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Kind of Blue

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by: Miles Davis

Release Date March 25, 1997
I'll keep this short and sweet,this is an all time jazz classic,hands down!!! This awesome reissue features incredible remastered sound,a treat to listen to!!! A must for any serious music collection!!! Recommended!!! Timeless!!! A+

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Ear Food

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by: The Roy Hargrove Quintet

Release Date July 29, 2008

I usually don't care for Hargrove's albums - but this one is amazing. A diamond. Well recorded and rehearsed. Everything is on time and on target.

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Ahmad Jamal at the Pershing: But Not for Me

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by: Ahmad Jamal

Release Date October 17, 1990
I was there when this was recorded. I was a senior in high school then, and I bought the record when it was released not knowing it had been recorded that night. I went through at least 2 LP's and love it to this day. Hope you enjoy it also.
Lee Mascarello

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Miles from India (TWO CD SET)

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by: Various Artists

Release Date April 15, 2008
I am usually ambivalent of this genre of music.Fusion albums can be either superb or very banal.For example compare this release with "Floating Point" the latest album by John Mclaughlin.I was utterly disapponted.It has absolutely no new ideas and is banal at it's best.Interestingly, both albums have a lot of musicians in common - Luiz Banks,Ranjit Barot, Shankar Mahadevan...

This album is a totally different cup of tea.It works and like how.Of course the premise to begin with, is brilliant.And then the musicians are on fire and you can actually feel that on every track.

All the songs on the album are superb, but if I have to pick a favourite it would be Jean-Pierre, the last track on the first CD.

Highly recommended. ... Read More:

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Getz/Gilberto

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by: Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto

Release Date May 20, 1997
Paying $3.99 for a jazz masterpiece that you don't own is a gift. Grab it!

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A Love Supreme

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by: John Coltrane

Release Date August 19, 2003
I have a small but highly acclaimed jazz collection. This is the jewel, my favorite, only tied by kind of blue in quality. An essential, not for jazz lovers, but rather music lovers.

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Somethin' Else

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by: Cannonball Adderley

Release Date March 09, 1999
Conventional wisdom holds that this is a Miles Davis album, and that is pretty much right - it's an album led by Miles Davis, under Cannonball Adderley's name, set up to showcase the altoist who had just joined Davis's band. You can hear plenty of fine playing by Cannonball, but it's in Davis's world - the earthiness of many later Cannonball recordings isn't present.

The similarities are particularly obvious on the classic interpretation of "Autumn Leaves" and the Davis original "Somethin' Else". "Love for Sale" was recorded under Davis's leadership 3 months later, with Cannonball present, and it's interesting to compare the two approaches. (I prefer the Davis version, but they are both superb.)

Some people go further and compare this album to Kind of Blue. ... Read More:

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The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961

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by: Bill Evans

Release Date September 13, 2005
Even though I had the two original Riverside LP's and two later CD's purporting to contain remastered essentials from the session, Amazon's price for the latest three-disc collection was too attractive to pass up. After listening to the three discs in sequence, I now question if I even heard what was on the previous recordings. This is at once stunning and immeasurably satisfying music, LaFaro and Evans "in the moment" as never before, their empathy, individual genius, and shared quest of discovery brought to vivid realization for the listener. Not until his final trio with bassist Marc Johnson would the pianist again approach such a level of artistry, but there would be no possibility of a return to the moment of incipient splendor. This may be the greatest value on Amazon, but there's ... Read More:

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Day Trip

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by: Pat Metheny Trio

Release Date January 29, 2008
Yes Pat is the best guitar player in the world,he is a great master,composer,arranger a GREAT Musician.I saw him live at the Puerto Rico Heineken Jazz fest this june'08 with the band,McBride on bass,and Sanchez on drums,the whole crowd were out of words after his performance.The best record No Doubt.

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Birth of the Cool

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by: Miles Davis

Release Date January 09, 2001
When you realize that these sides were cut in 1949, you can only but marvel at the both the sophistication of both the music and the sound. For those of you that might think that anything recorded almost 60 years ago must sound primitive, think again. This is modern music, timeless music, and will pay dividends on a good sound system. How many 58 year old recording can say that?

This is great stuff, period.