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.

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

 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 

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

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

 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 Vaughan discography [1944-2007]

 

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.

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

 

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.

 

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

 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.