12 best sony jazz album

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By album three, P!nks unrivalled lyrical skills were in full bloom and the foundations were laid firmly for a lengthy career which continued to flourish with Try This, Im Not Dead and Funhouse. With several international number 1s already under her belt, 2012 saw Pinks sixth album, The Truth About Love, earn her even more accolades with her most successful single to date Just Give Me A Reason featuring Nate Ruess.

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No one can deny the beauty of Duke Ellington's music of the 1930s and 40s, yet not to pay similar respect to his masterworks of the 1950s would be scandalous. It was during this time that Ellington embraced the long-playing album with a passion and sense of invention, and released one brilliant recording after another.



While some of the giants were gone from the band, the names that appeared with Ellington during the decade were great: Johnny Hodges, Paul Gonsalves, Clark Terry, Ray Nance and Harry Carney among others, as well as Duke's right hand man, composer and arranger Billy Strayhorn. Taking advantage of the instrumental riches at their disposal and the additional space offered by the LP, Ellington and Strayhorn began thinking in terms of ambitious expanded projects.



The initial Columbia album, Masterpieces By Ellington, found the maestro embracing the new technology, displaying grand arrangements of his popular anthems. Other visionary projects soon followed: Ellington Uptown, featuring the masterful composition, "Tone Parallel To Harlem"; Blue Rose with singer Rosemary Clooney; Such Sweet Thunder, a Shakespearian adaption; Black, Brown and Beige with majestic contributions from Mahalia Jackson; and Anatomy of a Murder, with music written for the hit film, among them. Each of these albums, as well as other jewels including Ellington Indigos, Blues In Orbit and A Drum Is A Woman, brim with marvelous melodies, sumptuous arrangements, glistening solos and exceptional ensemble work from all involved.



Consider just a handful of the contemporary gems to be found on these albums: "The Star-Crossed Lovers," "The Tattooed Bride," and "U.M.M.G." -- and there are dozens more to be found. The 1950s, it turns out, was just one more golden era for the Duke.



Box Set Includes:

1. 1951 -- Masterpieces By Ellington

2. 1952 -- Ellington Uptown

3. 1956 -- Blue Rose w/ Rosemary Clooney

4. 1956 -- The Drum Is A Woman

5. 1957 -- Such Sweet Thunder

6. 1957 -- Ellington Indigos

7. 1958 -- Black, Brown And Beige w/ Mahalia Jackson

8. 1958 -- Duke Ellington At The Bal Masque

9. 1958 -- Duke Ellington's Spacemen: The Cosmic Scene

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2007 five CD set, a great installment in Sony/BMG's Original Album Classics series that brings together rare and out of print titles with some best sellers from the Sony/BMG Jazz catalog. Many of these albums have been unavailable on CD for some time and are sought after by collectors. Each set is presented in a high quality, rigid cardboard slipcase containing five 'vinyl replica' mini LP sleeves. This collection from the Jazz great includes the albums the Bridge, Our Man in Jazz, What's New, the Standard Rollins and Sonny Rollins & Co.

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Critically acclaimed jazz reissue on the Disques Vogue label. Beige & yellow vinyl with black splatters.

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Complete Ben Folds Five concert from the US TV series, 'Sessions at West 54th'. The sardonic trio split up the year after this was filmed. Includes the songs: 'Brick', 'Battle of Who Could Care Less', 'Philosophy', 'Underground' and a cover of The Flaming Lips' 'She Don't Use Jelly'.

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Import 25 CD boxset containing 25 of the finest Jazz albums ever released. Each album is packaged in a card wallet, and the box set includes a 40 page booklet in both English and French. Classic albums included are Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, Dave Brubeck's Time Out, Billie Holiday's Lady in Satin, Nina Simone's Sings the Blues, Erroll Garner's Concert By the Sea, Charlie Parker's Bird and many more! Sony. 2010.

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HQ vinyl reissue of original 1969 compilation. Excellent overview of his Columbia recordings up to that date

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The latest entry in the award-winning Miles Davis Bootleg Series focuses on the final chapter in the landmark collaboration between Davis and saxophonist John Coltrane: their last live performances together, in Europe in the spring of 1960.



Miles and Coltrane first collaborated in 1955, when Davis recruited the tenor saxophonist alongside pianist Red Garland, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Philly Joe Jones. This "first great quintet" made their Columbia Records debut in 1957. Those early recordings showcased the stunning contrasts between Miles' spacious, melodic lines and Trane's cascading high-energy solos, famously described by the critic Ira Gilter in 1958 as "sheets of sound."



While the quintet disbanded shortly after the release of 'Round About Midnight, Coltrane was back in Miles' ensemble in early 1958. A year later, the Miles Davis Sextet (Davis, Coltrane, Chambers, saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, pianists Bill Evans or Wynton Kelly, and drummer Jimmy Cobb) recorded the historic Kind Of Blue, the best-selling jazz album of all time. And for this final tour the rhythm section of Kelly, Chambers and Cobb backed Miles and Trane.



These historic performances marked Miles and Tran's last outing together and showcased both musicians' incredible influence on the changing sound of jazz. The beautiful music they made together is presented here officially for the very first time.



A 150 gram vinyl version, The Final Tour: Copenhagen, March 24, 1960 will include that complete set on one LP.

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Few recordings maintain their power to utterly intoxicate for decades as Kind of Blue does. This 1959 all-time classic is one of the monuments of jazz: So What; Freddie Freeloader; Blue in Green; All Blues, and Flamenco Sketches. This vinyl release is the way to experience one of the greatest albums ever made.

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Kind of Blue

Miles said that he had wanted to draw closer to African and Gospel music as well as the blues, but admitted that he had failed in this intention. Nonetheless, he created his most indisputable masterpiece, containing two of the most popular standards of modern jazz, 'So What' and 'All Blues' On 'Flamenco Sketches,' Miles struck out to explore the harmonic realms of modal music, which he would radicalize ten years later. He also borrowed from Bill Evans, the principal creator of this album, the kind of blue that is reflected in 'Blue In Green.' For the last time, Miles called back the pianist who had just left his quintet, and it was Evans’ harmonic conceptions, inspired by early 20th century European music, that dominated Kind Of Blue.Wynton Kelly, the group’s new pianist, only appeared once, on 'Freddie Freeloader,”'and was stung sharply by this affront: the ultimate touch of bright red to heighten the depth of the blue.

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BILL EVANS - ALBUM - CD