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Jazz

Greatest Hits

Sales Rank:1104
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Artist(s):

Dave Koz

Tracks:

You Make Me Smile
All I See Is You
Can't Let You Go (The Sha La Song)
Faces Of The Heart
Together Again
Honey Dipped
Emily
Life In The Fast Lane (new bonus track)
Love Is On The Way'
I Can (new bonus track)
Lullaby For A Rainy Night
Badabing (new bonus track)
Love Changes Everything
And Then I Knew (new bonus track)
Castle Of Dreams

This 15 track compilation includes 11 essential hits including "Castle Of Dreams," You Make Me Smile," "Together Again," and "All I See Is You" plus 4 newly recorded songs including the current smooth jazz radio hit "Life In The Fast Lane."

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Sings Totally Blonde

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Artist(s):

Michael Bublé

Tracks:

That's How It Goes
Peroxide Swing
Me & Mrs. You
Love At First Sight
Anyone To Love
Guess I'm Falling 4 U
Tell Him He's Yours
That's How It Goes (video)
Love At First Sight (video)
Anyone To Love (video)
Me And Mrs. You (video)
Tell Him He's Yours (video)
Peroxide Swing (video)

2008 enhanced CD containing sizzling swing from the coolest crooner in Pop featuring seven tracks recorded for the soundtrack of the 2001 film Totally Blonde plus six enhanced performances of Buble performing the tracks. Recorded when the singer was on the cusp of superstardom, this audio and video collection captures Michael Bublé at his charismatic, super-slick best, looking sharp and sounding sharper. Finger-poppin' fun, this album is essential Bublé. Metro.

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Autumn (Windham Hill 20th Anniversary Edition)

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Artist(s):

George Winston

Tracks:

Colors/Dance
Woods
Longing/Love
Road
Moon
Sea
Stars
Too Much Between Us

The precursor to 1982's commercial breakthrough, December, George Winston's 1980 Windham Hill debut boasts all the lyrical power and poignancy of its follow-up. A simple, clear recording for solo piano, Autumn finds Winston developing simple melodic motifs with studied left-hand underpinning, on hypnotic pieces like "Woods," which moves from a brisk rhythmic figure to rubato minor-key runs. Leaving pauses and breaths in all the right places, Winston suggests the play of color and light, the comfortable melancholy, and the encroaching slow-down that characterizes the fall season. Full of memorable themes, sure pacing, and whiffs of classical grandeur, Autumn is a timeless album that belongs to the firmament of the new age canon. --James Rotondi

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The Standard

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Artist(s):

Take 6

Tracks:

Sweet Georgia Brown - Take 6, Pinkard, Maceo
Straighten Up and Fly Right - Take 6, Cloe, Nat
Seven Steps to Heaven - Take 6, Davis, Miles
Windmills of Your Mind - Take 6, Bergman, Alan
Someone to Watch Over Me - Take 6, Gershwin, George
Grace (Reprise) - Take 6, Jones, Quincy
Back to You - Take 6, McKnight, Claude
A-Tisket, A-Tasket - Take 6, Fizgerald, Ella
Bein' Green - Take 6, Raposo, Joe
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans - Take 6, Alter, Louis
What's Going On - Take 6, Benson, Renaldo
Shall We Gather at the River - Take 6, Lowry, Robert
Grace - Take 6, Jones, Quincy

A cappella powerhouse Take 6 marks a new jazz vocal milestone with The Standard. Winners of 10 GRAMMY Awards, 10 Dove Awards, one Soul Train Award and two NAACP Image Award nominations, the influential sextet - Mark Kibble, Claude V. McKnight III, Dr. Cedric Dent, David Thomas, Alvin Chea and Joey Kibble - raises the bar with a recording of mostly jazz (and some R&B) standards, including "Straighten Up and Fly Right," "A-Tisket, A-Tasket," "Someone To Watch Over Me," "What's Going On" and "Windmills of Your Mind."
The Standard features guest appearances by veteran jazzmen George Benson, Al Jarreau, Jon Hendricks, Roy Hargrove, Till Brönner and others, as well as R&B luminaries Aaron Neville and Brian McKnight (Claude's brother).
Take 6 gives definitive vocal treatments to such jazz classics as "Sweet Georgia Brown," "Straighten Up and Fly Right" with vocalist/guitarist George Benson, "Someone to Watch Over Me" with trumpeter Roy Hargrove, and "Seven Steps to Heaven" with Jon Hendricks, Al Jarreau and German flugelhornist Till Brönner (featuring new lyrics by Jon Hendricks). The Standard's crowning glory is a version of "A-Tisket, A-Tasket," Ella Fitzgerald's signature song - created in the studio using her original vocal from the classic 1938 Decca Records 78.
Other highlights include "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans" with Aaron Neville, Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" with Brian McKnight, Quincy Jones' "Grace" and "Windmills of Your Mind" (from the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair).

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Bug Music: Music Of The Raymond Scott Quintette, John Kirby & His Orchestra, And The Duke Ellington Orchestra

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Artist(s):

Don Byron

Tracks:

The Dicty Glide - Don Byron, Ellington, Duke
Frasquita Serenade - Don Byron, Lehar, Franz
St. Louis Blues - Don Byron, Handy, W.C.
Wondering Where - Don Byron, Shavers, Charlie
Bounce of the Sugar Plum Fairy - Don Byron, Tchaikovsky, Pyotr
Charley's Prelude - Don Byron, Singer, Louis
Royal Garden Blues - Don Byron, Williams, Clarence
Siberian Sleighride - Don Byron, Scott, Raymond
The Penguin - Don Byron, Scott, Raymond
The Quintet Plays Carmen - Don Byron, Scott, Raymond
Powerhouse - Don Byron, Scott, Raymond
Tobacco Auctioneer - Don Byron, Scott, Raymond
War Dance for Wooden Indians - Don Byron, Scott, Raymond
Cotton Club Stomp - Don Byron, Ellington, Duke
Blue Bubbles - Don Byron, Ellington, Duke
Snibor - Don Byron, Strayhorn, Billy

When Duke Ellington began to slip classical motifs and structures into his jazz compositions in the '30s, two fellow composers took his example as a challenge to do the same. Raymond Scott played movie music, led the house band on the popular radio show, "Your Hit Parade," and supplied much of the music for Carl Stalling's famous cartoon scores; John Kirby led a jazz combo that included Ben Webster, Russell Procope and Charlie Shavers. All three bandleaders are saluted on Bug Music. The music inside is playful and joyful, with Byron's clarinet skipping and jumping through the catchy melodies and quirky rhythms. In fact, what's most striking about the recording is not the mix of jazz and classical music, but the mix of jazz and humor, an all too rare combination these days. --Geoffrey Himes

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Pure Ella: The Very Best of Ella Fitzgerald

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Artist(s):

Ella Fitzgerald

Tracks:

Mack the Knife - Ella Fitzgerald, Weill, Kurt
Blue Skies - Ella Fitzgerald, Berlin, Irving
A-Tisket, A-Tasket - Ella Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald, Ella
They Can't Take That Away from Me - Ella Fitzgerald, Gershwin, George
Misty - Ella Fitzgerald, Burke, Johnny [Voca
You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini) - Ella Fitzgerald, Coslow, Sam
Tea for Two - Ella Fitzgerald, Youmans, Vincent
Love Is Here to Stay - Ella Fitzgerald, Gershwin, George
Night and Day - Ella Fitzgerald, Porter, Cole
My Funny Valentine - Ella Fitzgerald, Rodgers, Richard
The Boy from Ipanema - Ella Fitzgerald, DeMoraes, Vinicius
Too Marvelous for Words - Ella Fitzgerald, Whiting, Richard
Take the "A" Train - Ella Fitzgerald, Strayhorn, Billy
Summertime - Ella Fitzgerald, Gershwin, George
How High the Moon - Ella Fitzgerald, Lewis, Morgan
All the Things You Are - Ella Fitzgerald, Kern, Jerome
Over the Rainbow - Ella Fitzgerald, Arlen, Harold
Oh, Lady Be Good - Ella Fitzgerald, Gershwin, George

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The Köln Concert

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Artist(s):

Keith Jarrett

Tracks:

Part I
Part II A
Part II B
Part II C

Limited edition Japanese pressing of the 1975 album comes packaged in an LP sleeve. ECM. 2005.

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Upojenie

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Artist(s):

Pat Metheny & Anna Maria Jopek

Tracks:

Cichy Zapada Zmrok - Pat Metheny, Traditional Evening
Mania Mienia - Pat Metheny, Metheny, Pat
Biel - Pat Metheny, Kydrynski, Marcin
Przyplyw, Odplyw, Oddech Czasu... - Pat Metheny, Metheny, Pat
Are You Going with Me? - Pat Metheny, Metheny, Pat
Czarne Slowa - Pat Metheny, Jopek, Anna Maria
Lulajze Jezuniu - Pat Metheny, Traditional Polish
Upojenie - Pat Metheny, Jopek, Anna Maria
Zupelnie Inna Ja - Pat Metheny, Metheny, Pat
Piosenka Dla Stasia - Pat Metheny, Kydrynski, Marcin
Letter from Home - Pat Metheny, Metheny, Pat
Me Jedyne Niebo - Pat Metheny, Metheny, Pat
By On Byl Tu - Pat Metheny, Metheny, Pat
Polskie Drogi - Pat Metheny, Kurylewicz, Andrzej
Tam, Gdzie Niesiega Wzrok (Follow Me) - Pat Metheny, Metheny, Pat
Na Calej Polaci Snieg - Pat Metheny, Wasowski, Jerzy
Szepty I Lzy - Pat Metheny, Kilar, Wojciech

The 2002 album Upojenie, now being released domestically for the first time, may be Pat Metheny's most unique and, for many listeners, least well-known project. The guitarist collaborates with popular Polish singer and keyboardist Anna Maria Jopek backed by a group of Polish musicians.

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The Orchard

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Artist(s):

Lizz Wright

Tracks:

Coming Home
My Heart
I Idolize You
Hey Mann
Another Angel
When I Fall
Leave Me Standing Alone
Speak Your Heart
This Is
Song For Mia
Thank You
Strange

Wright's collaboration with Craig Street continues on The Orchard. While her prior releases boasted contributions from some of the jazz world's most respected jazz players, The Orchard features an eclectic cast that includes noted singer/songwriter Toshi Reagon, who co-wrote several songs with Wright; Calexico members Joey Burns and John Convertino; avant-guitar hero Oren Bloedow; longtime Bob Dylan sideman Larry Campbell; Ollabelle member Glenn Patscha; and guest vocalists Catherine Russell and Marc Anthony Thompson (aka Chocolate Genius).

The Orchard's fluid, intimate performances reflect the unpretentious spirit in which the music was created. The project actually began with a set of photographs taken by Wright in her rural hometown, focusing on the orchard of the title, a setting that she's known since childhood.

That organic approach was maintained throughout the recording process, which took place at studios in upstate New York's Catskill mountains, in Tucson, Arizona and Brooklyn. The sessions emphasized spontaneity and chemistry.

That rare ability to exist within the musical moment is one of the qualities that make Lizz Wright a special artist and The Orchard a career milestone. "This record was a huge learning experience, in every way, and I think it showed me a lot about myself," she states. "I never would have imagined that I would have written some of the things I wrote on this record, or told some of these stories. But I felt really free and I really let myself go, and I surprised myself."

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Live A Village Vanguard

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Tracks:

Con Poco Coco
Sabor A Mí
Ritmando El Cha Cha Cha
Rosa Mustia
Andalucía
Siboney
Tres Palabras
Aquellos Ojos Verdes
Bilongo
Si Te Contara
Bebo´s Blues
Yesterdays
El Manisero
Waltz For Debby

Bebo Valdés is the last remaining giant from the Golden Age of Cuban music. In 1952 he recorded for American producer Norman Granz the first Cuban Jazz jam session in Havana. His big band, Sabor de Cuba, was one of the island's finest. Additionally, he was pianist for the Tropicana orchestra, and music consultant for the fabled cabaret. He performed on Nat King Cole's best-selling album Cole Español, and taught the American vocalist how to sing in Spanish. Mr. Valdés was the Quincy Jones of his day, writing charts for the island's top vocalists, including Olga Guillot, Rolando Laserie, Celeste Mendoza, Fernando Alvarez, Xiomara Alfaro, Celia Cruz, Pío Leyva and Beny Moré. Along with René Hernández, Chico O'Farrill and Pérez Prado, Mr. Valdés is widely considered to be one of mambo's signature arrangers. His own rhythm, batanga, featured the sacred Afro-Cuban batá drums for the first time in a big band setting, and was considered to be years ahead of its time.

Mr. Valdés left Cuba in 1960 and worked briefly in Mexico and Spain as music director for a variety of singers (Lucho Gatica) and labels (Hispavox), before touring Europe with The Havana Cuban Boys. It was on that tour, in 1963, that he met his current wife in Stockholm. He raised a family in Sweden and slowly faded from the limelight, touring the Arctic Circle and playing piano bars. It was Paquito D'Rivera who coaxed him back to the recording studio in 1994 for the comeback album, Bebo Rides Again, setting in motion one of the most remarkable third acts in music history.

Mr. Valdés was one of the featured artists in Fernando Trueba's 2000 Latin Jazz documentary, Calle 54, where he performed memorable duos with Cachao and son Chucho, of Irakere fame. While in New York, he recorded El Arte Del Sabor, which earned him his first two Grammys. Two years later came Lágrimas Negras, his million-selling record with Flamenco vocalist Diego "El Cigala". To date, Mr. Valdés has won a total of 7 Grammys (2 American and 5 Latin). His current U.S. release, Live At The Village Vanguard, recorded with Spanish bassist Javier Colina, is presently nominated for a Latin Grammy.

Mr. Valdés turned 90 on October 9th, 2008.

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