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Trumpeter Jim Rotondi is a solid post-bop musician with a warm tone and an improvisational approach deeply steeped in the tradition of great jazz trumpeters. While the Butte, Montana native began piano lessons with his mother at age eight, it was the trumpet that became his main instrument from age 12 on. After graduating high school in 1980, Rotondi enrolled in the highly regarded jazz studies program at North Texas State University. In 1984, he earned first place in the International Trumpet Guild's jazz trumpet competition.

BMG celebrates what would have been Jim Croce’s 80th birthday and marks 50 years since his untimely passing with The Definitive Croce, a collection of his unparalleled run of studio albums released in 1972 and 1973 — available as a limited 3LP (180 gram black vinyl) or 3CD set.Disc 1 is the 1972 studio album You Don’t Mess Around with Jim. The album reached #1 and is certified Gold, and features the #1 single “Time In A Bottle,” plus the hits “You Don’t Mess Around With Jim” and “Operator (That’s Not The Way It Feels.”) Disc 2 is the 1973 studio album Life and Times. The album reached the Top 10 and is certified Gold, and features the Gold #1 single “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown,” plus the hit “One Less Set Of Footsteps. Disc 3 is the final Jim Croce studio album I Got A Name, released in 1973. The album reached #2 and is certified Gold, and features the Top 10 Hits “I’ll Have To Say I Love You In A Song,” and “I Got A Name” plus the Top .

Audio Fidelity peers into the history of the saxophone with this charming release from the great Jim Merchant. Jim Merchant and His Sax of Gold features some of the great standard from the American Songbook, performed with style and attitude.

The intimate musical get together that occurred in June 1969 was due to a large extent to the close friendship between the inimitable American guitarist Jim Hall and Producer Joachim Ernst Berendt. As Hall was visiting him in Berlin, Berendt proposed a recording with bassist Jim Woode and drummer Daniel Humair; this configuration developed into an intensely introspective session.

After releasing no new music for almost a decade, singer-songwriter Jim Bob has announced his second album in a year. It’s another silver-tongued snapshot of modern life in Britain from the singer-songwriter, musician and author.

Jim Hall: Live! Vol. 2-4 is an unprecedented live album release from an utter legend of jazz guitar. This box set features previously unreleased recordings from Jim Hall's trio performances at Bourbon Street in Toronto, Canada circa 1975. The recordings provide an incredible additional 3 hours of music from the original Jim Hall: Live! (Horizon/1975) release. Featuring Don Thompson on bass and Terry Clarke on drums, the album was released as part of Jim's latest Fan- Funded ArtistShare Project. These previously unreleased recordings are an absolutely essential addition to this guitar giant's already extensive catalog of classic live recordings. Jim Hall's fans will be absolutely delighted by this previously unheard music.

Bassist Jim Ferguson does something on Deep Summer Music and his 1999 debut, Not Just Another Pretty Bass, that few on his instrument can muster. And it's so simple, so dynamic. He sings. Well, he not only sings, but he offers up a pliable voice that can wrap around a lyric like a hug (try the lovely title tune here), and then morph into a playful, sardonic, jab-rich vehicle that shows off how much style he has. A most important follow-up to Ferguson's auspicious debut.

By titling his eighth Criss Cross album Over Here!, trumpeter Jim Rotondi picks up on the sentiments he signified with The Move, his seventh for the label. “It doesn’t necessarily mean moving somewhere else, but rather returning home, playing tunes with a lot of straight-ahead swing and interesting chord sequences with guys I’m comfortable with,” Rotondi stated in the liner notes I wrote for that kinetic 2009 recital.