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Bill Evans Trio - Sunday At The Village Vanguard (1961) {2008 Riverside} [Keepnews Collection Complete Series] (Item #23of27)
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© 1961, 2008 Concord / Riverside | 0888072305090
Jazz / Post Bop / Modal Music / Piano

Conventional wisdom, which in this case may be right, holds that Bill Evans' storied career peaked on June 25, 1961, a date that yielded two live records, Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby, the final two documents of Evans' first, and best, trio, with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian. In the two years he'd been playing with Evans, LaFaro had opened up new possibilities for the jazz bass, playing with a harmonically oblique, melodically flexible style that was, at the time, unprecedented. Ten days after this record was made he died, just 25 years old.

Kenny Dorham - Jazz Contrasts (1957) {2007 Riverside} [Keepnews Collection Complete Series] (Item #5of27)
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© 1957, 2007 Concord / Riverside | RCD-30132-2
Jazz / Hard Bop / Trumpet

Remastered in 24-bit from the original master tapes. Part of our Keepnews Collection, which spotlights classic albums originally produced by the legendary Orrin Keepnews. Dorham’s lyrical trumpeting on ballads and uptempo tunes is showcased on his Riverside debut that also features tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, pianist Hank Jones, bassist Oscar Pettiford and drummer Max Roach. Keepnews says, “This is one of my favorite ‘blowing’ albums, ever.”

Flora Purim - Butterfly Dreams (1973) {2007 Milestone} [Keepnews Collection Complete Series] (Item #8of27)
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© 1973, 2007 Concord / Milestone | 0888072301849
Jazz / Latin Jazz / Fusion / Vocal Jazz

Remastered in 24-bit from the original master tapes. Part of our Keepnews Collection, which spotlights classic albums originally produced by the legendary Orrin Keepnews. The 1974 release of this album on the Fantasy group's Milestone label created an instant impact and launched one of the most exciting and tempestuous vocalists of the decade. Flora Purim and her husband, the brilliant percussionist Airto Moreira, had been part of Chick Corea's "Return to Forever" band, and Airto had gained much attention with Miles Davis, but this record combined their Brazilian rhythms for the first time with the "fusion" jazz of players like George Duke and Stanley Clarke. The result was a high-energy music of enormous appeal.

Blue Mitchell - Blue Soul (1959) {2008 Riverside} [Keepnews Collection Complete Series] (Item #22of27)
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© 1959, 2008 Concord / Riverside | 0888072305083
Jazz / Hard Bop / Trumpet

Orrin Keepnews' commentary (from the original liner notes): “This is Blue Mitchell's third album as a leader. The first two were very good and well worth the attention of the jazz-listening public. But this present album is something else. It represents so definite and striking a forward step…with this recording Blue would seem to have stepped over the invisible line: He is no longer merely 'promising,' he has arrived…The most significant 'new' factor in the sound and content of Mitchell's playing is something best described as confidence, or authority.”

McCoy Tyner - Fly With The Wind (1976) {2008 Milestone} [Keepnews Collection Complete Series] (Item #25of27)
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© 1976, 2008 Concord / Milestone | 0888072305137
Jazz / Post Bop / Piano

Orrin’s commentary (from his new liner notes): “Although I had been very much impressed by his work with [John Coltrane], listening to [McCoy Tyner] in New York clubs in the years that followed made me aware of how remarkably he was developing. He was, and still remains, one of the most powerful pianists I have ever heard; many years ago having learned to merge that strength with a very personal form of lyricism—an unusual, unique combination. To me, it is this linking of power and beauty—in both the writing and the playing here—that distinguishes Fly With the Wind and makes it possibly my personal favorite among the 17 albums that I worked on with this extraordinary artist during our eight years together at Milestone.”

Sonny Rollins - Freedom Suite (1958) {2008 Riverside} [Keepnews Collection Complete Series] (Item #21of27)
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© 1958, 2008 Concord / Riverside | 0888072305076
Jazz / Bop / Hard Bop / Saxophone

Orrin’s commentary (from his original liner notes): “Because Sonny Rollins is as passionate, talented, multifaceted and variable as this album (and many others over his many years of activity) would lead you to believe, I am glad to be able to say that this remarkable artist remains one of the greatest and most creative of all tenor saxophone players and improvisers, and that he also happens to remain a valued friend.”

Bill Evans - Everybody Digs Bill Evans (1958) {2007 Riverside} [Keepnews Collection Complete Series] (Item #6of27)
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© 1958, 2007 Concord / Riverside | 0888072301825
Jazz / Post Bop / Modal Music / Cool / Piano

Remastered in 24-bit from the original master tapes. Part of our Keepnews Collection, which spotlights classic albums originally produced by the legendary Orrin Keepnews. The legend of Bill Evans really begins with this album, his second. The pianist had just spent most of 1958 as part of one of the major units in jazz history: the Miles Davis Sextet that also featured John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley.

Jimmy Heath - Really Big! (1960) {2007 Riverside} [Keepnews Collection Complete Series] (Item #9of27)
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© 1960, 2007 Concord / Riverside | RCD-30185
Jazz / Hard Bop / Saxophone

Remastered in 24-bit from the original master tapes. Part of our Keepnews Collection, which spotlights classic albums originally produced by the legendary Orrin Keepnews. Jimmy Heath has been at the forefront of modern jazz for almost 50 years. The middle brother of the illustrious Heaths, Jimmy (b. 1926) is a triple threat as saxophonist-composer-arranger. On this, his second Riverside date as a leader, Jimmy's ten-piece band was not, of course, really big—but his expert writing and arranging made the flexible ensemble sound bigger.

Wes Montgomery - Full House (1962) {2007 Riverside} [Keepnews Collection Complete Series] (Item #2of27)
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© 1962, 2007 Concord / Riverside | 0888072301290
Jazz / Hard Bop / Guitar

Remastered in 24-bit from the original master tapes. Part of our Keepnews Collection, which spotlights classic albums originally produced by the legendary Orrin Keepnews. Keepnews was responsible for giving Montgomery his first recording deal, thanks to a tip from Cannonball Adderley. The guitarist made a number of albums for Riverside, but Full House tops them all.

Bill Evans Trio - Portrait In Jazz (1959) {2008 Riverside} [Keepnews Collection Complete Series] (Item #26of27)
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© 1959, 2008 Concord / Riverside | 0888072306783
Jazz / Post Bop / Modal Music / Piano

Orrin Keepnews' commentary (from his new liner notes): “This turned out to be the easiest Bill Evans record session I was ever involved in. The trio's initial working repertoire consisted entirely of material that he wanted to record but had not yet attempted; I probably would have preferred having more than two originals, having not yet fully realized that his ability to reconstruct and revitalize old and often over-familiar standards was one of his more important contributions to the jazz vocabulary.”