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5 January 2006

Jazzmatazz Newsletter
#262

New Issues
27 December 2005



Recent jazz releases
[recent.Jazzmatazz.info]

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27 December 2005


Etta James - The Complete Modern & Kent Recordings - 2 CDs (Ace [UK] 1085) Dec 27
— 1954-58 recordings remastered from the original Modern tape sources; also includes "every surviving significant alternate take"; recorded in New Orleans and L.A.

Various Artists - Real Ragtime: Disc Recordings From Its Heyday (Archeophone Records 1001A)
— recorded between 1989 and 1917; 78 minutes; remastered with new liner notes;

Herbie Mann - Family Of Mann: First Light/This Is My Beloved (Collectables) Dec 27 hear sound samples — two-fer; 1962

Stephane Grappelli - Jalouise (EMI Angel) Dec 31 hear sound samples
Simon Rattle - Jazz Album (EMI Angel) Dec 31 hear sound samples

Simon Rattle & the City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra - Classic Ellington (EMI Classics) Dec 31 hear sound samples
— Simon Rattle (conductor); Luther Henderson (arranger); Lena Horne (vocals); Regina Carter (violin); Bobby Watson (alto saxophone); Joe Lovano, Joshua Redman (tenor saxophone); Clark Terry (trumpet); Gerri Allen (piano); Peter Washington (bass); Mark Goodchild (double bass); Lewis Nash (drums); City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra recorded at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, England, 1999

buy: Tivoli 1969


Duke Ellington - Tivoli 1969 - DVD (Image Entertainment) Dec 27
— 82 minutes

Brian Priestley - Chasin' the Bird: The Life And Legacy of Charlie Parker (Oxford University Press) Dec 31
— 272 pages; hardcover

Dee Dee Bridgewater - Live in Paris (Pid) Dec 27
— reissue of 1986 MCA album


Japanese imports
Dave Brubeck - Bossa Nova U.S.A. (Sony [Japan]) Dec 27
Miles Davis - 1958 Miles (Sony [Japan]) Dec 27
Duke Ellington - First Time-Count Meets The Duke (Sony [Japan]) Dec 27
Erroll Garner - Concert By The Sea (Sony [Japan]) Dec 27
Stan Getz - Peacock (Sony [Japan]) Dec 27
Herbie Hancock - Flood (Sony [Japan]) Dec 27
Weather Report - Mr. Gone (Sony [Japan]) Dec 27
Denny Zeitlen - Live at the Trident (Sony [Japan]) Dec 27



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

Bill Kirchner - Everything I Love (Evening Star 111) Dec
— with Ed Monteiro, Ron Vincent, Jackie Cain

Robert Marcel Lepage - Pee Wee et Moi (Ambiances Magnetiques [Canada] 145) Dec 13
— Robert Lepage, Francois Houle and five other clarinetists, Rene Lussier on guitar, Normand Guilbeault on double-bass and Pierre Tanguay on drums
Trio Derome Guilbeault Tanguay - At Sea (Ambiances Magnetiques [Canada] 144) Dec 13
— Jean Derome on alto & bari saxes, flute & voice, Normand Guilbeault on contrabass and Pierre Tanguay on drums

buy: Goodbye: In Search of Gordon Jenkins


Bruce Jenkins - Goodbye: In Search of Gordon Jenkins (North Atlantic Books) Nov 22
— 341 pages; hardcover
— biography and homage by Bruce Jenkins of his father, composer, arranger, conductor Gordon Jenkins, who worked with Nat Cole, Bing Crosby, Benny Goodman, Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, Pete Seeger, and others

Jonathan Kane - February (Table of the Elements 88) Oct 11 hear sound samples

Billy Childs Ensemble - Lyric: Jazz-Chamber Music, Vol. 1 (Lunacy/ArtistShare) Sept
— with Larry Koonse, Scott Colley, Brian Blade, Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Bob Sheppard, Jimmy Johnson and Carol Robbins, a.o.

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


non-jazz items of interest


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