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Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis - Live In Cuba (2015) {2CD Blue Engine Record BE0001}
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Jazz / Modern Big Band / Afro-Cuban Jazz / Neo-Bop / Trumpet

Recorded in 2010 over three nights during the Orchestra's week-long residency at the theater, Live in Cuba showcases the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis in concert at Havana's Teatro Mella. This is a dynamic two-disc collection that finds Marsalis and the JCLO celebrating the longstanding ties and creative synergy between American and Afro-Cuban jazz traditions.

"There’s the simple fact that the band members were old enough and experienced enough by now to be virtuosos on their instruments (what other group—rock or jazz or any other kind of music—could boast a trio of spectacularly singular talents such as Garcia, Lesh, and Weir?) but were still young enough to want to play and play and play some more, the happy, itchy inclination of youth. As a few of the shows in the Here Comes Sunshine boxed set attest, it wasn’t unusual for a 1973 concert to exceed four hours. And within the shows themselves, there are nearly nightly examples of hour-long orgies of tune-linked songcraft and juicy jamming.

Lionel Hampton & The Golden Men Of Jazz - Live at the Blue Note (1991) {Telarc CD-83308}
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© 1991 Telarc | CD-83308
Jazz / Mainstream Jazz / Swing / Vibes

For a 1991 gig at the Blue Note in New York, vibraphonist Lionel Hampton headed a nonet full of classic veterans that were termed "the Golden Men of Jazz": trumpeters Clark Terry and Harry "Sweets" Edison, tenors James Moody and Buddy Tate, trombonist Al Grey, pianist Hank Jones, bassist Milt Hinton and drummer Grady Tate. Even with its many loose moments, these great players came up with some notable moments, including James Moody's humorous vocalizing on "Moody's Mood for Love" and particularly fine playing by Terry and Grey; Tate and Edison do show their age a bit, but are welcome participants in what must have been an occasion for celebration.

DELIGHTFUL TRIPLE-DISC SET OF THE FINEST LIVE PERFORMANCES IN EXISTENCE Perhaps the most enduring, popular and skilled female singer and composer of the rock-age, Joni Mitchell s body of work across the forty years she has released music her last album was released in 2007, since when she has sadly suffered major health issues has no equal. In celebration of this extraordinary performer and composer s work, comes this delightful triple CD set which features some of her rarest and most sought after live broadcast recordings in existence.