al Haig Jerome Kern

Kenny Drew - The Complete Jerome Kern / Rodgers & Hart Songbooks (1957) {2008 Lone Hill Jazz Remaster}
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© 2008 Lone Hill Jazz | LHJ10343
Jazz / Hard Bop / Piano

This release compiles Kenny Drew’s complete Riverside 1957 duo & trio albums performing the LP songbooks of legendary composers Jerome Kern and Rodgers & Hart: “The Jerome Kern Songbook - I Love Jerome Kern” and “Pal Joey - Jazz Impressions of the Rodgers And Hart”. The former LP has never previously been released on CD. Full details inside in the 12-page comprehensive booklet.

Al Haig - Al Haig Today! (1965) {Mint Records Japan Mini LP XQAM-1635 rel 2014}
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© 1965, 2014 Del Moral Records / Mint Records Japan | XQAM-1635 | DSD remaster
Jazz / Bop / Jazz Piano Trio

This difficult to find recording is worth the search; it contains some of the finest recorded work of Al Haig's enigmatic career. Haig was an important figure in the early development of bebop piano and can be heard as a sideman on many seminal recordings from the 1940s, including Salt Peanuts and Hot House. His refined classical technique was relatively unique at the time, and he was admired as a superb accompanist. Between the mid-'50s and the early 1970s there is a curiously large gap in his recorded output evidently due to personal problems. In fact, Al Haig Today! appears to be his only release as a leader during the '60s.