John Coltrane ( + Miles Davis, Eric Dolphy ) - Live Trane: Underground [12 CD /FLAC]

 

Great bootleg box set

Jazztet: Art Farmer & Benny Golson - The Complete Sessions [1959-1962] (4 CD, 2013/FLAC)

 Fronted by Art Farmer and Benny Golson, the Jazztet was one of the best jazz combos during its three-year existence, from 1959 to 1962. Although their recordings are much revered now, they never obtained enough commercial success to maintain the group. According to All Music Guide critic Scott Yanow, “the Jazztet – along with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and Horace Silver’s quintet – was the definitive hard bop combo. Benny Golson’s compositions and arrangements gave the sextet a personal sound and a consistently fresh repertoire, the rhythm section (despite many changes in personnel) always swung steadily and the soloists were distinctive and inventive.”

This release consists every know recording by the Jazztet fronted by Farmer and Golson. It consists of their 6 complete studio LPs (presented in chronological order):

• Meet the Jazztet (Argo LP 664)

• Big City Sounds (Argo LP 672)

• The Jazztet and John Lewis (Argo LP 684)

• The Jazztet at the Birdhouse (Argo LP 688)

• Here and Now (Mercury SR 60698)

• Another Git Together (Mercury SR 60737)

as well as the set of the Jazztet at the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival (with Duke Pearson on piano), and a single song from that period performed by the group on a “Tonight Show” TV broadcast.

Billie Holiday - Perfect Complete Collection (12 CD, 1993)

This luxury bounded box contain 12 CD for a total of 236 tracks, almost all the live tracks recorded by Billie Holiday along her career. 

VA - Membran Music's Jazz Ballads Series Vol. 6-10 (10 CD, 2004) [FLAC + 320]

 A CD sets with the most beautiful ballads in the history of jazz.

Lyrical, imaginative, sensuous and melodic jewels from the art of music.

Precisely for those people who have maintained their taste for lasting musical values.

Jazz in its most gentle form.

Irrestible...

Jazz Ballads 6: Coleman Hawkins

Jazz Ballads 7: Django Reinhardt

Jazz Ballads 8: Oscar Peterson

Jazz Ballads 9: Errol Garner

Jazz Ballads 10: Stan Getz

McCoy Tyner — Mosaic Select 25 (3 CD, 2007/FLAC)

Pianist and composer McCoy Tyner already had an illustrious career during his tenure with the John Coltrane Quartet, and as a leader in the 1960s. Along with the sides he recorded with Trane, Tyner led a number of excellent sessions for Impulse, among them his debut for the label, Inception, as well as Ballads and Blues: both were issued in 1962. Today and Tomorrow (containing a three-horn front line) and Reaching Fourth (with bassist Henry Grimes and drummer Roy Haynes) both appeared in 1963. He was already a fully forged identity, though the influence of and on Coltrane's sound was profound -- his playing and improvising were as much a part of the architecture of that sound as they were part of him when he signed to Blue Note in 1967. He recorded Real McCoy in 1967 with Joe Henderson, Elvin Jones, and Ron Carter, and a quartet date in 1968 called Time for Tyner with Bobby Hutcherson, Herbie Lewis, and Freddie Waits. Between these two albums was the compelling Tender Moments, which boasted on a couple of its selections a nonet. It is on this last recording that the blueprint for Tyner's next move was apparent.

Miles Davis - Original Album Series (5 CD, 2012/FLAC)

 

Tutu (1986) 

Music From Siesta (1987) 

Amandla (1989) 

Dingo (Selections From The Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1991) 

Doo-Bop (1991) 

Medeski Martin & Wood discography [1992-2018]

 

Medeski Martin & Wood (or MMW) is an American jazz trio formed in 1991.

The band draws on influences from a number of musical traditions, from funk to Hip Hop, and is known for an unconventional style sometimes described as "avant-groove".

MMW has found moderate mainstream success—often working with noted guitarist John Scofield—and touring on the jam band circuit.

Shelly Manne & His Men — At The Black Hawk (5 CD, 1991/FLAC)

 Deluxe five CD set containing all known recordings by Shelly Mann & His Men at the Black Hawk. This edition presents - for the first time ever on a single collection and in chronological order - all known recordings by the legendary Shelly Manne quintet with Joe Gordon and Richie Kamuca made at the Black Hawk, in San Francisco during 1959. This was the first time Shelly Manne and His Men recorded in a live setting and the results were so astonishing that both the original producers and the members of the group felt the need to issue most of the music recorded during the three days of sessions on a four volume collection. All known music from the gig is contained on this set. 

Archie Shepp Quartet feat. Annette Lowman - Lover Man (1988/FLAC)

 Shepp has been criticized for his more commercial ventures such as this, but many will enjoy its accessibly light charm. Most of the numbers are standards, including "My Funny Valentine," "Lover Man," and "Lush Life," and are performed by the saxophonist backed by a solid rhythm section. Dave Burrell is wonderfully deft on piano, and he is given ample opportunity to interact with Shepp. Annette Lowman sings on several numbers, and she adds just the right touch and phrasing. Shepp is in somewhat less than perfect form, but he is clearly enjoying himself. There is a touch of a blues and R&B feel that adds to the ambiance. Unlike some of Shepp's other ventures, there are no attempted serious statements made -- only relaxing, good, swinging jazz that lifts the spirits or touches the soul, if only just a bit. 

• Archie Shepp - saxophone
• Annette Lowman - vocals
• Dave Burrell - piano
• Herman Wright - bass
• Steve McCraven - drums

Blue Mitchell collection [1958-1998]

Richard Allen "Blue" Mitchell (March 13, 1930 – May 21, 1979) was an American jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, rock, and funk trumpeter, known for many albums recorded as leader and sideman for Riverside, Blue Note and then Mainstream Records.