Great Jazz Standards

This album recorded in 1984 is a tribute to one of the great Jazz pianists, Thelonious Monk.
Hank Jones has been known to be a quintessential sideman and occasional leader during his lengthy career as a premier jazz pianist. His most frequent project has been as the ostensible leader of the co-op group known as the Great Jazz Trio, a classic example of how the piano-bass-drums format has remained timeless, enduring, and ever challenging. Formed in the spring of 1975, the initial threesome performed together for the first time at the Village Vanguard nightclub in New York City for one week, was given its name by owner Max Gordon, and consisted of Jones, drummer Tony Williams, and bassist Ron Carter…

The name of the group might be immodest, but the combination of pianist Hank Jones, bassist Buster Williams and drummer Tony Williams lives up to its billing. Originally cut for the Japanese East Wind label and last available domestically as an Inner City LP, this swinging but unsurprising session features boppish interpretations of six jazz standards including "Love for Sale," "Secret Love," and "Autumn Leaves."

Hidehiko Matsumoto - The Session: Sleepy Meets The Great Jazz Trio (1980) {Universal Japan SHM-CD UCCJ-4101 rel 2009}
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© 1980, 2009 Next Wave /Universal Japan } UCCJ-4101
Jazz / Post Bop / Cool / Saxophone / Jazz Piano Trio

Hidehiko "Sleepy" Matsumoto (October 12, 1926, Okayama - February 29, 2000, Tokyo) was a Japanese jazz saxophonist and bandleader. Matsumoto played bebop in Japan in the late 1940s with the group CB Nine, then joined The Six Josés and The Big Four, a group which included George Kawaguchi, Hachidai Nakamura, and Mitsuru Ono. In 1959 he became a member of Hideo Shiraki's small ensemble, and played with Gerald Wilson at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival and Toshiko Akiyoshi in 1964. Starting in 1964 he led his own ensembles, which have included as sidemen Takeshi Inomata, Akira Miyazawa, George Otsuka, and Isao Suzuki.

Duke Ellington was the most important composer in the history of jazz as well as being a bandleader who held his large group together continuously for almost 50 years. The two aspects of his career were related; Ellington used his band as a musical laboratory for his new compositions and shaped his writing specifically to showcase the talents of his bandmembers, many of whom remained with him for long periods. Ellington also wrote film scores and stage musicals, and several of his instrumental works were adapted into songs that became standards. In addition to touring year in and year out, he recorded extensively, resulting in a gigantic body of work that was still being assessed after his death.

For use with all B-flat, E-flat, Bass Clef and C instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included audio, these first-of-a-kind packages help you master improvisation while playing some of the greatest tunes of all time. …

Menuhin and Grappelli - Play "Jealousy" and Other Great Standards (1988) {EMI Records CDM7692202 rec 1973-1983}
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© 1973-83, 1988 EMI Records | CDM 7 69220 2
Jazz / Continental Jazz / Standards / Violins

For the title track of 'Jealousy' alone, this album is worth getting. The bringing together of such incredible playing is a rare thing indeed, but you simply have to hear the complimenting of both players of the violin to each other to believe it. Some tracks are left to a singular approach and yet when they play together…Yehudi Menuhin and Stephane Grappelli managed to achieve a beauty and grace that causes this album and others to be a worthy and truly classic album to have. It's jolly in parts but not too jolly and it's graceful but without being too graceful. Well worth getting if you admire either the violin or either of these two musical geniuses.