Pianists Chick Corea and Stefano Bollani can both play a lot of notes fast and have occasional tendencies to grandstand. But if they’re all over each other in the early stages of this Italian concert, later we hear the mutual understanding and assured rhythmic their time together since 2009 has nurtured. A prancing, marching stride-piano feel follows rhapsodic, gradually intensifying Jobim explorations early on. Fats Waller’s Jitterbug Waltz juggles time-patterns, trills, stabs and swing. Bollani’s A Valsa da Paula is quite abstract, and Tirititran develops from handclapping and drumming on the piano through tinkling, stop-start free improv to relaxed traditional grooving that recalls old-time pianists such as Erroll Garner.

Japanese Master Sound Jazz Series reissue featuring DSD remastering & the original artwork in a limited edition miniature LP sleeve.

BadBadNotGood is a Canadian instrumental music group from Toronto. The group was founded by bassist Chester Hansen, keyboardist Matthew Tavares, and drummer Alexander Sowinski in 2010. In 2016, they were joined by saxophonist Leland Whitty, a frequent collaborator.

Part of the 'Masters Of Jazz: The History Series 1949-1969'. 20 bit digitally remastered.

Coming October 7th, Day Breaks is Norah's sixth solo album and a kindred spirit to her breakout debut Come Away With Me. It finds her returning to the piano and her roots.The album features Blue Note luminaries including saxophonist Wayne Shorter, organist Dr. Lonnie Smith, and drummer Brian Blade on a 12-song set that presents 9 new originals alongside covers of songs by Horace Silver, Duke Ellington and Neil Young.

GoGo Penguin the instrumental trio from Manchester, England consisting of Chris Illingworth (piano), Rob Turner (drums) and Nick Blacka (bass have fielded plaudits and rave reviews for inspiration and originality at every turn since 2013. Now back with their self-titled album out on May 1st, which signifies their conviction that they've struck upon the motherlode, hit the jackpot, stepped up and generally arrived at a point they've always striven for but never quite attained before.

The Freedom Rider is an album by jazz drummer Art Blakey and his group the Jazz Messengers. Continuing Blakey's distinct brand of hard bop, this album features contributions from Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, Blakey himself, and Kenny Dorham, a former Jazz Messenger. This was the final album by this particular edition of the Jazz Messengers, who had been together for 18 months, as Lee Morgan left after this album to be replaced by a young Freddie Hubbard. The compositions themselves are varied, with Blakey contributing an energetic drum solo on "The Freedom Rider"; at least three of the compositions on the album are blues pieces. "El Toro" features a solo by Shorter incorporating the sheets of sound technique pioneered by John Coltrane.

Color de Trópico is a carefully-compiled work of healing and reconstruction, documenting a special moment in the history of Venezuelan music, when the country’s democracy was just a few years old and the profound impact of the oil industry on society had only just begun. DJ El Palmas and El Dragón Criollo have chosen eight impossibly hard-to-find jewels, originally released between 1966 and 1978, reissued here for the first time on vinyl.
In this period, Venezuelan musicians assimilated a wide range of influences and styles, both local and global, to generate something new, a “modern” identity for Venezuelan music; artists who set their eyes on the future without giving up the search for their own sabor (flavour). This is how jazz, rock, salsa, funk, psych, prog and disco, sat next to guajira, cumbia, cha-cha-cha and even the hugely-popular Venezuelan style of joropo. It started a long tradition of Venezuelan musical pioneers, many of whom are still to get the recognition they deserve.
Seconds after the needle drops on the vinyl, “El Despertar” (“The Awakening”) kicks off things with a goodbye for it was the last single Los Darts released before their dissolution in 1974. In the 60s they became the youthful face of pop, however, “El Despertar”... more
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released November 20, 2020
Compiled by El Drágon Criollo & El Palmas
Artwork by Georgina Maldera
Mastering and cut at The Carvery Studio
Picture taken in Caracas, Venezuela in 1966.
El Palmas Music

Charlie Byrd, guitar
Hendrik Muerkens, harmonica
Ken Peplowski, clarinet
Allen Farnham, piano
Bill Douglass, bass
Chuck Redd, drums
Michael Spiro, percussion

原田 依幸（はらだ よりゆき）　Piano
松風 鉱一（まつかぜ こういち）　Sax、Flute

Koichi Matsukaze - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute
Hiroshi Hatsuyama - vibraphone
Hideaki Mochizuki - bass
Takeo Moriyama - drums

Paris Match (パリス・マッチ, Parisu Matchi) is a Japanese musical group formed in 1998 by composer/arranger Yosuke Sugiyama and lyricist Tai Furusawa with vocalist Mari Mizuno. They debuted in 2000 with the album volume one. The group's name is an homage to the British musical group The Style Council, whose album Café Bleu features a song titled "The Paris Match".

The notes for this CD ask, "What issue is more topical than the Brazilian rain forest? So what reissue would be more topical than Walter Wanderley's Rain Forest?" Politically, this may be true, but musically, this collection is anything but topical. From the first tune -- the monster hit "Summer Samba," the listener is catapulted straight back to the '60s when bossa nova was new in the U.S. and everyone wanted a piece of it. Organist Wanderley made a big splash with this CD, which went platinum in two years -- and it does evoke strong water images, like "poolside" and "ice skating rink." The jazzmen are underutilized, since most of the tracks are less than three minutes long and leave little room to stretch out. One exception is the pretty Ferreira/Marconiballad "Rain," the only track where Wanderley plays piano rather than organ and which features a fine solo by Urbie Greenon trombone. On "Beach Samba," Greengets to noodle a bit, but Bucky Pizarelliis heard stating the melody and nothing else. Despite all the sadness implied in the song titles, this CD has a jaunty feel to it and will be best enjoyed by nostalgic fans of that bygone era.

Recorded live in concert at the Misty jazz club, Tokyo, on December 25, 1974.
Comes in mini LP replica with OBI & 8 page booklet in Japanese.Blu-Spec CD