Tip: Excellent Jazz CD's


Category: Music

If you like solid mainstream jazz (mostly standards), check out the 2 CD's (The Bellingham Sessions, Vol. 1 & 2) by the Chuck Israels Quartet, released on the "Audio Ideas" label. This label is the private label of the Audio Ideas Guide magazine (a Canadian publication). For those of you who don't know Chuck Israels, he was the bassist who played Bill Evans group following Scott LaFaro's untimely death. Israels is now a professor of music at Western Washington University. The CD's by the Israels group are among the best recorded I have ever heard, and the music is excellent. You can get more info and order the CD's at the following Web site: www.audioideas.on.ca
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Thanks for the tip. Add these: Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (ELLA and LOUIS)Verve Master Edition. This will blow you away! Charles Lloyd (The Water is Wide) ECM. The 1st track, Georgia, is worth the price of admission alone. Shelly Manne & His Men At The Black Hawk (Vols. 1-5). NO jazz collection should be without that one! Enjoy.
Trcnet, if you really enjoy Brad Mehldau, check out his work with Joshua Redman. These are two of the most exciting "new" artist out there.
Brad Mehldau also appears on Joshua Redman's "Timeless Tales". Here is a "live" trio set that you may enjoy, Dmitri Matheny's "Starlight Cafe". Dmitri does a nice job on Flugelhorn. It's soft, but not syrupy.
Tom, Dmitri Matheny on Flugelhorn, Darrel Grant on piano, and Bill Douglass on Bass. For a live recording, the sonics are good. There are moments, when it gets very good, that you forget it's live. This is just one of the very few "recent" recordings that I have. I really love the small acoustic combos of the 50's & 60's. For me, it can't get much better than that.