Jazz Cafee: August 2022

Esbjörn Svensson Trio discography 1993-2012 [FLAC]

Esbjörn Svensson Trio (or e.s.t.) was a Swedish jazz piano trio formed in 1993 consisting of Esbjörn Svensson (piano), Dan Berglund (double bass), and Magnus Öström (drums). Its music has classical, rock, pop, and techno elements. It lists classical composer Béla Bartók and rock band Radiohead as influences. Its style involves conventional jazz and the use of electronic effects and multitrack recording.

The trio deliberately blurred genres, with Svensson's musical catholicism drawing on a wide variety of artist influences. e.s.t. was also renowned for its vibrant style in live performances, often playing in rock and roll oriented venues to young crowds. It achieved great commercial success and critical acclaim throughout Europe. Its 1999 release From Gagarin's Point of View started its international breakthrough, being the first e.s.t. album to be released outside of Scandinavia through the German label ACT.

Svensson died in a scuba diving accident in Stockholm on 14 June 2008. He is survived by his wife and two sons. The publication All About Jazz remarked that the loss "will surely deeply sadden music lovers everywhere."

Since 2013 Magnus Öström and Dan Berglund are touring with the project e.s.t. symphony with Swedish arrangeur and conductor Hans Ek, performing symphonic versions of the e.s.t. songs.

(1993) Esbjorn Svensson Trio - When Everyone Has Gone

(1995) Esbjorn Swensson Trio - E.S.T. Live (2001)

(1996) Esjborn Svensson Trio - Plays Monk (1998)

(1997) Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Winter in Venice

(1999) Esbjorn Svensson Trio - From Gagarin's Point Of View

(2000) Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Good Morning Susie Soho

(2001) Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Somewhere Else Before

(2002) Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Strange Place for Snow (FLAC)

(2003) Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Seven days Of Falling

(2005) Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Viaticum & Live in Berlin

(2005) Esbj”rn Svensson Trio - Viaticum

(2006) Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Tuesday Wonderland

(2007) Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Live In Hamburg

(2008) Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Leucocyte

(2009) Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Retrospective - The very best of e.s.t

(2012) Esbjorn Svensson Trio - 301

Ahmad Jamal - The Classic 1958-1962 Recordings [5 CD, 2013/FLAC]

The 2013 four-disc Ahmad Jamal anthology The Classic 1958-1962 Recordings brings together all of the albums made by Jamal and his trio at the height of their initial success. This includes his seminal 1958 live album, Ahmad Jamal at the Pershing: But Not for Me. Also included are such albums as Happy Moods, Ahmad Jamal's Alhambra, All of You, Ahmad Jamal at the Blackhawk, Portfolio of Ahmad Jamal, and others. For fans looking for a consolidated overview of the influential pianist's early years, The Classic 1958-1962 Recordings is a superb option.

It’s one thing hearing about “rare tapes circulating among private collectors” but it’s another thing getting to hear them. Now you can; this is a hugely valuable release, a window into the working life of one of the greatest bands in the history of jazz performing at probably the most famous platform of all during the Golden Era of Jazz (1950s to the late 1960s), the Newport Jazz Festival (plus two bonus tracks taken from a broadcast in Finland on 1 November 1967). The liner notes say “This release contains all of the surviving music from the Miles Davis Quintet’s Newport sets of 1966 and 1967,” and were taken from live broadcasts of the event, complete with Willis Connover announcements, which adds to the atmosphere of the occassion. With the exception of Miles In Berlin and the Plugged Nickel sets, live documentation of this band is thin on the ground, given its (relative) longevity.

Miles Davis, trumpet
Wayne Shorter, tenor sax
Herbie Hancock, piano
Ron Carter, bass
Tony Williams, drums

1. Introduction Into Gingerbread Boy

2. All Blues

3. Stella By Starlight [Incomplete]

4. Gingerbread Boy

5. Footprints

6. 'Round Midnight [Incomplete]

7. Introduction Into Footprints

8. 'Round Midnight [Incomplete]

Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Complete Columbia Albums Collection (5 CD, 2012/FLAC)

The Complete Columbia Albums Collection is a box set by Mahavishnu Orchestra. It came out in 2012 and it contains remastered versions of all the albums by the first incarnation of the band, including The Lost Trident Sessions which was to be the band's third studio album, recorded in 1973 but only released in 1999. Additionally, the first album The Inner Mounting Flame contains a bonus track, the live album Between Nothingness & Eternity was remixed and expanded, and the box includes a previously unreleased live CD called Unreleased Tracks from Between Nothingness & Eternity.

CD1 - The Inner Mounting Flame

CD2 - Birds Of Fire

CD3 - The Lost Trident Sessions

CD4 - Between Nothingness & Eternity

CD5 - Unreleased Tracks From Between Nothingness & Eternity

Mysteries: The Impulse Years 1975-1976 is a four CD collection of the Keith Jarrett albums Mysteries, Shades, Byablue and Bop-Be. The set was released in 1996 by Universal Music Group. Previously unreleased alternate takes are present on each disc.

The music was performed by Jarrett and his affectionately-titled 'American Quartet', composed of Charlie Haden, Paul Motian, and Dewey Redman. Guilherme Franco contributed additional percussion to Mysteries and Shades.

Keith's killer quartet (with Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian) did their most powerful work for the Impulse label, and this 5-CD set presents it in its complete and digitally enhanced form for the first time ever! Nine of the 29 tracks have never been released, and three are classic tracks in their complete, unedited form for the first time. It's Keith Jarrett in his prime!

Sarah Lois Vaughan (March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer, described by Jazz commentator/music critic Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century."

Nicknamed "Sailor" (for her salty speech), "Sassy" and "The Divine One", Sarah Vaughan was a Grammy Award winner. The National Endowment for the Arts bestowed upon her its "highest honor in jazz", the NEA Jazz Masters Award, in 1989.

That’s What Happened 1982-1985: Bootleg Volume 7 is the next installment in the celebrated, award-winning archival series that began in 2011, shining an in-depth light onto different eras of the legendary career of Miles Davis.

In the 1980s, popular music had moved to a smoother, electronic-based sound that traded the steam of previous years for subdued arrangements meant to elicit peace and deep reflection. Miles Davis embraced this era, pulling inspiration from FM radio and an upstart music video channel called MTV. He was searching for the next frontier, letting his creativity roam. This music on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 captures that exploration, and finds Miles beginning to re-emerge in a creative landscape far different than the one he left in 1975. He’s touched every inch of pop culture while keeping true to his iconoclastic vision of jazz as amorphous art that’s supposed to bend and flow and mutate to something else. On That’s What Happened, we get to play in the rubble of what would become yet another period of unprecedented innovation. Beauty resides in evolution. The set collects nearly 4 hours of unreleased music including 2 CDs of studio material from 1982 to 1985 plus another CD containing a complete, blistering show of one of Miles’ last amazing bands captured live at the Festival International De Jazz De Montreal in July 1983. Side men include a multi-generational who’s who of jazz talent from JJ Johnson, John McLaughlin, Al Foster and John Scofield to Mike Stern, Marcus Miller, Daryl Jones and Vince Wilburn.

Recorded live on 23 November 1962 at the Cafe Montmartre, Copenhagen, Denmark

Cecil Taylor piano
Arthur Murray drums
Jimmy Lyons alto saxophone

1-1 Trance 8:55

1-2 Call 8:44

1-3 Lena 6:39

1-4 Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come (1st Variation) 9:10

1-5 What's New 12:10

1-6 Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come (2nd Variation) 8:00

2-1 Lena (Alternate Take) 14:22

2-2 D Trad That's What 21:26

2-3 Call (Alternate Take) 6:37

2-4 Untitled Sample 20:05

Miles Davis - On The Crest Of The Airwaves [4 CD, 2011/FLAC]

4 x CD in book/DVD-style tall packaging.

Containing 3 rare and previously unreleased concerts from San Francisco 1970, England 1970 and Melbourne Australia 1988. These concerts highlight the genius that was Miles Davies and are also an important piece of jazz history. All discs have been digitally remastered for superior sound quality .The iconic artwork and in dept sleeve notes make this a must have release for all true jazz fans

Miles Davis (tp);
Gary Bartz (ss, as);
Chick Corea (el-p);
Keith Jarrett (org);
Dave Holland (b, el-b);
Jack DeJohnette (d);
Airto Moreira (perc);
Michael Henderson (el-b);
Jumma Santos [Jim Riley] (perc);
Robert Irving III, Adam Holzman (synth);
Joe "Foley" McCreary (lead-b);
Benny Rietveld (el-b);
Ricky Wellman (d);
Marilyn Mazur (perc)

CD 1 - Live At The Berkshire Music Center Tanglewood (18.8.1970)

1.Directions
2.Bitches Brew
3.It's All About That Time
4.Sanctuary
5.Spanish Key/The Theme
6.Miles Runs The Voodoo Down

CD 2 - Live At The Fillmore West, San Francisco, (15.10.1970)

1.Honky Tonk
2.What I Say
3.Sanctuary
4.Yesternow
5.Bitches Brew
6.Funky Tonk/The Theme

CD 3 - Live At The Concert Hall, Melbourne, (2.5.1988)

1.In A Silent Way - Intruder
2.New Blues (Star People)
3.Perfect Way
4.The Senate - You And Me
5.Human Nature
6.Wrinkle
7.Tutu
8.Movie Star
9.Splatch

CD 4 - Live At The Concert Hall , Melbourne (Cont)

1.Time After Time
2.Heavy Metal
3.Don't Stop Me Now
4.Carnival Time
5.Tomaas
6.Burn
7.Portia

Dexter Gordon - The Complete Columbia Albums Collection (7 CD, 2011/FLAC)

Dexter would be very happy to know that his Columbia recordings have been reissued by Sony Legacy / PopMarket. This box set represents a very important period in Dexter Gordon’s career, and an important stage in jazz history. Dexter’s return from Europe after 14 years residing there helped rekindle a new level of enthusiasm in the jazz world, a wave of excitement that many other musicians benefited from. Dexter also won a number of Downbeat Critics and Readers Poll Awards during this period, and two Grammy nominations for Homecoming and Sophisticated Giant, respectively. These recordings on Columbia, signed off on by then-President Bruce Lundvall, also facilitated a reunion of sorts between many musicians who might not have otherwise ever recorded together or been featured collectively within the same release, the likes of which included: Tony Williams, Slide Hampton, Frank Wess, Stan Getz, Hubert Laws, Jimmy Heath, Eddie Gladden, Billy Brooks, Ronnie Matthews, Stafford James, Louis Hayes, Art Blakey, and others.

Fontessa is a 1956 album by the Modern Jazz Quartet released on Atlantic Records. It was the first of their albums released on Atlantic

John Lewis – piano
Milt Jackson – vibraphone
Percy Heath – double bass
Connie Kay – drums

A1 Versailles (Porte De Versailles)

A2 Angel Eyes

A3 Fontessa

B1 Over The Rainbow

B2 Bluesology

B3 Willow Weep For Me

B4 Woodyn You

Johnny Hodges - The Complete Verve Johnny Hodges Small Group Sessions 1956-1961 [6 CD, 2000/FLAC]

Johnny Hodges was Duke Ellington's most important soloist, so when the alto saxophonist returned to his former employer in the fall of 1955 after leading his own band for just over four and a half years, he had Ellington's approval to record under his own name for Verve on a steady basis. This limited-edition box set collects all of Hodges' small-group sessions recorded for Verve between 1956 and 1961 (excepting some selections whose masters were lost), often with a number of sidemen on loan from Ellington. The leader's chops are best exhibited in the ballads and blues features, though his originals merit attention, too. Hodges hardly hogs the spotlight; he obviously takes his share of solos but generously features his guests and associates from the Ellington band. A nonet with Clark Terry, Ray Nance, Quentin Jackson, Jimmy Hamilton, Harry Carney, Billy Strayhorn, Jimmy Woode, and Sam Woodyard is easily the best all-around session within this compilation, with many fine tracks. The humorous "Just Squeeze Me," with Nance's hip vocals complemented by Terry's talkative horn in the background, as well as a surprising extended workout of "Take the 'A' Train," with Terry taking over the famous solo spotlight that Nance first recorded in 1941 (heard on flügelhorn) and followed by Nance on his swinging violin, are among its highlights. Some of the other veterans appearing in this collection include Roy Eldridge, Vic Dickenson, Ben Webster, and Herb Ellis. The atmosphere of each session is friendly and swinging, with the feeling that each take came together quickly, whether or not that was actually the case. While Johnny Hodges' recordings as a leader from this period never rivaled Duke Ellington's in either sales or critical acclaim, they proved to be consistently enjoyable and able to stand the test of time. The set includes 30 previously unissued tracks. The detailed liner notes and discography, along with the numerous photos, also help to make The Complete Verve Johnny Hodges Small Group Sessions 1956-1961 an essential purchase for swing fans, though it is a limited edition of just 7,500, so it is guaranteed to soar in value.

The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records is a four-disc set, compiled and annotated by author Ashley Kahn who wrote the book of the same name being published concurrently with its release. Impulse's great run was between 1961 and 1976 -- a period of 15 years that ushered in more changes in jazz than at any other point in the music's history. Impulse began recording in the last weeks of 1960, with Ray Charles, Kai Windig /J.J. Johnson, and Gil Evans. While Impulse experimented with 45s 33 1/3 EPs, cassettes, and reel to reel tapes later in its existence, it was--and this set focuses on-- it was the music on its LPs (with distinct orange and black packaging in gatefold sleeves containing copious notes) that helped to set them apart. Impulse was dedicated to ushering in the new and controversial, but also sought to showcase established artists from the tradition (maintaining the jazz lineage) who continued to work and develop. While the label is certainly associated more closely with John Coltrane than any other of its artists (Coltrane also acted as an ad hoc A&R man), it nonetheless established and forwarded the careers of dozens of jazzers.

In this collection by the German "History" label, you get nearly 40 hours of digitally remastered original 78s and 45s. The sound quality is truly amazing - the remastering process removes hiss, clicks & pops; optimizes the equalization, and synthesizes stereo. The forty discs in this set are grouped into twenty 2-disc volumes which are dedicated to a vocalist or pair or vocalists.

Volume 16. Peggy Lee — Everything I Love
Volume 17. Anita O’Day / June Christy — Easy Street
Volume 18. Jo Stafford — Fools Rush In
Volume 19. Frank Sinatra / Ivy Anderson — It Don’t Mean A Thing
Volume 20. Billie Holiday / Jimmy Rushing — Blue Skies

Sarah Vaughan – The Complete Roulette Sarah Vaughan Studio Sessions (8 CD, 2002/FLAC)

Sarah Vaughan recorded frequently during her three years with Roulette, and all 16 albums she completed for them plus five previously unissued tracks are included in this comprehensive eight-CD boxed set from Mosaic. The gifted singer is heard in a variety of settings, from superb small-group sessions to big-band settings and various dates bordering on easy listening; the sessions omitting the often syrupy string sections are the cream of this bumper crop. It's a joy to hear Vaughan sharing the spotlight with Joe Williams and the Count Basie Orchestra (with its leader sitting out in favor of her regular pianist, Kirk Stuart) in a swinging "Teach Me Tonight" and a playful take of "If I Were a Bell"; it's a shame that they never recorded an entire album together. Benny Carter's big-band charts also bring out the best in Vaughan. With the exception of the forgettable "The Green Leaves of Summer," Billy May's provides the vocalist with very compatible settings. The scaled-down session with guitarist Mundell Lowe and bassist George Duvivier is among her greatest achievements of her career; the singer is relaxed and stimulated by her accompanists. A similar follow-up date with Barney Kessel and Joe Comfort is equally rewarding. The sessions which add strings, led by various musicians (Jimmy Jones, Quincy Jones, Lalo Schifrin, Joe Reisman, Don Costa, and Marty Manning) serving as both arranger and conductor, vary greatly in quality. Often first-rate (and sometimes somewhat obscure) material is sabotaged by heavy-handed writing awash in strings. But for the most part, Vaughan's gorgeous voice is able to overcome even bland backgrounds. Mosaic remains the pinnacle of reissue labels with this handsome boxed set, which includes detailed liner notes by James Gavin, lots of session photos, and a thorough discography.

Volume 11. Dinah Washington — You Can Depend On Me
Volume 12. Mildred Bailey — It Had To Be You
Volume 13. Judy Garland — I’m Nobody’s Baby
Volume 14. Sarah Vaughan — If You Could See Me Now
Volume 15. Dinah Shore — Who’s Sorry Now

Volume 06. Billie Holiday — The Man I Love
Volume 07. Lena Horne — Stormy Weather
Volume 08. Andrews Sisters / Boswell Sisters — Bei Mir Bist Du Schön
Volume 09. The Mills Brothers — Swing Is The Thing
Volume 10. Ella Fitzgerald — My Man

Limited edition of 10'000 and contains the Mercury 1940's output of musicians like Albert Ammons (including a great father & son date with Gene Ammons on tenor), Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Jay McShann, Roy Byrd (Professor Longhair), Helen Humes, Buddy Rich's Big Band, Cootie Williams (including some Willis "Gator" Jackson), and others. There are six discs full of music, plus a seventh with alternates and a very rare, previously unreleased date by Mary Lou Williams (two tunes).

Volume 01. Frank Sinatra — I’ll Be Seeing You
Volume 02. Nat King Cole — It’s Only A Paper Moon
Volume 03. Perry Como — With A Song In My Heart
Volume 04. Bing Crosby — My Melancholy Baby
Volume 05. Louis Armstrong / Cab Calloway — Long Long Journey

The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 is a 2005 reissue of several 1970 concerts given by Miles Davis, at the Washington, DC nightclub, The Cellar Door.

Significant portions of Davis' Live-Evil were edited and compiled from the music that appears on discs 5 and 6.

It is one of the few recordings that has Keith Jarrett playing electric piano. Live-Evil and this collection are the only live recordings of John McLaughlin live performances with Miles Davis.

Miles Davis: electric trumpet with Wah Wah
Gary Bartz: soprano and alto sax:
John McLaughlin: electric guitar (CDs 5-6 only)
Keith Jarrett: Fender Rhodes electric piano, Fender electric organ
Michael Henderson: electric bass
Jack DeJohnette: drums
Airto Moreira: percussion, Cuica (CDs 2-3-4-5-6)

18 original albums in one budget-priced deluxe box with some of the greatest names in Jazz incl. Miles Davis, Chet Baker, and Oscar Peterson

- The greatest Broadway musicals of all time from Porgy & Bess to West Side Story in fantastic Jazz arrangements

- Also featuring hidden gems like Do-Re-Mi by June Christy and Bob Cooper or Blossom Dearie Sings Comden & Green.

Garnished with a fistful of alternate takes, the 2007 release of Mosaic's 107-track Complete Lionel Hampton Victor Sessions 1937-1941 is a welcome and long overdue CD realization of The Complete Lionel Hampton 1937-1941, a six-LP box set released during the 1970s by the Bluebird label. Only Teddy Wilson came close to achieving what Hamp did in the late 1930s and early '40s, by bringing together the greatest soloists on the scene for a staggeringly productive and inspired series of recordings that essentially defined the state of jazz during the years immediately preceding the Second World War.

These sets includes exclusive download-only released songs through Bill Frisell's Live Download Series.

Blue Mitchell was always a consistent, lyrical, and pleasing trumpeter. Although not as significant during the 1960s as Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard (much less Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis), Mitchell had his own appealing sound and was a major asset on many modern mainstream dates. This four-CD limited-edition Mosaic box set collects Mitchell's first six Blue Note dates as a leader: Step Lightly, The Thing to Do, Down With It, Bring It Home to Me, Boss Horn, and Heads Up.

Three albums are by his quintet, which included tenor saxophonist Junior Cook and usually the young pianist Chick Corea and was formed shortly after he left Horace Silver, and the three others are with larger groups, two of which have arrangements by Duke Pearson. Among the other key sidemen are tenor great Joe Henderson, altoist Leo Wright, baritonist Pepper Adams, and pianists Herbie Hancock and McCoy Tyner. There are just two previously unreleased cuts (both alternate takes), but most of the sets have been somewhat rare for years, and taken as a whole, the swinging hard bop and boogaloo performances are Blue Mitchell's finest recordings as a leader.

Jazz Cafee

Esbjörn Svensson Trio discography 1993-2012 [FLAC]

Ahmad Jamal - The Classic 1958-1962 Recordings [5 CD, 2013/FLAC]

Miles Davis Quintet - Live At Newport 1966 & 1967 (2010/FLAC)

Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Complete Columbia Albums Collection (5 CD, 2012/FLAC)

Keith Jarrett - Mysteries: The Impulse Years 1975-1976 (4 CD, 1996/FLAC)

Keith Jarrett – The Impulse Years 1973-1974 (5 CD, 1997/FLAC)

Sarah Vaughan discography [1944-2007]

Miles Davis - That’s What Happened 1982-1985: Bootleg Volume 7 (3 CD, 2022/FLAC)

Cecil Taylor - Live At The Cafe Montmartre (1994/FLAC)

Miles Davis - On The Crest Of The Airwaves [4 CD, 2011/FLAC]

Dexter Gordon - The Complete Columbia Albums Collection (7 CD, 2011/FLAC)

The Modern Jazz Quartet – Fontessa (1956/FLAC)

Johnny Hodges - The Complete Verve Johnny Hodges Small Group Sessions 1956-1961 [6 CD, 2000/FLAC]

VA - The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records (4 CD, 2006/FLAC)

VA - Great Vocalists of Jazz & Entertainment [2004] Vol. 16-20 of 20

Sarah Vaughan – The Complete Roulette Sarah Vaughan Studio Sessions (8 CD, 2002/FLAC)

VA - Great Vocalists of Jazz & Entertainment [2004] Vol. 11-15 of 20

VA - Great Vocalists of Jazz & Entertainment [2004] Vol. 06-10 of 20

VA- Blues, Boogie & Bop - The 1940s Mercury Sessions [7 CD, 1995]

VA - Great Vocalists of Jazz & Entertainment [2004] Vol. 01-05 of 20

Miles Davis - The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 [6 CD, 2005/FLAC]

VA - Jazz on Broadway: The Greatest Musicals [10 CD, 2019]

Lionel Hampton - The Complete Victor Sessions 1937-1941 [5 CD, 2007/FLAC]

Bill Frisell – Live Download Series (Vol.1 - 18)

Blue Mitchell - The Complete Blue Note Blue Mitchell Sessions (1963-67) [4 CD, 1998/FLAC]