box set. 3 CDs of great music from this underrated pianist/composer. Killer piano jazz, and some of the greatest modernist work ever recorded by Blue Note! Herbie Nichols deserves every bit of the rare fame he ever got – and it's only the paucity of his recordings that has kept him from achieving the status of Monk or Cecil Taylor as an avant garde forefather. This killer box set features all of Nichols' recordings for Blue Note – including loads of unissued and alternate tracks.

Herbie Nichols - Complete Studio Master Takes (2005) {2CD Set, Lone Hill Jazz LHJ10188 rec 1952-1957}
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© 1952-1957, 2005 Blue Note / Bethlehem / Lone Hill Jazz | LHJ10188
Jazz / Bop / Piano

Some of the most exciting piano jazz ever recorded – featured here on all of the Blue Note and Bethlehem recordings by the Herbie Nichols Trio! Nichols' heavy handed style is amazing throughout, and the record explodes with energy unheard of on other trio sessions from the time! The first 2/3 of the CD feature material from Nichols' Prophetic Herbie Nichols 10" albums on Blue Note – recorded in 1955, and featuring either Max Roach or Art Blakey backing Herbie up – on titles that include "Chit Chatting", "The Gig", "Terpsichore", "Spinning Song", "Mine", "House Party Starting", "Hangover Triangle", and "Query".