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John Lewis - Sensitive Scenery (1976) {2014 Japan Jazz Collection 1000 Columbia-RCA Series SICP 4051}
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© 1976, 2014 Columbia / Sony Music Japan | SICP 4051
Jazz / Bop / Cool / Third Stream / Piano

Reissue with the latest 2014 remastering. Comes with liner notes. Available as CD for the first time in the world. Overlooked solo work from John Lewis – a lesser-known, Japanese-only session that features the pianist in a relaxed trio setting! The mode here is as spacious as some of Lewis' more contemplative records – still very much wrapped up in that careful sense of tone and timing – but the overall feel is maybe more personal and spontaneous, as John takes the lead in the company of Connie Kay on drums and Michael Moore on bass. There's a nicely mature feel to the music – but mature in a way that gets past some of Lewis' too-serious modes of a decade or two previous – and titles include "Lela", "Sacha's March", "Visitor From Mars", "Natural Affection", and "Monday In Milan".

Miles Davis & John Coltrane - The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6 (2018) {4CD Set Columbia 88985448392 rec 1960}
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© 1960, 2018 Columbia / Legacy / Sony Music | 8898544839
Jazz / Hard Bop / Bop / Cool / Modal Music / Trumpet / Saxophone

More than 50 years after Miles Davis and John Coltrane embarked on one last tour of Europe together, fans can finally own this crucial piece of history on The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6, available everywhere today. This 4CD set features, for the first time in an authorized release, five breathtaking performances recorded in Paris, Stockholm and Copenhagen on the Jazz At The Philharmonic European Tour of spring 1960.

Collins is never far in spirit from the 1940s and 1950s gin mills of his youth, where he soaked up blues, R&B, country and western, jazz, and all their various amalgams. On this 1983 date he impressively revitalizes his old Texas hit "Don't Lose Your Cool," turns the heat up on Guitar Slim's "Quicksand," and adds newfangled vocal and guitar insinuations to Big Walter Price's "Get to Gettin'."

Dizzy Gillespie etc. - Battle of the Horns, Aurex Jazz Festival '80 (1984) {East World Japan Black Triangle, CP35-5012, Early Press}
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© 1980, 1984 East World / Toshiba EMI Japan | CP35-5012
Jazz / Post Bebop / Cool / Hard Bop

This edition of the Aurex Jazz Festival series comes from a group of concerts recorded in Japan during September 1980, featuring Dizzy Gillespie, a trio of tenor saxophonists (Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Harold Land, and Illinois Jacquet), and an outstanding rhythm section consisting of Cedar Walton, Eddie Gomez, and Shelly Manne, with the addition of vibraphonist Cal Tjader on some tracks. The album title Battle of the Horns is somewhat misleading, as this isn't a Jazz at the Philharmonic-type concert with the four horns trading licks, but mostly individual highlights spotlighting one artist at a time.

This series of live discs mark the first recordings of what became the regular working quintet of the criminally underrated saxophonist, composer and bandleader Billy Harper. With bassist Louie Spears the new addition to the line-up, three distinct concerts were recorded on Harper's spring, 1991 tour of the Far East and released separately without any duplication of material. Volume One comes from Pusan, Korea on April 27 and while the sound isn't the best – the bass and drums are muted and lack crispness – the extremely high quality of the music and interaction between the players more than compensates.

Giuseppe Verdi: Aida – Renata Tebaldi; Carlo Bergonzi; Giulietta Simionato; Cornell MacNeil;
Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde; Wiener Philharmoniker; Herbert von Karajan
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Publisher: DECCA

This Aida recording will come to be regarded as a landmark in the art of capturing grand opera on disc. Gramophone
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Forty-eight years have elapsed, and sopranos (Callas, Price, Caballé), tenors (Corelli, Domingo, Pavarotti), and conductors (Levine, Mehta, Muti) have come and gone, but this set still manages to be among the best Aidas ever recorded. classicstoday.com

Stan Getz - East Of The Sun: The West Coast Sessions 1955-1957 (1996) {3CD Set Verve 314 531 935-2}
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© 1955-57, 1996 Verve / PolyGram | 314 531 935-2
Jazz / Cool / Bop / West Coast Jazz / Saxophone

The mainstream came to know this remarkable tenor sax player via bossa nova – his unforgettable, breathy solo on "The Girl from Ipanema" propelled the song to number five in 1964 and to continued popularity to this very day, every bit as much as Astrud Gilberto's equally stunning, spare voice. But Stan Getz's involvement in this populist '60s craze actually displeased many a serious jazz enthusiast who'd admired his work in that field for more than two decades. After all, this 17-time winner of the Down Beat poll for top tenor saxophonist had already staked out a remarkable reputation, playing in the bands of such vaunted names as Stan Kenton, Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, and Woody Herman from 1944-1949, and then leading his own bands thereafter. This three-CD box, then, finds Getz in top form as a jazz soloist and bandleader.