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JAMIL SHERIFF OCTET Backchat Jazz Services JSLCD 001 BRAD GOODE Nature Boy Delmark DE 5478
EVAN CHRISTOPHER Delta Bound Arbors Jazz ARCD 19325
DJANGO REINHARDT Belleville: Original Recordings 1940-1942 Naxos 8.120822 TOLVAN BIG BAND Code Red Prophone Records PCD091 ROBIN McKELLE Introducing Candid CCD 79996 GEOFF EALES Epicentre 33 Records 33JAZZ 162 NICKI PARROTT & ROSSANO SPORTIELLO People Will Say We're in Love Arbors Jazz ARCD 19335
ROYCE CAMPBELL, JOE KENNEDY, PAUL LANGOSCH Get Happy A Tribute to the life of Joe Kennedy Foxhaven Records FX-70022
JIMMY BLYTHE Messin' Around Blues Delmark DE 792 AL GREY Centerpiece Telarc Jazz CD 83379 BILL EVANS The Other Side of Something Intuition INT 3416 2 ROLAND KIRK Pre-Rahsaan Prestige 0888072240803 Vintage Dutch Swing College Band: Vol. 2 1950-52 rec.1950-52 LAKE LACD 251 [79:09] Humphrey Lyttelton and his Band – Classic "Live" Concerts rec. live, Conway Hall (1951, 1954) and Royal Festival Hall (1954) LAKE LACD253 [76:12 + 61:36]
JIM ROBINSON Economy Hall Breakdown Delmark DE 235 CURIOUS PARADISE Now! 33 Records 33JAZZ 164 ROY HAYNES The Island Explore EXP 0023 Mishka ADAMS SPACE Candid Records CCD 79847 STEFANO BATTAGLIA Re: Pasolini ECM 1716738 (1998/99) CHARLIE HADEN The Best of Quartet West Verve 530 210-7 THEJAZZ PLAYS CHRISTMAS Thejazz/Universal 5304877 PETER GRANT Traditional Universal/Globe Records 1730336 BEN WEBSTER Dig Ben! Storyville 108 8601 HERBIE HANCOCK Takin’ Off Blue Note 0946 3 92757 2 4 HERBIE HANCOCK River: The Joni Letters Verve 0602517448261 The New Friends of Rhythm – 1939-47 performances HEP CD 1086 RONNIE SCOTT Boppin’ With Scott Proper Records PROPERBOX 131 IKE QUEBEC Bossa Nova Soul Samba Blue Note 0946 3 92783 2 9
STAN TRACEY/BOBBY WELLINS Tracey/Wellins Play Monk Resteamed RSJ 104 Ken Colyer – Memories; a Jazz Club Session with Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen LAKE LACD256
Kid Ory’s Creole Jazz Band: Kid Ory; New Orleans Jazz Man LAKE LACD 255 PLAY YOUR OWN THING A Story of Jazz in Europe EuroArts 2055748 HARLEM ROOTS The Big Bands – Volume 1 Basie – Calloway – Millinder – Ellington Storyville Films DVD 26000 RICHARD GALLIANO QUARTET featuring GARY BURTON L’Hymne à l’Amour (If you love me) CAM Jazz PRM 7799-2 Byzantines Mr Exstein’s X-Ray Ears LAKE LACD 249 LES PAUL & Vocalists The Essential Collection Avid AVC 924 Fryer-Barnhart International All Star Jazz Band - If We Could Be With You LAKE LACD 252
JOHN SCOFIELD This Meets That Emarcy 0602517340855 JAY RODRIGUEZ featuring CHUCHO VALDES Live in Italy Explore EXP 0018 Funky Pieces of Silver: The Horace Silver Songbook HighNote HCD 7176
Elton Dean and The Wrong Object The Unbelievable Truth MONJUNE RECORDS MJR009 OREGON 1000 Kilometers CamJazz CAMJ 7803-2 Richard THOMPSON (b. 1949) Sweet Warrior PROPER RECORDS PRPCD032 BOB MINTZER & THE HORN MAN BAND Papa Lips Explore EXP 0020 ABBEY LINCOLN Straight Ahead Candid CCD 79015 MAX ROACH We Insist! Freedom Now Suite Candid CCD 79002 DIZZY GILLESPIE Live at the 1965 Monterey Jazz Festival MJF Records 0888072303379
PAT METHENY Secret Story Nonesuch 7559-79981-0 FREDDY COLE with the BILL CHARLAP TRIO Music Maestro Please HighNote HCD 7168 LUIS RUSSELL Saratoga Shout Living Era CDAJA 5658 MARIA SCHNEIDER ORCHESTRA Sky Blue ARTISTSHARE AS0065 [62:49]
BOMBA Entre Sol Y Luz BOMBA BM003 [47:51] KURT ELLING Nightmoves CONCORD JAZZ CD 30138 [55:39] The Swingin' Bassoon Daniel Smith (bassoon) GUILD ZZCD9824 Language of Emotion The Dan Forshaw Quartet SELF PRODUCED CD MAXINE SULLIVAN It’s Wonderful Proper Records PROPERBOX 130 Pollack plays Jazz Laurel ZUCKER The Yearling for flute and guitar Roberto SIERRA Cronica del Descubrimento Jack PERLA (b.1960) Pollock Plays Jazz Mike MOWER (b.1958) Suite for Flute and Guitar Laurel Zucker (flute); Mark Delpriora (guitar) rec. 2007, UUCB, Kensington, California. DDD CANTILENA 66036-2 [51:46] John Hallam and Jeff Barnhart Mr Fine And Dandy LAKE LACD 248 [72:12] George Melly Farewell Blues LAKE LACD 250 [56:02]
THAD JONES The Magnificent Blue Note 0946 3 92768 2 0 SONNY ROLLINS Sax Symbol Proper Records PROPERBOX 124 DUKE ELLINGTON Love You Madly Vol. 14: 1947-1953 Naxos Jazz Legends 8.120814 LIANE CARROLL Slow Down Splash Point SPR 004 CD RICHARD GALLIANO & TANGARIA QUARTET Live in Marciac 2006 Milan 399 143-2 SWINGLE SINGERS Beauty and the Beatbox Signum SIGCD 104 THE UNFORGETTABLE NHOP TRIO LIVE ACT 9464-2 NEW YORK VOICES A Day Like This MCG Jazz MCGJ 1031 Jack DeJOHNETTE and Bill FRIZELL The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers GOLDEN BEAMS PRODUCTIONS GBP-CD-1116 [61:37] DIANA KRALL The Very Best of Verve 0602517444478 Introducing Robin McKelle CANDID CCD 79996 Paquito D’Rivera & Chano Dominguez Quartier Latin OPUS ARTE OA6001D Solo in Mondsee Paul Bley piano Mondsee Variations I-X ECM 1709775 (1786)
Los Angeles Jazz Ensemble EXPECTATION CD + DVD Kind of Blue 10021 Richard THOMPSON (b.1949) Sweet Warrior [37:23] PROPER RECORDS PRPCD032 Dino Saluzzi Group Juan Condori 985 9237 (ECM 1978)
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COUNT BASIE Basie at Birdland Roulette Jazz 0946 3 97449 2 3 ETTA JONES/HOUSTON PERSON Don’t Misunderstand HighNote HCD 7173
BRUCE ADAMS/ALAN BARNES QUINTET Spontaneous Combustion Woodville WVCD 117
SARAH VAUGHAN The Essential Collection Avid AVC 915
EMPIRICAL Empirical Destin-E 777-001001001 CHARLY ANTOLINI Power Drummer Jazzclub by Universal 06025 1730452 ROBERTA GAMBARINI & HANK JONES You Are There Emarcy 0602517370678 PHIL WOODS QUINTET American Songbook II Kind of Blue KOB 10022 HENRI TEXIER STRADA SEXTET Water Alert Label Bleu LBLC 6698 ARTURO SANDOVAL Rumba Palace Telarc CD 83662 PAUL TOWNDROW Six by Six Keywork KWRCD 008
BILLY COBHAM & ASERE A Latin Soul Astar ASTARDVD 2 STAN KENTON Artistry in Rhythm Avid AMSC 912
PHIL BODNER Once More With Feeling! Arbors Jazz ARCD 19347 SOFT MACHINE LEGACY Soft Machine Legacy Moonjune MJR 008 MARK SOSKIN One Hopeful Day KIND OF BLUE 10019 Bobby Hutcherson For Sentimental Reasons Kind of Blue KOB 10020 HERBIE HANCOCK The Finest in Jazz Blue Note 0946 3 86120 2 5 Stanley Wilson Sings Cole Porter Chris Murphy Luminous KUFALA RECORDINGS THE BAD PLUS Prog EmArcy 0602517268326 HIROMI’S SONICBLOOM Time Control Telarc SACD 63655 THELONIOUS MONK plays Duke Ellington Riverside 0888072301283
DON BYAS Laura Universal 0602498420010 THE JAZZ O’MANIACS Sunset Café Stomp Delmark 1244 RAFFAELLO PARETI Maremma Egea SCA 119 LENA HORNE The Best of EMI 0946 3 97388 2 3 HARRY CONNICK Jr. Chanson du Vieux Carré Marsalis Music 0874946000628
THE RODRIGUEZ BROTHERS Conversations Savant SCD 2082 Starburst - Gene Krupa and His Big Band SOUNDS OF YESTER YEAR DSOY688 [59:47] THE GEORGIANS 1922-1923 Retrieval RTR 79003 JOHNNY HODGES The Jeep is Jumpin’ Living Era CD AJS 2021 MARTIAL SOLAL Newdecaband Exposition sans tableau Nocturne NTCD 401
Bucky & John Pizzarelli GENERATIONS Arbors Records ARCD 19345
Chris Barber 1956 LAKE LACD246 CLAIRE MARTIN He Never Mentioned Love Linn AKP 298 ROLAND KIRK with JACK McDUFF Kirk’s Work Prestige 0888072301610 JON-ERIK KELLSO Blue Roof Blues Arbors Jazz ARCD 19346 The Very Best of Mel Torme Warner 5144 21572 PAQUITO D’RIVERA & CHANO DOMINGUEZ Quartier Latin Opus Arte OA 6001 D RODITI / IGNATZEK / RASSINFOSSE Smile Nagel Heyer 2072 [68:22] MELISSA STOTT The Picture Feetfirst Records FFR5005 [68:44] Jay McShann – Hootie’s Blues; A Tribute LIVING ERA CD AJA 5667 [76:47] JOHAN BERKE: Upstairs Five The Cactus Suite Gason Jazz CD 731 [54:00]
A Tribute to Paul Whiteman by Keith Nichols’s Jazz Artists and the Northern Sinfonia LAKE LACD245 [65:42] Tony Bennett – Young Tony PROPERBOX 121 [4 CDs] Sporting House Piano LAKE LACD 247 [79:47] THE MODERN JAZZ TRIO The Key to it All… Diving Duck DDRCD 006 CHICK COREA & BELA FLECK The Enchantment Concord 088072302532
ANDY NARELL Tatoom Heads Up HUCD 3122 STEVE SMITH & VITAL INFORMATION Vitalization Hudson Music HD CD 101 SANTANA Hymns for Peace Eagle Vision EREDV 626 DAVE BRUBECK The Essential Collection Avid AVC 900 GIANLUIGI TROVESI/UMBERTO PETRIN/FULVIO MARAS Vaghissimo Ritratto ECM ECM 1983
KENNY DAVERN & KEN PEPLOWSKI Dialogues Arbors Jazz ARCD 19317 WAYNE ESCOFFERY Veneration Savant SCD 2081 MILT JACKSON Bags of Soul Properbox 126 JOE DANIELS JAZZ GROUP Dixie Band Stomp Living Era CD AJA 5652 JIMMIE LUNCEFORD Strictly Lunceford Proper PROPERBOX 125 STAN TRACEY Under Milk Wood ReSteamed RSJ 101 BUCKY PIZZARELLI 5 For Freddie Arbors Jazz ARCD 19344 JANE MONHEIT Surrender Concord 0888072300507 All The Way - Jimmy Scott RHINO 8122-77655-2 ELLA FITZGERALD Forever Ella Universal 9848373 ELLA FITZGERALD The Great American Songbook Avid AVC 906 ELLA FITZGERALD The Very Best of the Rodgers and Hart Song Book Verve 0602517052437 CHERYL BENTYNE The Book of Love Telarc CD 83652 JOEY DeFRANCESCO Live: The Authorized Bootleg Concord 0880072301238
ELDAR Live at The Blue Note Sony Classical 82876 74745-2 JIMMY McGRIFF & HANK CRAWFORD QUARTET Right Turn on Blue Telarc CD 83366 ETHNIC HERITAGE ENSEMBLE Hot 'n' Heavy Delmark DVD 1574 Rob SILVAN The Breathing of the World: Songs formed from the words of Sacred Poetry SKY HOOK MUSIC 2711 [45:54] JAZZ AT THE PAWNSHOP 30th. Anniversary The Complete 3 SACD Collection Bonus DVD9 (interview 2006) PROPRIUS PRSACD 7879
ACT:15 MAGIC YEARS 1992-2007 ACT 9470-2 Melissa Stott – Why Now FEET FIRST RECORDS FFR 5004 Melissa Stott – The Picture FEET FIRST RECORDS FFR 5005 Michael Wollny Piano Works: Hexentanz ACT 9756-2 BILL EVANS Conversations with Myself Verve 0602517036857 DUKE ELLINGTON Vol. 13 "JAM-A-DITTY" 1946-1947 Recordings NAXOS JAZZ 8.120813 KENNY CLARKE Klook's the Man Proper PROPERBOX 120 CURIOS Hidden Jazzizit Records JITCD0744 Rosemary Clooney The Reprise Years RHINO 8122748762 Larry Ham Carousel PRIVATE DISC NO CATALOGUE NUMBER Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen and Skiffle Group - 1956 LAKE LACB241 Ottilie Patterson with Chris Barber’s Jazz Band – That Patterson Girl LAKE LACD244 The Dutch Swing College Band - 1956 LAKE LACB243 The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet Rock My Soul LIVING ERA CD AJA 5650
ADA ROVATTI Airbop Sam Productions SAM 9003
Pasodoble Lars Danielsson - Leszek Mozdzer ACT Music ACT 9458-2 [55:27] CARSTON DAERR and DANIEL ERDMANN Berlin Calling ACT 9656-2 CAMERON PIERRE Pad Up (get ready) DESTIN-E RECORDS 777-03052005
Mildred Bailey – The Rockin’ Chair Lady rec. 1929-47 LIVING ERA CD AJS2020 PAT METHENY/BRAD MEHLDAU Metheny Mehldau Quartet Nonesuch 7559 79994 0
JAMES TAYLOR QUARTET 1987 BGP CDBGPD 184 JAMES TAYLOR’S 4TH DIMENSION Picking Up Where We Left Off Real Self RS5346 CANNONBALL ADDERLEY Riverside Profiles Riverside 0888072301726 Vintage Cy Laurie Recorded 1955-56 LAKE LACD 242 [70:22] Jessie Matthews – Over My Shoulder rec. 1927-42 LIVING ERA CD AJA 5663 Machito and his Afro-Cubans – Relax and Mambo LIVING ERA CD AJA 5602 ELDAR Live at the Blue Note Sony 82876 74745 2 DAVID "FATHEAD" NEWMAN Life HighNote HCD 7166
ROYCE CAMPBELL Trio by Starlight Philology W 357.2 Hello Baby! - The Rhythm Boys featuring Spats Langham WVR 1002 [72:05] Hot Stuff. The Three Pods Of Pepper (And a Couple of Hot Tamales). WVR 1003 Mildred Bailey – The Rockin’ Chair Lady LIVING ERA CD AJS2020
GANELIN TRIO PRIORITY Live at the Lithuanian National Philharmony, Vilnius 2005 Nemu NEMU 005 André Previn plays My Fair Lady and a dozen great standards LIVING ERA CD AJA 5656 ERIC WATSON TRIO Jaded Angels ACT 9452-2 [51:36] CORLISS DALE Fascinating Rhythms MAINSTEM MSTCD0040 [52:14]
TRIO ASKELADD GASON CD 729 [67:44] ALCYONA Around the Sun Audio-b ABCD 5018 [55:46] JOHANNA GRÜSSNER Lazy Afternoon Prophone PCD 087 [49:50]
Featuring Archie Semple; The Archie Semple Six – with special guests Nat Gonella and Beryl Bryden LAKE LACD240 [62:42]
Earl Hines – Deep Forest LE CHANT DU MONDE 2741465 [2CDs]
LEA DeLARIA The Very Best of Rhino 8122744872
RICHARD GALLIANO LUZ NEGRA Milan 399 078-2 DAVID REES-WILLIAMS TRIO Thinking Allowed DePaean DPNCD 003 TUBBY HAYES The little Giant PROPERBOX 117 OSCAR PETERSON Perfect Peterson Pablo 0888072300781 THE STORY OF BIG BANDS Le Chant du Monde 574 1481.90 SONNY ROLLINS Sonny, Please Doxy 060251 7086203 ALVIN ROY QUARTET Hedonism
Maynard
Ferguson Wow:
the Formative Years
ASV LIVING ERA AJA 5659 [TA] FLETCHER HENDERSON Sweet and Hot Le Chant du Monde 274 1463-1464 ANTONIO FORCIONE QUARTET In Concert Naim NAIMDVD 100
Christopher Dell THE WORLD WE KNOW Celebrating Bert Kaempfert With Ladi Geisler ACT 9449-2 LOUIS ARMSTRONG Vol.7 Stop Playing Those Blues 1946-47 NAXOS JAZZ LEGENDS 8.120817
Tony BENNETT (b. 1926) – While We’re Young Original recordings 1950-1955 NAXOS 8.120803 DARYL SHERMAN Guess Who’s in Town! Arbors Jazz ARCD 19341 LOUIS ARMSTRONG Nice and Philadelphia Concerts Smooch CD REAL 1R CHARLIE CHRISTIAN Blues in B Le Chant du Monde 274 1459 MILES DAVIS The Best of (The Warner Bros. Sessions, 1985-1991) Rhino 8122-74863-2 LOUIE BELLSON Live from New York Telarc CD 83334 Dangerous Liaison Brussels Jazz Orchestra Bert Joris Royal Flemish Philharmonic Daniele Callegari Talent DOM 2910 900SP KEITH JARRETT Tokyo Solo ECM DVD 987 3186 DUKE ELLINGTON Vol.12 Blue Abandon Radio Transcriptions & Concert Recordings 1946 NAXOS JAZZ LEGENDS 8.120812 BOB DeVOS Shifting Sands Savant SCD 2077 DAVE GLASSER Above the Clouds Arbors Jazz ARCD 19337 ACT Visions of Jazz ACT 9460-2 |