Live The Thelonious Monk Quartet

Live performance from the Joshua Redman Quartet, recorded at Tokyo's Blue Note in 1998.
Every few years it seems as if the jazz media go out of their way to hype one young artist, overpraising him to such an extent that it is easy to tear him down when the next season arrives. In the early '90s, Joshua Redman briefly became a media darling, but in his case, he largely deserved the attention.

Sonny Rollins & Don Cherry - The Complete 1963 Copenhagen Concert (2009) {2CD Set, Jazz Lips JL767}
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© 1963, 2009 Jazz Lips | JL767
Jazz / Hard Bop / Saxophone / Trumpet

The complete, long-unavailable 1963 Copenhagen concert by the Sonny Rollins - Don Cherry piano-less quartet. Among its many highlights are amazing medleys of standard tunes and an extended version of Thelonious Monk's “52nd Street Theme”. As a bonus, the complete Rollins performance from a 1966 Graz concert in trio format with Jymie Merritt on bass and Max Roach on drums. “Love Walked In” and “Poinciana”, from that set, appear on CD here for the first time ever.

The resulting 2 box set, unlike any other available today, groups together the main vocalists in the story of jazz from the first half of the 20th century. Each of these 20 CDs offers in more or less the same proportion, the purest of African-American song with gospel and blues singers, from truculent Ma Rainey to majestic Bessie Smith, sophisticated Sarah Vaughan to popular Louis Prima, the folk-related tones of Charlie Patton to the honeyed voice of Frank Sinatra.

Joe Lovano - Quartets: Live At The Village Vanguard (1995) {2CD Set Blue Note CDP 7243 8 29125 2 1 rec 1994-95}
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© 1995 Blue Note / Capitol | CDP 7243 8 29125 2 1
Jazz / Post Bop / Saxophone

Named Jazz Album of the Year by readers of Downbeat Magazine, this double CD features tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano during two appearances at the Village Vanguard recorded ten months apart. Other than the leader, the pair of quartets are completely different and they bring out two sides of Lovano. The earlier session features the leader in a stimulating piano-less quartet, matching wits and creativity with flügelhornist Tom Harrell. While the music is closer to Ornette Coleman than to Gerry Mulligan (to name two famous pianoless groups), Harrell's tone more closely resembles Chuck Mangione than Don Cherry although fortunately he is much more inventive.