Spyro Gyra discography (1978-2009) [FLAC]
Their music, which has been influential in the development of smooth jazz and is s staple on the numerous smooth jazz radio stations nationwide, combines jazz with elements of R&B, funk and pop music. Generally considered to be more "jazz" than "smooth", Spyro Gyra has been praised for their skilled instrumentalists and for their live performances, which average about 100 per year.
With the exception of alto saxophonist, songwriter and founding bandleader Jay Beckenstein and keyboardist Tom Schuman,
the personnel has changed over time, as well as between the studio and
the live stage. Today, guitarist Julio Fernandez is also in his third
decade with the band.
1978 Spyro Gyra
1979 Morning Dance
1980 Carnaval
1980 Catching The Sun
1981 Freetime
1982 Incognito
1983 City Kids
1984 Access All Areas
1985 Alternating Currents
1986 Breakout
1987 Stories Without Words
1988 Rites of summer
1989 Point of View
1990 Fast Forward
1991 Collection
1992 Three Wishes
1993 Dreams Beyond Control
1995 Love & Other Obsessions
1996 Heart Of The Night
1997 20-20
1998 Road Scholars
1999 Got the Magic
2001 In Modern Times
2003 Original Cinema
2004 The Deep End
2006 Wrapped In A Dream
2007 Good To Go-Go
2008 A Night Before Christmas
2009 Down The Wire
Jim Hall – Live Vol. 2-4 ( Toronto 1975) (3 CD, 2012/FLAC))
Features previously unreleased recordings from trio performances at Bourbon Street in Toronto, Canada on June 11-13, 1975.
The recordings provide an additional 3 hours of music from the original 1975 album Live!
- Jim Hall - g
- Don Thompson - b
- Terry Clarke - d
Rec.: live at Bourbon Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 11 (CD 2 - Volume Three), 12 (CD 1 - Volume Two) and 13 (CD 3 - Volume 4), 1975.
CD 1 - Volume Two
01. How Deep Is The Ocean (11:10)
02. Emily (6:24)
03. Valse Hot (7:11)
04. Love Letters (9:28)
05. Chelsea Bridge (10:06)
06. Something Tells Me (7:22)
07. Fly Me To The Moon (10:32)
CD 2 - Volume Three
01. Secret Love (14:56)
02. Baubles, Bangles And Beads (6:24)
03. In A Sentimental Mood (5:42)
04. Star Eyes (10:41)
05. Where Would I Be? (7:51)
06. Body And Soul (10:36)
07. Careful (7:45)
CD 3 - Volume 4
01. Someday My Prince Will Come (9:35)
02. Come Rain Or Come Shine (12:46)
03. Prelude To A Kiss (6:33)
04. Everything I Love (9:37)
05. Blue Dove (9:18)
06. Embraceable You (8:09)
07. The Theme (5:33)
Buddy DeFranco & the All Stars - Wholly Cats : Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw Sessions" Vol.1 & 2 (3 CD, 2007/FLAC)
5 complete LPs presented on 2 companion volumes! Featuring Carl Perkins, Jimmy Rowles, Barney Kessel and Don Fagerquist! Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw were among the most famous and beloved figures in swing music both as clarinet soloists and orchestra conductors. They were still very active musically in 1957, when Buddy De Franco decided to record a series of sessions paying homage to them. Thirty-five performances were recorded (including four medleys containing three songs each) in four extended sessions made on four consecutive days and with two different groups (guitarist Barney Kessel, however, is present on most of the tracks). The fi rst two sessions included trumpeter Don Fagerquist, tenor saxophonist Georgie Auld and pianist Carl Perkins. The second group includes trumpeter Ray Linn and another modern jazz pianist: Jimmy Rowles.
These two companion volumes include the complete LPs FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ON CD!: "I Hear Benny Goodman & Artie Shaw", "Buddy De Franco plays Benny Goodman", "Buddy De Franco plays Artie Shaw", "Wholly Cats" and "Closed Session".
John Coltrane collection [1957-2019] (FLAC)
John William Coltrane,
also known as "Trane"; (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an
American jazz saxophonist and composer. Working in the bebop and hard
bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes
in jazz and later was at the forefront of free jazz. He organized at
least fifty recording sessions as a leader during his recording career,
and appeared as a sideman on many other albums, notably with trumpeter
Miles Davis and pianist Thelonious Monk.As his career progressed, Coltrane and his music took on an increasingly spiritual dimension. His second wife was pianist Alice Coltrane and their son Ravi Coltrane is a saxophonist. Coltrane influenced innumerable musicians, and remains one of the most significant saxophonists in jazz history. He received many posthumous awards and recognitions, including canonization by the African Orthodox Church as Saint John William Coltrane. In 2007, Coltrane was awarded the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation for his "masterful improvisation, supreme musicianship and iconic centrality to the history of jazz."
1957 - John Coltrane - Blue Train
1958 - John Coltrane With The Red Garland Trio
1958 - Wilbur Harden & John Coltrane - Tanganyika Strut
1958 - Wilbur Harden - Jazz Way Out
1958 - Wilbur Harden, John Coltrane, Tommy Flanagan, Doug Watkins, Louis Hayes - Mainstream
1959 - Tommy Flanagan, John Coltrane, Kenny Burrell, Idress Sulieman - The Cats
1960 - John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays The Blues
1960 - John Coltrane - Giant Steps
1961 - John Coltrane - Africa-Brass
1961 - John Coltrane - Lush Life
1961 - John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
1961 - John Coltrane - Ole Coltrane
1962 - John Coltrane - Standard Coltrane
1962 - The John Coltrane Quartette - Coltrane [Hi-Res]
1963 - John Coltrane - Ballads
1963 - John Coltrane - Stardust [Hi-Res]
1964 - John Coltrane - Black Pearls [Hi-Res]
1964 - John Coltrane - Live At Birdland
1965 - John Coltrane - A Love Supreme. In Concert
1965 - John Coltrane - Bahia [Hi-Res]
1966 - John Coltrane & Don Cherry - The Avant-Garde [Hi-Res]
1966 - John Coltrane - Kulu Se Mama
1966 - John Coltrane - Meditations
1967 - John Coltrane - Expression
1970 - John Coltrane - Transition
2018 - John Coltrane - Both Directions at Once - The Lost Album
2019 - John Coltrane - Blue World
Verve Jazz Masters series Vol. 41-50
Jazz Masters is a series of mainly single artist compilations released by Polygram/Verve between 1994 and 1996. The compilations collect material that was originally released on Verve or on one of the labels that became part of the Polygram group. The 20th and 60th releases in the series were various artist collections.
VJM 41 - Tal Farlow
VJM 42 - Sarah Vaughan - The Jazz Sides
VJM 43 - Ben Webster
VJM 44 - Clifford Brown And Max Roach
VJM 45 - Kenny Burrell
VJM 46 - Ella Fitzgerald - The Jazz Sides
VJM 47 - Billie Holiday Sings Standards
VJM 48 - Oliver Nelson
VJM 49 - Anita O'Day
VJM 50 - Sonny Stitt
Stan Getz - East of the Sun: The West Coast Sessions (3 CD, 1996/FLAC)
The mainstream came to know this remarkable tenor sax player via bossa nova -- his unforgettable, breathy solo on "The Girl from Ipanema" propelled the song to number five in 1964 and to continued popularity to this very day, every bit as much as Astrud Gilberto's equally stunning, spare voice. But Stan Getz's involvement in this populist '60s craze actually displeased many a serious jazz enthusiast who'd admired his work in that field for more than two decades. After all, this 17-time winner of the Down Beat poll for top tenor saxophonist had already staked out a remarkable reputation, playing in the bands of such vaunted names as Stan Kenton, Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, and Woody Herman from 1944-1949, and then leading his own bands thereafter.
This three-CD box, then, finds Getz in top form as a jazz soloist and bandleader. Recorded, as so much jazz was, in various off-the-cuff sessions from 1955-1957 -- although this box culls from different LPs such as West Coast Jazz, Stan Getz and the Cool Sounds, and The Steamer -- it still all fits together as one long, languid, bop-to-bluesy session. Fusion beckoned to many a talent of the time, but Getz nicely held his ground, insisting that long, wide-stretching solos always serve a well-grounded song, be it a composition by George and Ira Gershwin, Miles Davis, Jimmy Van Heusen, or himself. With an almost unparalleled sense of time and space, Getz fills it in no particular hurry, and his piano, trumpet, bass, and drums likewise seem inclined to be tasteful rather than showoff-ish virtuosity. The slow, quiet-afternoon melancholic stuff, such as "A Handful of Stars," are the real favorites. Like "Girl from Ipanema," these allow Getz to blow like the gentle lull before a storm or, as original pianist Lou Levy writes in the notes here 40 years later, like "a sound of an angel." But the man is a master of all the styles presented, and an overriding cool, calm, pleasant air nicely defines these spontaneous yet well-organized sessions. This box is a fitting legacy and a thorough overview of an inspired period in his prolific career.
Bass - Leroy Vinnegar
Drums - Shelly Manne (tracks: CD1, CD2-01 to 04) , Stan Levey (tracks: CD2-05 to 12, CD3)
Piano - Lou Levy
Saxophone - Stan Getz
Trumpet - Conte Candoli (tracks: CD1-01 to 07)
Recorded August 9, 15, and 19, 1955; November 24, 1956; and August 2, 1957.
Andy Kirk - Chronogical Classics 1929-1948 (7 CD/FLAC)
Andrew Dewey Kirk (May 28, 1898 – December 11, 1992) was an American jazz saxophonist and tubist who led the Twelve Clouds of Joy, a band popular during the swing era.
He was born in Newport, Kentucky, United States. Kirk grew up in Denver, Colorado, where he was tutored by Wilberforce Whiteman, Paul Whiteman's father. Kirk started his musical career playing with George Morrison's band, but then went on to join Terrence Holder's Dark Clouds of Joy. In 1929, he was elected leader after Holder departed. Renaming the band Clouds of Joy, Kirk also relocated the band from Dallas, Texas, to Kansas City, Missouri. Although named the Clouds of Joy, the band has also been known as the Twelve Clouds of Joy due to the number of musicians in the band. They set up in the Pla-Mor Ballroom on the junction of 32nd and Main in Kansas City and made their first recording for Brunswick Records that same year. Mary Lou Williams came in as pianist at the last moment, but she impressed Brunswick's Dave Kapp, so she became a member of the band.
David Liebman & Richie Beirach - Mosaic Select 12 (3 CD, 2004/FLAC)
The 12th volume in the Mosaic Select series offers a different view of its chosen artists than on previous issues. For starters, all of the recordings on these three CDs are previously unissued live performances. They are compiled from the years between 1976 and 1991, when Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach began recording together in an electric group called Lookout Farm (with Frank Tusa, Jeff Williams, and Todd Barkan), and recorded for the ECM label. They continued as a duo for the same label, and then for the A&M Horizon label and Artists House. Finally, they collaborated again in a group called Quest, with bassist Ron McClure and drummer Billy Hart. The music ranges from fusion (Liebman had been Miles Davis' saxophonist for his On the Corner and Get Up With It albums) to modal exploration á la Coltrane and McCoy Tyner.
Bill Evans Trio & Guests - Live In Nice 1978 (2 CD, 2010/FLAC)
Joining them are Lee Konitz for three amazing quartet tracks, Curtis Fuller (who joins Konitz and the trio for a marvelous quintet version of Lover Man), and Stan Getz and Christian Escoude (who join Fuller and the trio for the finale on All the Things You Are).
A rare interview with Evans made right after the Nice concert has also been included on this release, as well as another unissued concert by the same trio taped in Italy a few days later.
Recorded Live at Le Grande Parade Du Jazz, Nice, France, July 7, 1978.
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