Jazz Dancer

The beginning of the 80s was a time of change: modal jazz, free jazz and electric jazz had become antiquated, followed by a period of looking back, which has been lasting up to these days; music and musicians reflected the tradition without loosing contact to the present and the future.
Some young Americans settled down in the Frankfurt area who were willing to support and promote that development. The young vocalist Rachel Gould was a sensation with her powerful, voluminous, but very flexible alto voice; Ella Fitzgerald was her idol with her scat and the supple ability for modulation. Besides that the sidemen Dennis Luxion (piano), Clarence Becton (drums) and Rudi Schroeder (bass) were convincing; "The Dancer" became a first rate debut-CD for the reed player Wilson de Oliveira, who had come up from Montevideo after, producing some Virgo recordings…

One of Shorter's best-selling albums from the 1970s was Native Dancer, a Brazilian-oriented jazz-fusion masterpiece that boasts Herbie Hancock on acoustic piano and electric keyboards, and employs such Brazilian talent as singer Milton Nascimento (a superstar in Brazil) and percussionist Airto Moreira. Everything on this melodic, consistently lyrical effort is a jewel.

Art Blakey - The Complete Blue Note Recordings Of Art Blakey's 1960 Jazz Messengers (1992) {6CD Mosaic MD6-141}
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© 1960-61, 1992 Blue Note / Mosaic | MD6-141
Jazz / Hard Bop

Drummer Art Blakey led many great editions of the Jazz Messengers from the inaugural mid-'50s sessions until his death in the '90s. While arguments rage regarding which was his best, there is no doubt that the 1960-1961 unit figures in the debate. This wonderful six-disc set, notated with care and painstaking detail by Bob Blumenthal, covers studio and live sessions from March 6, 1960, to May 27, 1961, with the same personnel on all but two songs. Producer Michael Cuscuna used only first issue dates, and while he included some alternate takes, he did not litter the discs with second-rate vault material. They smoothly detail the band's evolution, cohesion, and maturation. This set, as with all Mosaic boxes, goes beyond essential. Get it post haste.