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| Count Basie "88 Basie Street Basie rarely did a bad record, but if what you like is the recording quality "88 Basie Street" is exceptional. All of his records on the Pablo label, which were recorded late in his life, are very well recorded. In fact, Pablo in general has very ... | |
| MF Nu Vista M3 Power Unit Umbilical Cords Change? Can you elaborate on what the improvements were? | |
| Big Blue Tenor Sax Ed Wiley, Jr. 'About the Soul' A Texas tenorman who just passed away last year. This 2005 recording - very well recorded recording - is dripping blues, with Kenny Baron, Mickey Roker and Jimmy Ponder among the sidemen. Apparently I've already got ... | |
| New Grateful Dead Box set...Opinions? You might find more interesting music with the Dead's concert downloads or the Dick's Picks CDs. Workingman's and American Beauty are great albums, but the live dates of that era really capture the band at its best. | |
| Big Blue Tenor Sax Bennie Wallace, 'Big Jim's Tango' with Dave Holland and Elvin Jones on the Enja label. Terrific trio record. | |
| Big Blue Tenor Sax Pete Christlieb with the Lori Mechem Quartet, on the Cognito label is excellent. Big full tenor sound, nice live recording, very classic style. Uncommon use of strummed rythmn guitar. Joshua Redman, while excellent, is kind of what I'm trying to m... | |
| Big Blue Tenor Sax Charles Lloyd is great (the new record "Mirrors" is exceptional), but that's not exactly the "blues" I'm looking for. Eric Alexander was a good suggestion... Grant Stewart comes to mind... modern guys playing an older more straight-ahead blues sty... | |
| Big Blue Tenor Sax I must be getting warm, because I have a lot of that stuff aleady. Houston Person, Art Pepper, Joe Henderson, Ike Quebec, Stanley Turrentine (the new CTI reissue of 'Sugar' is awesome)Ben Webster, Hawk, Prez. I just ordered a copy of 'State of the... | |
| Wynton Marsalis The Wynton Marsalis Quartet, Live at Blues Alley is a really good double album, and pretty cheap to find on vinyl. | |
| Best Keith Jarrett records The album "Jasmine", which is just Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden as a duet is really really good. Very little of the dreaded KJ humming. | |
| any new BLUES recomendations? It's not new by any means, but your collection is incomplete without Albert King's "Born Under A Bad Sign". | |
| "Messiah" recommendations? I would second checking out Arkivmusic.com. I'm sure they have good suggestions. | |
| Best jazz record you didn't hear in 2010 Nah... BP has the subtlety of a jack hammer. | |
| Best Jazz of 2010 Richard Doron Johnson's "Battle Grounds" on Steeplechase. His debut as a leader. Phenominally good record. | |
| Mr. Moody I love James Moody, but I have to pass this along. I just picked up "plays Henry Mancini". Mr. Moody sings Moon River and he kind of sounds like a cross between Barry White and Elmer Fudd. "♪♫ Moon riber.... Wiber than a mile...♫.Just saying. |