Gerry Mulligan - Mosaic Select 21 (3 CD, 2007/FLAC)

 

Gerry Mulligan was certainly busy in December 1957. During a two-week period, the baritonist recorded a reunion album with trumpeter Chet Baker, documented a set of his songs with an octet that featured five top saxophonists, recorded a very obscure set with a sextet that included four strings, and cut most of an album in which his quartet teamed up with singer Annie Ross. This limited-edition three-CD set contains all of the music plus alternate takes and the last part of the Ross album, which was recorded nine months later with trumpeter Art Farmer in Baker's spot.

Hank Crawford - Heart And Soul (The Hank Crawford Anthology) (2 CD, 1994/FLAC)

 

Altoist Hank Crawford, was one of the most soulful stylists to emerge during the 1960s. HEART AND SOUL contains 31 tracks on 2 discs spanning Crawfords's 35-plus years in jazz. 

VA - Groovy Jazz Organ (3 CD, 2014/FLAC)

 

The Organ can often take a back seat in the pecking order of great Jazz instruments but under appreciate it at your peril. The likes of Jimmy Smith, Jack McDuff, Booker T and Ray Charles, to name but a few, made the instrument their own while crafting Jazz cuts of dazzling brilliance.

Art Farmer - The Complete Albums Collection 1958-1961 (4 CD, 2016/FLAC)

 

Renowned for his uniquely melodic, deeply emotional and characteristically reserved soloing style, the music of Art Farmer has remained deceptively difficult to define. Rising to fame as a trumpeter before moving on to the softer tone of the flugelhorn during the early 1960s, Farmer rejected the typical bright and penetrating sounds utilised by many players at this time, in preference of a more restrained style, also favoured by the likes of Kenny Dorham and even Miles Davis in his earlier work.

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)