Near Blue

Freddie Redd - Shades Of Redd (1960) + Redd's Blues (1961) {Blue Note}
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© 2008, 2002 Blue Note / Capitol / EMI | 50999 5 14375 2 7 / 7243 5 40537 2 6
Jazz / Hard Bop / Piano

In an all too small discography, Freddie Redd's Shades of Redd is without a doubt his crowning achievement. Completed after a successful stint composing music for the stage play The Connection, Redd wrote music specifically geared for his two formidable front line saxophonists – emerging alto giant Jackie McLean and the unsung hero of the tenor, Tina Brooks. Redd, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Louis Hayes, fresh out of the Detroit scene, took New York City by storm playing clubs and working with Redd when he was not doing production music.

Thelonious Monk - Paris 1969 (2013) {CD+DVD5 NTSC Blue Note B001882000}
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DVD5 -> 2.36 Gb | All Regions | NTSC 4:3 | Dolby AC3, 2 ch | ~ 68m | ISO Image
Subs: English, Portugues, Espanol, Italiano, Deutsch, Francaias
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© 1969, 2013 Blue Note / Laser Swing Pro. | B001882000
Jazz / Bop / Piano

A lost treasure from the legendary Thelonious Monk – a live date recorded in Paris at the end of the 60s – late in Monk's life, and every bit as wonderful as his famous 60s studio work with his quartet! Of that group, only Charlie Rouse remains on tenor sax – but Rouse is more than enough to make things great, and the interplay between his tenor and Monk's piano is completely sublime – full of angular movements, underscored with plenty of soul – and given support from Nate Hygelund on bass and either Paris Wright or Philly Joe Jones on drums. There's a rough edge to the music that's really great – that sharper, more sinister vibe that Monk could have in a live setting – and titles include "Light Blue", "Bright Mississippi", "I Mean You", "Ruby My Dear", "I Love You Sweetheart Of All My Dreams", "Crepuscule With Nellie", and "Nutty". Special package comes with a bonus DVD of the performance!

After suffering a brutal crime, Dwight drops out of society and ends up homeless. When the killer who ruined his life is released from jail, he plots revenge, but his mission of vengeance is complicated by the fact that his target has a family.

John Coltrane - Blue World (2019) {Impulse! ‎B0030157-02 rec 1964}
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© 1964, 2019 Impulse! ‎/ Verve / Universal | B0030157-02
Jazz / Post Bop / Modal Jazz / Tenor Saxophone

A year after the unprecedented release of the John Coltrane Quartet's Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album, fans get another gift from the vault. The backstory (detailed in the booklet) combined with the unique place it claims in his catalog (chronologically and aesthetically), make it a fascinating, historically significant addition to his discography. In 1964, between the recently completed Crescent, and six months before the start of the sessions for A Love Supreme, the John Coltrane Quartet cut the music on Blue World.