Fats Domino Live at Tipitina's

Curley Bridges, the piano pounding R&B pioneer who helped spread the good word on Rock 'n' Roll with his atomic powered pre - Elvis version of "Hound Dog" way back in 1954, celebrates his 75th birthday by throwing a Blues Party at the legendary Silver Do.Recording information: The Silver Dollar Room, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (01/17/2009).

Here is a mismatch if there ever was one - or so it would appear. The always-elegant, always-spacious and graceful Marian McPartland, queen of the NPR program Piano Jazz, playing live with bluesed-out bebop reveler Willie Pickens in a live setting. But that's as far as contradictions go. This pair knows how to put together a program of piano duets and stress their differences rather than their similarities. It is as simple as sitting down Earl Hines and Fats Waller at the keys and telling them to go for it, that's how different these styles are. But somehow it works, and works so well that the listener will be stunned to know this was a one-off…

Playing at Maybeck Recital Hall before a small but attentive crowd seems to bring out the best in many pianists. Stanley Cowell performs a well-planned program of 14 selections on this 1990 CD. On a two-minute "Softly as in a Morning Sunrise," Cowell runs through all twelve keys. He pays tribute to the stride-piano tradition on "Stompin' at the Savoy," explores some bop, Latin-jazz (a transformed "Autumn Leaves") and post bop music, plays "Jitterbug Waltz" in the style of Art Tatum, inteprets "Stella by Starlight" in 5/4 time and performs J.J. Johnson's "Lament" with just his left hand. A very interesting recital. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

This CD contains two never before released concerts by the Dave Brubeck Quartet with Paul Desmond. The opening show features the group playing in Antibes in 1967 in one of its last recorded concerts before it disbanded in December of that same year. The bonus set is unique, as it presents the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s only existing recordings with Bobby Hackett and Benny Goodman. It includes an outstanding quartet version (with Hackett) of “Poor Butterfly,” a tune Brubeck never recorded again, as well as Desmond’s only existing reading of “On the Sunny Side of the Street”. All Tracks Previously Unissued and 3 Bonus Tracks.

In jazz, live recordings not only document an artist or group's sound in its purest form but, in rare cases, herald the arrival of a musical genre. That's the case with this invaluable, two-CD collection that captures clarinetist Benny Goodman's historic 1938 Carnegie Hall concert, which exemplified the so-called "swing era." Originally released in 1950, it contains rare commentary from Goodman and music from the entire event, which was a unique mix of formality and spontaneity. Goodman's perfect intonation and lyrical improvisation front the big band here, featuring the smooth solos of trumpeter Harry James, the percussive power of Gene Krupa - jumping the blues on "Don't Be That Way" - and the Fletcher Henderson - arranged "Sometimes I'm Happy" and "One O'Clock Jump"…

The Time Jumpers - Jumpin' Time: Live at Station Inn (2006) {2CD Crosswind TTJ-2}
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Country Swing / Western Swing Revival / Old-Timey

Although western swing is a genre that will hopefully never die, it's rare that a new band comes along anymore that breathes as much new life into it as the Time Jumpers do. Not since the emergence of Asleep at the Wheel in the early '70s, in fact, has a group provided as much hope for the continuing vitality of this venerable all-American institution. Well, sort of new, that is: the band, whose membership has shifted considerably but settles in at 11 here, has been at it since 1998. Their weekly gigs at Nashville's Station Inn are legendary around Music City, and it's easy to see why: the Time Jumpers don't attempt to reinvent the wheel here, so to speak; instead, they get to the core of the music, brush off the dust, and remind us why it's been so universally loved for so long.