Jazzmatazz Newsletter 258 - November 29, 2005 Jazz Releases

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13 December 2005

Jazzmatazz Newsletter
#258

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29 November 2005

Recent jazz releases
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29 November 2005

Various Artists - Blue 45's - Ultimate Jukebox (Blue Note [EMI UK]) Nov 29
— twenty track compilation of Blue Note singles

Les Baxter - Primitive & Passionate/Les Baxter Balladeers (Collectibles) Nov 29

— two-fer of a pair of 1962-63 Atlantic Records LPs
Gilberto Gil - Nightingale (Collectibles) Nov 29

hear/buy: The Grass Roots/The Grass Is Greener

Grassella Oliphant - The Grass Roots/The Grass Is Greener (Collectibles) Nov 29

— two-fer of his rare 1965 & 1967 Atlantic Records albums
— with Grant Green (guitar), John Patton (organ), Grassella Oliphant (drums); plus Clark Terry (trumpet), Harold Ousley (tenor sax), Bobby Hutcherson (vibes)

Philip Dizack - Beyond A Dream (Fresh Sound New Talent 234) Nov 29
— Philip Dizack (trumpet), Greg Tardy, Pat Cornelius, Miro Sprague

Charlie Hunter/Chinna Smith/Ernest Ranglin - Earth Tones (Green Streets Entertainment) Nov 29

Agusti Fernandez/Peter Kowald - Sea of Lead (Hopscotch Records 017) Nov 29
— Agusti Fernandez (piano, prepared piano), Peter Kowald (bass)
— previously unreleased studio recording from June 27, 2000
Assif Tsahar /Cooper-Moore/Hamid Drake - Lost Brother (Hopscotch Records 033) Nov 29
— Assif Tsahar (tenor sax, bass clarinet), /Cooper-Moore (ashimba, twanger, diddley-bow), Hamid Drake (drum-set, tablas, frame drum)
Assif Tsahar w/ Tatsuya Nakatani & the KJLA String 4tet - (Hopscotch Records 036) Nov 29
— Assif Tsahar (reeds), Tatsuya Nakatani (percussion), Katt Hernandez, Jean Cook (violins), Ljova (viola), Audrey Chan (cello)

Fay Claassen - Two Portraits Of Chet Baker - 2 CDs (Jazz Impuls [Holland])
— on disc one Claassen sings the trumpet parts of Chet in the famous piano-less Mulligan Baker quartet; on disc two she sings the lyrics; with bassist Hein van der Geijn and the drummer John Engels (who played with Baker)

Betty Joplin - Visions Of The Moment (Preserved Moments Music) Nov 29

— Betty Joplin (vocals); Rick Hicks (guitar); Larry Fuller (keyboards); Larry Gray (double bass); Leon Joyce Jr. (drums); recorded in Chicago

Stefan Karlsson Trio - Music Is Forever: The Music of Pianist Russ Freeman (TNC Recordings) Nov 29
— Stefan Karlsson, piano; Tom Warrington, bass; Ed Soph, drums; plus Marvin Stamm, trumpet & flugelhorn, and Joni Janak, vocals

Chet Baker - Broken Wing (Verve) Nov 29

— Chet Baker (vocals, trumpet); Phil Markowitz (piano); Jean Francois Jenny Clarke (double bass); Jeff Brillinger (drums); recorded in Paris in 1978

Japanese imports

Erroll Garner - Penthouse Serenade (Columbia [Japan]) Nov 29
Erroll Garner - Serenade To Laura (Columbia [Japan]) Nov 29
Stan Getz - Opus De Bop (Columbia [Japan]) Nov 29
Dizzy Gillespie - Groovin' High (Columbia [Japan]) Nov 29
Dizzy Gillespie - School Days (Columbia [Japan]) Nov 29
Dexter Gordon - Dexter Rides Again (Columbia [Japan]) Nov 29
Milt Jackson - Meet (Columbia [Japan]) Nov 29
J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding - Jay & Kai (Columbia [Japan]) Nov 29
Fats Navarro - Memorial (Columbia [Japan]) Nov 29
Fats Navarro - Nostalgia (Columbia [Japan]) Nov 29
Charlie Parker - The Complete Studio Recordings, Vol. 1 (Columbia [Japan]) Nov 29
Charlie Parker - The Complete Studio Recordings, Vol. 2 (Columbia [Japan]) Nov 29
Charlie Parker - The Complete Studio Recordings, Vol. 3 (Columbia [Japan]) Nov 29
Charlie Parker - The Complete Studio Recordings, Vol. 4 (Columbia [Japan]) Nov 29
Charlie Parker - The Complete Royal Roost Live, Vol. 1 (Columbia [Japan]) Nov 29
Charlie Parker - The Complete Royal Roost Live, Vol. 2 (Columbia [Japan]) Nov 29
Charlie Parker - The Complete Royal Roost Live, Vol. 3 (Columbia [Japan]) Nov 29
Charlie Parker - The Complete Royal Roost Live, Vol. 4 (Columbia [Japan]) Nov 29
Jimmy Scott - If You Only Knew (Columbia [Japan]) Nov 29
Jimmy Scott - Very Truely Yours (Columbia [Japan]) Nov 29
Charlie Ventura - East Of Suez (Columbia [Japan]) Nov 29
George Wallington - George Wallington Trio (Columbia [Japan]) Nov 29
Lester Young - Blue Lester (Columbia [Japan]) Nov 29
Lester Young - The Master's Touch (Columbia [Japan]) Nov 29

other recent jazz releases
(from July to last week)
[recent.Jazzmatazz.info]

Paal Nilssen-Love/Anders Hana - AM/FM - CDR (Utech Records 022) Nov 22
— Paal Nilssen-Love (drums) and Anders Hana (electric guitar)
— recorded at Numusic Festival, Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway, 8/21/04
Paal Nilssen-Love - Twenty Seven Years Later - CDR (Utech Records 023) Nov 22
— solo drums and percussion; recorded at Molde International Jazz Festival, Forum, Molde, Norway, 7/20/02; performing in the same building his father (also a drummer, now a painter) had played 27 years earlier

Greg Goodman/Garth Powell/George Cremaschi - Woody Woodman's Circus of Construction Acts 1-14 (The Beak Doctor 8) Nov
— Greg Goodman on unprepared piano, Garth Powell on percussion & bent saw and George Cremaschi on contrabass with chopsticks

Roger Doyle - Charlotte Corday And The Lament Of Louis XVI/The Passades, Vol I [His Master's Noise Vol 2]
(BVhaast 0304) Nov 15
— Roger Doyle (electronics), Olwen Fouere, Paavo Evans-Doyle, Kathy Kennedy, Paul Dutton, Roger Doyle (voices)
Frank Van Bommel Quintet - Ore (BVhaast 0704) Nov 15
— Tobias Delius & Michael Moore on saxes & clarinets, Frank Van Bommel on piano & compositions, Arjen Gorter on contrabass and Martin Van Duynhoven on drums
Monika H Band - Bright (MH 2005) Nov
— Monika Heidemann on vocals, Khabu Doug Young on guitar, Matt Moran on vibes, Massimo Biolcati on bass and Take Toriyama on drums;
— texts by Brion Gysin, Herman Melville (both with the music of Steve Lacy), Allen Ginsberg and Marc Riordan

Combustion Chamber - Interconnector (BVhaast 0804) Nov 15
— brass-heavy 12-piece ensemble conducted by Rutger Van Leyden, featuring compositions by Steve Martland, Renske Vrolojk, Frank Crijns, John de Simone, Toek Numan and John Korsrud

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earlier 2005 jazz releases
(Jan-July)
[jazzmatazz.home.att.net/cds2005.html]

non-jazz items of interest

Dominic Frasca - Deviations (Cantaloupe 21032) Nov 8
— solo non-overdubbed electric guitar

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13 December 2005