Keepnews Collection Complete Series

Clark Terry - Serenade To A Bus Seat (1957) {2007 Riverside} [Keepnews Collection Complete Series] (Item #13of27)
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©1957, 2007 Concord / Riverside | 0888072301894
Jazz / Bop / Trumpet

Remastered in 24-bit from the original master tapes. Part of our Keepnews Collection, which spotlights classic albums originally produced by the legendary and arguably the most respected of all jazz producers, Orrin Keepnews.

Sonny Rollins - The Sound Of Sonny (1957) {2007 Riverside} [Keepnews Collection Complete Series] (Item #10of27)
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© 1957, 2007 Concord / Riverside | RCD-30186
Jazz / Hard Bop / Saxophone

Remastered in 24-bit from the original master tapes. Part of our Keepnews Collection, which spotlights classic albums originally produced by the legendary and arguably the most respected of all jazz producers, Orrin Keepnews. A new phase in Sonny Rollins' career began in 1957. He started what was at the time an almost blasphemous trend of recording for a number of different labels. His pioneering spirit yielded a few genre-defining albums, including this disc. His performances were also at a peak during 1957 as Down Beat magazine proclaimed him the Critics' Poll winner under the category of "New Star" of the tenor saxophone.

The Cannonball Adderley Sextet - In New York (1962) {2008 Riverside} [Keepnews Collection Complete Series] (Item #18of27)
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© 1962, 2008 Concord / Riverside | 0888072305038
Jazz / Hard Bop / Soul Jazz / Saxophone

Orrin Keepnews' commentary (from his new liner notes): “Just a few weeks after Yusef [Lateef] was added, a booking at the Village Vanguard was used to bring about the recording that is reissued here. Considering how long the four original band members had been working together, it is quite amazing how quickly and how well the two newcomers fit in. The only real difference to be noted between this and previous Adderley band albums might be the absence of any newly written material by either of the Adderley brothers. But two of the half-dozen selections are by Lateef and one by Zawinul. The final number, one of Sam Jones’s rare writer credits, was for quite awhile the band’s standard way of closing each set in a club, but the decision here was to give it a rare full-length performance.”

Jimmy Heath - Really Big! (1960) {2007 Riverside} [Keepnews Collection Complete Series] (Item #9of27)
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© 1960, 2007 Concord / Riverside | RCD-30185
Jazz / Hard Bop / Saxophone

Remastered in 24-bit from the original master tapes. Part of our Keepnews Collection, which spotlights classic albums originally produced by the legendary Orrin Keepnews. Jimmy Heath has been at the forefront of modern jazz for almost 50 years. The middle brother of the illustrious Heaths, Jimmy (b. 1926) is a triple threat as saxophonist-composer-arranger. On this, his second Riverside date as a leader, Jimmy's ten-piece band was not, of course, really big—but his expert writing and arranging made the flexible ensemble sound bigger.

McCoy Tyner - Horizon (1979) {2007 Milestone} [Keepnews Collection Complete Series] (Item #15of27)
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© 1979, 2007 Concord / Milestone | 0888072302068
Jazz / Post Bop / Piano

Remastered in 24-bit from the original master tapes. Part of our Keepnews Collection, which spotlights classic albums originally produced by the legendary and arguably the most respected of all jazz producers, Orrin Keepnews. McCoy Tyner has fronted many mid-sized ensembles, but this one ranks with the very best he has led. As violinist John Blake jives and jousts with alto and soprano saxophonist Joe Ford and the incendiary tenor saxophonist George Adams, Tyner realizes a perfectly balanced, extroverted, compatible and utterly unique front line.

Flora Purim - Butterfly Dreams (1973) {2007 Milestone} [Keepnews Collection Complete Series] (Item #8of27)
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© 1973, 2007 Concord / Milestone | 0888072301849
Jazz / Latin Jazz / Fusion / Vocal Jazz

Remastered in 24-bit from the original master tapes. Part of our Keepnews Collection, which spotlights classic albums originally produced by the legendary Orrin Keepnews. The 1974 release of this album on the Fantasy group's Milestone label created an instant impact and launched one of the most exciting and tempestuous vocalists of the decade. Flora Purim and her husband, the brilliant percussionist Airto Moreira, had been part of Chick Corea's "Return to Forever" band, and Airto had gained much attention with Miles Davis, but this record combined their Brazilian rhythms for the first time with the "fusion" jazz of players like George Duke and Stanley Clarke. The result was a high-energy music of enormous appeal.

Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Himself (1957) {2008 Riverside} [Keepnews Collection Complete Series] (Item #24of27)
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© 1957, 2008 Concord / Riverside | 0888072305106
Jazz / Bop / Piano

Orrin Keepnews' commentary (from his new liner notes): "This, you might say, is an album of undiluted Monk. Like most generalizations, that wouldbe putting things a bit too simply, but the core of truth is there. For, with the deliberate exceptionof the final selection, this is literally Thelonious Himself—Monk, alone in the recording studio, offering highly personal versions of some standards and some of his own tunes.

Bill Evans Trio - Portrait In Jazz (1959) {2008 Riverside} [Keepnews Collection Complete Series] (Item #26of27)
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© 1959, 2008 Concord / Riverside | 0888072306783
Jazz / Post Bop / Modal Music / Piano

Orrin Keepnews' commentary (from his new liner notes): “This turned out to be the easiest Bill Evans record session I was ever involved in. The trio's initial working repertoire consisted entirely of material that he wanted to record but had not yet attempted; I probably would have preferred having more than two originals, having not yet fully realized that his ability to reconstruct and revitalize old and often over-familiar standards was one of his more important contributions to the jazz vocabulary.”

Blue Mitchell - Blue Soul (1959) {2008 Riverside} [Keepnews Collection Complete Series] (Item #22of27)
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© 1959, 2008 Concord / Riverside | 0888072305083
Jazz / Hard Bop / Trumpet

Orrin Keepnews' commentary (from the original liner notes): “This is Blue Mitchell's third album as a leader. The first two were very good and well worth the attention of the jazz-listening public. But this present album is something else. It represents so definite and striking a forward step…with this recording Blue would seem to have stepped over the invisible line: He is no longer merely 'promising,' he has arrived…The most significant 'new' factor in the sound and content of Mitchell's playing is something best described as confidence, or authority.”

Wes Montgomery - Full House (1962) {2007 Riverside} [Keepnews Collection Complete Series] (Item #2of27)
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© 1962, 2007 Concord / Riverside | 0888072301290
Jazz / Hard Bop / Guitar

Remastered in 24-bit from the original master tapes. Part of our Keepnews Collection, which spotlights classic albums originally produced by the legendary Orrin Keepnews. Keepnews was responsible for giving Montgomery his first recording deal, thanks to a tip from Cannonball Adderley. The guitarist made a number of albums for Riverside, but Full House tops them all.