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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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.
Don Friedman "Attila's Dreams" ---- with Andrew Cheshire, Ron McClure and Joey Baron on the Ephemeris juss records Lable
Bill Evans Trio sessions at the VV. These performances are the last of bassist Scott LaFaro. The titles are Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby. I never get tired of those; I only wish more of this engagement was recorded . . .