Kula Shaker Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts (1999, Columbia # Col 493142 2)

Teddy Wilson - The Complete Piano Solos 1934-1941 (1991) {2CD Set Columbia COL 467690 2}
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© 1934-41, 1991 Columbia / Sony Music | COL 467690 2
Jazz / Swing / Piano

Wilson was born in Austin, Texas, on November 24, 1912. He studied piano and violin at Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama. After working in the Lawrence "Speed" Webb band, with Louis Armstrong, and also understudying Earl Hines in Hines's Grand Terrace Cafe Orchestra, Wilson joined Benny Carter's Chocolate Dandies in 1933. In 1935, he joined the Benny Goodman Trio (which consisted of Goodman, Wilson and drummer Gene Krupa, later expanded to the Benny Goodman Quartet with the addition of Lionel Hampton).

Duke Ellington and The Buck Clayton All-Stars - At Newport (1956) {Columbia ‎COL 477320 2}
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© 1956 Columbia / Sony Music | ‎COL 477320 2
Jazz / Big Band / Mainstream Jazz / Swing

I do not have the musical skills to do a real review of Jazz. I just like to listen to it. If your musical interests are like mine this is a great choice.It has great rhythm sections and traditional swing jazz to make it appealing to most listeners whether they are well schooled in music or just enjoy the arrangements as Ellington presents them. I recommend this album for anyone to add to a collection.

Branford Marsalis Trio - The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1991) {Columbia COL 468896 2}
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© 1991 Columbia / Sony Music | COL 468896 2
Jazz / Post Bop / Neo-Bop / Saxophone

This set is one of Branford Marsalis' strongest of the 1990s. Marsalis really stretches out on eight numbers including six of his originals (the other two songs are by bassist Bob Hurst). There is one guest appearance apiece from brother-trumpeter Wynton and tenor saxophonist Courtney Pine but otherwise Branford is accompanied only by Hurst and drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts. His playing is often reminiscent in style (but not really sound) of John Coltrane, he is more concise and disciplined than in some of his early-'90s concert appearances and Marsalis is at his most explorative on this inventive blowing session.

Jimmy Rowles & Michael Moore - Profile: The Music Of Henri Renaud (1981) {Columbia COL 474556 2 rel 1993}
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© 1981, 1993 Columbia / Sony Music | COL 474556 2
Jazz / Piano / Bass

Henri Renaud was a Parisian jazz pianist in the 1940s and '50s who never lost his French touch. Outgoing, charming and a delightful composer, he was a natural point person for American musicians on tour in Paris in need of local sidemen, venues and recording opportunities. In addition to recording in the early 1950s in Paris with Bobby Jaspar, the Belgian saxophonist and flutist, Renaud recorded with Sandy Mosse, Nat Peck, Lee Konitz, Gigi Gryce, Tony Ortega, Art Farmer, Clifford Brown and many others American jazz greats. In early 1954, Renaud was in New York briefly to record with American jazz musicians for the French Swing label, a subsidiary of France's Vogue Records. For the balance of the 1950s, Renaud recorded steadily as the leader of a trio or small orchestra, writing a wide range of beautifully composed songs rich in melody and mood. In 1964, he began a long second career as head of CBS France. Renaud died in 2002.

By reviving the swirling, guitar-heavy sounds of late-'60s psychedelia and infusing it with George Harrison's Indian mysticism and spirituality, Kula Shaker became one of the most popular British bands of the immediate post-Brit-pop era. More musically adept and experimental than Cast, Kula Shaker nevertheless worked the same vaguely spiritual lyrical territory, but musically they brought the overpowering rush of Oasis to psychedelia, a genre that the Mancunians had previously avoided.